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IT Security & Compliance

Federal Cloud Security: Securing Cloud Systems with Active Directory and Centrify Suite

Register today for this on-demand webcast to learn about access and identity management in today's federal environment and why it's important to centralize identities and unify access management for cloud security and data consolidation.

Implementing Virtual Security Cameras to Protect Privileged Access and Enforce Accountability

Jeremy's predicament — He is an IT admin and a critical server he manages has been breached! Jeremy's co-workers and manager consider him suspect number one. But wait, IT security has recently installed a new auditing solution that will clear Jeremy's name or send him packing...watch this video to learn how Jeremy cleared his name.

Getting Federal Data Center Consolidation Right the First Time: Successful Strategies for Identity, Security & Auditing

The on-going efforts to reform Federal IT are focused on consolidation of data centers across Civilian and Defense Agencies. In the process Federal IT leaders hope to promote shared services and cloud computing models. Regardless of their location, systems and applications need to be secured, controlled and audited for compliance. Clearly, data center consolidation success requires centralization of identities on UNIX, Linux and Mac OS X systems in order to achieve compliance and enable shared services.

European Banking Compliance Complexity: A Strategy for Slaying the Beast

European Banks and other Financial Services firms are faced every day with complex and prescriptive IT compliance regulations from every level of government and industry. Compliance, Security and IT Operations professionals have responded by creating internal 'audit points' to improve visibility into their operations. But these teams are challenged by the separate and fractured identity and access management silos that create gaps in security, make compliance difficult and IT operations inefficient.

Five Steps to Securing Cloud Servers

Many organizations are facing a Catch-22 when it comes to migrating applications to the cloud. They get the biggest ROI by moving business-critical apps that need to scale rapidly and on-demand. But these are precisely the applications that need the tightest security controls. Executive management is pressing for progress on cost savings, but sorting through the variety of security issues unique to cloud environments can be dauntingly complex. The solution is to break the process of securing cloud servers into a set of well defined, achievable steps that enable IT organizations to securely extend their existing enterprise infrastructure out into their cloud environment. In this free webinar, we will initially discuss the key requirements for securing cloud systems. David McNeely, senior director of product management at Centrify, will then present a five-step process, using Amazon EC2 as an example, for automating provisioning of security policies, centralizing account and privilege management, hardening network access, auditing systems, and implementing enterprise-centric single sign-on. Uri Budnik, ISV Program Director at RightScale, will describe how RightScale's ServerTemplate and RightScripts can be used to achieve the automated provisioning and system lockdown.

Managing the Fractured Data Center: Extending Enterprise Identity into the Cloud

There may be no greater hot-button topic in IT than Cloud Computing. Chief among the many challenges for infosecurity practitioners is integrating and enforcing an organization’s identities and their associated security policies beyond the traditional data center. This problem becomes even more worrisome given the regulatory climate and audit pressures surrounding identity and access management. Join Centrify and this prestigious panel of experts to learn more about the security strategies being pursued by world-class companies to ensure their systems are secure in dynamic cloud environments.

Cloud-based Servers: Getting Security and Compliance Right the First Time

Organizations moving their IT resources to the cloud are finding it a challenge to maintain the same security posture in their virtual environments that they have adopted in their physical data centers. Cloud platforms like VMware vCloud and Amazon EC2 enable the quick and easy creation of servers in response to end-user demand. In such dynamic environments, IT security and compliance managers need an automated method for consistently provisioning user accounts and privileges and enforcing system security policies. Other unique challenges include: isolating groups of servers for compliance reasons, protecting data as it moves across the public network, and auditing user activity on off-premise, virtual systems.

Solving the PCI Puzzle: Putting the Access Control, Privilege Management, and Server Protection Pieces Together (with Security Expert Dr. Eugene Schultz)

Complying with PCI regulations in heterogeneous environments can be a complex and costly initiative. Leveraging your existing IT infrastructure offers a simpler and cost-effective way to address the sections of the Payment Card Industry's Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) that matter most to IT managers - without sacrificing manageability and productivity. Join our panel of experts for an informative webinar to learn how you can address the regulatory requirements of the PCI standards by linking all your access rights, privileges, and audit logs into a single, definitive Active Directory identity.

