Industry Alliances

Enterprise Desktop Alliance

Centrify is a founding member of the Enterprise Desktop Alliance, a collaboration among enterprise-class software developers to make it easy to deploy, integrate and manage Macs in a sophisticated Windows-managed IT environment. By leveraging the suite of capabilities that EDA offers, an enterprise can easily achieve the same level of control, security, policy compliance, data protection and services that they exercise across Windows platforms. The cross-platform solutions available address Enterprise Data Protection – Atempo; Identity & Access Management – Centrify; File & Print Services – Group Logic; Systems Lifecycle Management – LANrev; and Virtualization – Parallels.

Group Policy Task Force

Centrify is a member of the Group Policy Task Force, an industry organization whose mission is to help promote common standards in Active Directory Group Policy.

Interop Vendor Alliance

The Interop Vendor Alliance is a cross-industry group of information technology vendors established to enhance interoperability with Microsoft systems. Centrify is one of the first members of the Interop Vendor Alliance. Participating in the alliance will help Centrify respond to our mutual customers' needs and make it straightforward for them to see the many ways the vendor community can help them manage a heterogeneous environment, strengthen their security, and streamline their IT administration.

"Customers need to be able to operate their businesses smoothly in a heterogeneous IT environment. The Interop Vendor Alliance was created to address this need. We look forward to having Centrify join the Alliance, bringing their expertise in identity management and access control integration to bear on the problem of interoperability."

Sam Rosenbalm
Business Development Manager
Developer and Platform Evangelism Grou
Microsoft Corporation

MIT Kerberos Consortium

The MIT Kerberos Consortium is intended to provide a mechanism by which the numerous organizations that have adopted Kerberos in the last two decades may participate in the continuation of what was previously funded as an internal MIT project. By opening participation in the ongoing Kerberos effort, it will be possible to expand the scope of the work currently performed to encompass numerous important improvements in the Kerberos system, and to engage in much needed evangelism among potential adopters. Centrify has joined Apple, Google, Microsoft, Sun and other organizations as a founding member of the consortium.

Payment Card Industry Security Vendor Alliance

The Payment Card Industry Security Vendor Alliance (PCI SVA) assists members of the payment card industry, composed of merchants, banks and point-of-sale vendors, in educating the business community on the requirements and business value of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard, a global benchmark intended to improve security throughout the entire payment card transaction process.

SecureIT Alliance

Centrify is a founding member of the SecureIT Alliance, a community of industry partners that are working together to provide security solutions for the Micrsoft platform. The SecureIT Alliance members are collaborating together to build innovative new security features and products to address the needs of the industry and of our mutual customers. In contribution to the alliance, Centrify is focused on helping define how non-Windows platforms can better integrate with Microsoft's security infrastructure.

"Centrify's participation represents an important contribution to the SecureIT Alliance for their focus on extending the benefits of Active Directory security throughout customers' heterogeneous IT infrastructures."

Bruce Burns
Senior Director
Microsoft Corporation