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Simplified SSO for Web and ERP: Leveraging Active Directory-Based Single Sign-On to Address Security and Compliance for Web and Enterprise Applications

Featuring Perry Carpenter, Gartner Security and Privacy Expert

Part Three of the Three Part Expert Webinar Series
Strengthen IT Security and Enhance Compliance by Leveraging Microsoft Active Directory for Cross-Platform Identity and Access Management
Accountability is the cornerstone of secure and compliant IT environments. Organizations that cannot definitively link individual users' access to and activity on key systems risk security breaches or audit failures. The continuing spread of Linux, UNIX and Mac systems across the enterprise has increased the complexity and risk that IT organizations must manage given that UNIX/Linux identities may be managed system by system or with multiple directories. Many organizations are re-evaluating their identity and access management approaches.

Perry CarpenterThis webinar series features Gartner Analyst Perry Carpenter, who outlines best practices in identity and access management, and discusses the role Active Directory can play in centrally managing non-Windows systems and streamlining IT operations. The series also features Centrify solution experts who discuss and demonstrate how Centrify’s solutions are used to integrate heterogeneous systems with Active Directory to achieve significant security and compliance benefits.

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Simplified SSO for Web and ERP:
Leveraging Active Directory-Based Single Sign-On
to Address Security and Compliance for Web and
Enterprise Applications		 January 29, 2009
15:00 GMT
16:00 CET
(View the North American Webinar)
End-user access to web-based and enterprise applications like SAP is an area fraught with risk for organizations with complex, cross-platform environments. While the Active Directory account of an exiting employee may be de-provisioned quickly to cut off access to email and VPN, entitlements to intranets, HR or finance applications, partner portals, and other applications may not be disabled for hours, days — or ever. In addition, end-users are often frustrated trying to manage multiple accounts and passwords, helpdesk resources are drained doing account resets.

Join this event to gain a better understanding of the advantages of implementing web and enterprise application single sign-on. Learn why tying entitlements to web, enterprise and B2B applications to Active Directory accounts is a simple, cost-effective, and highly reliable method of addressing IT security best practices and regulatory compliance.

Perry Carpenter, Gartner Analyst will examine:
  • The security drivers and business challenges associated with managing entitlements for web and enterprise applications in large, heterogeneous environments.
  • How application access must be managed to meet regulatory requirements and conform to best security practices.
  • The important role Active Directory can play as the central identity store in complex, cross-platform environments.

Corey Williams, Centrify Director of Product Management will describe:
  • Centrify DirectControl’s Kerberos/LDAP support for intranet single sign-on, and ADFS/SAML support for extranet single sign-on.
  • How DirectControl leverages Active Directory infrastructure to support web application platforms such as Apache, WebSphere, WebLogic and JBoss, and ERP apps like SAP.
  • The benefits of centrally managing and enforcing passwords and policies that enable single sign-on, including increased end-user satisfaction and reduced helpdesk incidents.
  • How DirectControl provides a cost-effective solution to identity federation in partner ecosystems.

You will also receive two complimentary white papers. One covers SSO and Federation for Java/Web. The other covers SAP SSO on UNIX/Linux.

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