The 60-Minute IT Compliance Formula (with Security Expert Rolf von Roessing)

Most security experts will tell you that the formula for success in passing regulatory compliance audits can be complex and expensive - but how complex and expensive is it really? Join us for an educational and insightful hour-long webinar in which our panel of experts will explain how requirements such as PCI DSS, Sarbanes-Oxley, FISMA and others can be broken down into their constituent parts and each element tackled with commonsense principles.

Centrify Security Solutions for PCI Compliance

Learn how Centrify helps corporate IT security managers address the key provisions of Sections 7, 8 and 10 of the PCI Data Security Standard for their UNIX and Linux systems.

Implementing Least-Privilege Security Management in Complex Linux and UNIX Environments (with Security Expert Dr. Eugene Schultz)

Examines the challenges around tying entitlements to individuals instead of to root or generic accounts, explains why existing tools such as sudo fall short in complex environments, and shows the value of leveraging Active Directory's centrally managed identities and its rich group- and role-based management capabilities.

Addressing the Unique IT Security Risks Posed by the Virtual Data Center

Virtualization technology is becoming not only increasingly ubiquitous but also increasingly heterogeneous in nature as organizations deploy bare-metal hypervisors from vendors such as VMware and Citrix. Meanwhile, organizations are also leveraging virtualization technology built into the latest UNIX, Linux and Windows operating systems. In this free webinar, top industry experts will help you understand the unique security and management requirements, as well as the risks, organizations will encounter as they migrate from the physical to virtual data center.

FISMA Compliance in Cross-Platform Environments

In this on-demand webinar learn how to address FISMA's four main IT security requirements by centralizing identity and access management leveraging Active Directory.

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

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.

Beyond Authentication: Using Centrify DirectAuthorize for Fine-Grained Access Control and Privilege Management on UNIX & Linux

Join this event to learn why setting access controls and authorizations centrally from Active Directory accounts is a simple, cost-effective, and highly reliable method of addressing IT security best practices and regulatory compliance.

Beyond Logging: Addressing Security and Compliance with Detailed Audit Trails Linked to Active Directory

Join this event to learn about best practices in cross-platform auditing and compliance, and how Centrify's Active Directory-centric solution, DirectAudit, addresses these important issues.

Enhancing Compliance and Troubleshooting with Detailed Auditing and Session Replay for UNIX and Linux

Centrify's Director of Product Management, David McNeely, reviews the auditing and troubleshooting challenges that today's heterogeneous enterprises face, and will demonstrate how Centrify's DirectAudit provides a next-generation solution that's secure, scalable and reliable. Register for this webcast now, and we'll also email you a copy of our free white paper, "Implementing Detailed User-Level Auditing of UNIX and Linux Systems Using Centrify DirectAudit."

Securing Access to UNIX, Linux and Mac with Active Directory

Need a way to centralize account administration without removing the security boundaries that naturally exist around your business systems? Join David McNeely, Centrify's Director of Product Management, in this webinar as he shows you how to prove "who has access to what" when the security auditors come knocking.

UNIX & Linux Identity Management

Ubuntu for the Enterprise: Five Steps to Ensure Successful Adoption

In this free webinar jointly sponsored by Canonical and Centrify, you’ll learn how many organizations are enabling the broader deployment of Ubuntu by integrating it into their existing Active Directory infrastructure and management processes. By using Centrify’s Canonical-certified solution, they can go beyond simply offering transparent sign-on to Ubuntu systems and can in addition deliver on five key requirements for enterprise deployments.

Integrating Linux on System z Environments into Active Directory with Centrify Suite (cohosted by Red Hat)

In this Centrify/Red Hat webinar, you will learn how to: centrally manage Linux users from Active Directory; configure Linux using Group Policy; and implement role-based access controls and privilege management.

