What the Press Says About Centrify

Excerpts from journalists, analysts, customers and industry observers

Here's what industry publications and analysts have to say about Centrify. Also check our Customer Success Stories for a sampling of what our customers say about the value of our solutions.

09/02/2010
Active Directory Based Authentication for Linux and Mac
Showing My Geek
The Centrify Express is free and accomplishes exactly what I was looking for. If you want to integrate Active Directory authentication into your Linux, Unix, or Mac machines check out Centrify Express.
08/30/2010
VMworld: Centrify Automates Cloud Security with Active Directory
The Var Guy
Centrify is the latest company trying to make some noise at this week's VMworld conference in San Francisco. Specifically, Centrify is delivering a new "automated cloud security" suite of solutions that will centralize cloud server control using Microsoft's Active Directory. Here's the details...
08/27/2010
Centrify's Got a Cure for the Cloud Security Blues
Sys-con.com
Security is a prime impediment to cloud adoption, right? Right. Well, Centrify has this idea: Suppose it turns any company's venture into the cloud into a lock-box - sealed off from the nasties - if anything dastardly happens the user has only its own staff to blame. That way companies won't be forfeiting their soul simply to take advantage of the cloud's siren's song about cheap price points.
08/03/2010
Centrify Announces Free Security Apps, Tools
NetworkWorld
Centrify recently announced a set of free apps and tools, content resources and community forums which, according to PR virtuoso Bryan Grillo, are "designed to improve security and compliance of data center and desktop systems." This now means, again according to Grillo, that "businesses of all sizes can leverage Microsoft Active Directory (AD) to establish a single sign-on experience for Linux and Mac users."
07/23/2010
Integrating with Active Directory for Free
CTOEdge
Centrify is now giving away Centrify Express, a tool for integrating Linux and Macintosh systems with Active Directory. The free offering is a subset of the company’s Centrify suite of identity management and access management software that the company wants to deliver for free in the hopes of raising more awareness about the potential of Active Directory as an identity management platform.
07/23/2010
First New York Securities Turns to TekVault to Manage Growth of Linux
TekVault Corporation a regulatory compliance consultancy and service provider was chosen by First New York Securities, a premier principal trading firm headquartered in New York City, to provide the Centrify DirectControl and DirectAuthorize suite to help them manage and secure their fast growing Linux environment.
07/22/2010
Centrify Releases New, Free Mac and Linux Integration Toolkit for Active Directory
ZDNet.com
Windows management vendor Centrify this week released Centrify Express, its new integration package for Windows Active Directory services.
07/22/2010
Centrify Express Connects Macs, Linux To Active Directory
Informationweek.com
The new, free software from the identity and access management vendor gives Mac and Linux users single sign-on to Microsoft Active Directory services.
07/19/2010
Centrify Express: Active Directory for Linux And Mac OS X
MSPmentor.net
If you're an MSP managing a mix of computing platforms in your customer environments, you might want to look at Centrify Express. It offers free Active Directory integration for Linux and Macintosh computers.
06/29/2010
Centrify Selected by Savvis
TradingMarkets.com
Centrify has been selected by cloud infrastructure and hosting company Savvis Inc (Nasdaq: SVVS | PowerRating) to enhance the security of the Savvis Symphony Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC).
06/08/2010
Comparing Access Control in Windows and Linux
NetworkWorld
What can we learn from Linux about access control?
05/21/2010
Budget-Savvy Security: Get More Than What You Paid For By Maximizing Your Budget
Processor.com
Whether a security plan succeeds or fails is largely tied to how a company makes use of its budget. Poor budgetary decisions and bad investments can quickly lead to insufficient security. So how can data center and IT managers be confident that they are making the right investments in security? What areas of security budgets can be improved? What budget tweaks can provide managers the most bang for their bucks? The measure of your security budget success, according to Frank Cabri, vice president of marketing and business development at Centrify, is that your data center is never compromised.
02/12/2010
Centrify Adds Ability to Manage Machine Identities and 'Trusted' Communications
The 451 Group
Centrify has released its Centrify Suite 2010 that incorporates a unified discovery, user management and administration management tool called DirectManage. [Registration Required].
02/12/2010
Centrify: Active Directory Meets UNIX and Linux
TheVarGuy.com
There’s a few players in the arena right now for getting your UNIX and Linux boxes to play nice with Microsoft Active Directory, but Centrify wants your attention. They take securing your network seriously but do it with what claims to be a simple solution that VARs and MSPs might want to take note at, especially if you’re a VAR setting up and managing data centers.
02/11/2010
Centrify Encrypts Trusted System Traffic
CTOEdge
Centrify wants to create an additional layer of security between trusted machines in the enterprise.
02/11/2010
Apple in the Enterprise Bobs to the Surface at Macworld
eWeek.com
The growth of employee choice when selecting a work laptop is bringing Apple MacBooks into the enterprise with the result that vendors are creating more deployment, management and even anti-malware tools for Mac hardware including the iPhone. Macworld is still dominated by high value content creation tools and carrying cases for various and sundry Apple products. Even so, enterprise class tools are moving up in a world dominated by consumer add-ons.
02/10/2010
Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Makes DirectAccess Feasible
eWeek.com
For companies looking to deploy encryption end-to-end—all the way from the remote client through to the intranet server—getting UAG DirectAccess to work with non-Microsoft servers will likely be more complicated. However, third-party software maker Centrify in February will introduce DirectSecure, which promises to extend end-to-end DirectAccess connectivity and security to Unix and Linux servers.
01/14/2010
Centrify Integrates DirectControl for Mac OS X with McAfee ePO platform
MacsimumNews.com
Centrify announced that Centrify DirectControl for Mac OS X has achieved McAfee Compatible status under the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance partner program.

And when RIM calculated ROI for an internally developed application [to authenticate Red Hat, Solaris and HP systems through Active Directory], systems architect Ian Brown said it became evident that it would be too challenging and expensive. What RIM needed, he decided, was a third-party application that worked out of the box. He said they found it in Mountain View, Calif.-based Centrify Corp.'s DirectControl. "Obviously RIM is a publicly traded company, so when the SOX auditors were looking at the access control to our systems, [we] were already covered with Centrify," Brown said. "Essentially, we could just print off a DirectControl report and say these people had access to this Linux system and when." With DirectControl, Brown could instantaneously produce this login documentation. He could then correlate that information to any maintenance ticket ever generated at RIM. Before DirectControl, Brown estimated his staff of six spent dozens of hours each week on local server administration - work they now complete in seconds.

Jack Loftus
SearchEnterpriseLinux
March 20, 2007