Implementing Least-Privilege Security Management in Complex Linux and UNIX Environments (with Security Expert Dr. Eugene Schultz)

Examines the challenges around tying entitlements to individuals instead of to root or generic accounts, explains why existing tools such as sudo fall short in complex environments, and shows the value of leveraging Active Directory's centrally managed identities and its rich group- and role-based management capabilities.

Leveraging Your Windows Active Directory Infrastructure to Provide Centralized Identity Management for UNIX, Linux and Mac Systems

Researching the feasibility of leveraging your Active Directory infrastructure to centralize identity management for UNIX, Linux and Mac systems? In this podcast, senior Burton analyst Mark Diodati interviews Centrify's David McNeely on the technical and business reasons for using Active Directory to manage more of your enterprise. Diodati shares some of Burton's findings on the reasons why their customers are looking for Active Directory integration solutions. McNeely explains Centrify's recommendations for a successful integration project. They also discuss leveraging Active Directory's rich group- and role-based management capabilities for fine-grained privilege management of UNIX/Linux systems.

Beyond Authentication: Using Centrify DirectAuthorize for Fine-Grained Access Control and Privilege Management on UNIX & Linux

Join this event to learn why setting access controls and authorizations centrally from Active Directory accounts is a simple, cost-effective, and highly reliable method of addressing IT security best practices and regulatory compliance.

NIS Migration and Management

Enhancing security and streamlining IT processes by replacing your legacy NIS infrastructure with centralized authentication and access control leveraging Microsoft Active Directory

Five Top Benefits of Using Windows Group Policy to Secure and Manage UNIX, Linux and Mac Systems

In this on-demand webinar, Linux, UNIX and Mac admins get an overview of how Group Policy works from Jeremy Moskowitz, author of authoritative works on both Windows Group Policy and Windows/Linux integration. Centrify's David McNeely will then explain the workings of the Group Policy engine that is seamlessly built into DirectControl and the unique benefits of using it for non-Windows policy enforcement. He'll also demonstrate using Windows Group Policy to lock down user and security settings on a Mac desktop system.

Active Directory Authentication for Non-Windows Systems

Centrify CTO Paul Moore and CEO Tom Kemp are featured in this on-demand video interview on Port25, Microsoft's public forum run by its Open Source Software lab. During that interview, Moore conducts an extensive whiteboard session to explain what it takes to authenticate UNIX and Linux systems using Active Directory. In a followup audio podcast, Moore returned to answer questions raised by viewers of the first event.

Mac Desktop Management

Snow Leopard Integration in the Enterprise

Moving to Snow Leopard? Windows Server 2008? Enterprise Desktop Alliance solutions can make the transition smooth for you and your Mac users. Find out how in our webcast: "Snow Leopard Integration in the Enterprise." You'll hear from member companies who make it easy to deploy Snow Leopard and to integrate and manage Macs in a cross-platform environment.

Centralized Mac Home Directories on Windows Servers

The Enterprise Desktop Alliance wants you to attend a new webinar about how your customers can reduce the costs of managing and administering Mac home directories by using Group Logic's ExtremeZ-IP Server and Centrify DirectControl for Mac OS X to deploy them on Windows servers. This webinar is a technical deep dive into how to set up ExtremeZ-IP and Centrify DirectControl to configure DFS-based home directories for Mac users. You'll see how to maintain the Mac client's ability to use its native AFP protocol to talk to the Windows server and how you can rely on Active Directory to manage access.

Integrating the Mac into a Windows Infrastructure - 5 Case Studies

The Enterprise Desktop Alliance wants you to attend a new webinar to help IT professionals learn how to integrate Macs into their Windows environment. Please join us to discover how organizations like yours are getting more from their Mac installations without increasing their overhead.

Simplifying Mac Smart Card Support in Windows Environments

In this on-demand webinar see how easy it is to integrate Macs with smart cards into an Active Directory domain.

Leveraging Your Windows Active Directory Infrastructure to Provide Centralized Identity Management for UNIX, Linux and Mac Systems

Researching the feasibility of leveraging your Active Directory infrastructure to centralize identity management for UNIX, Linux and Mac systems? In this podcast, senior Burton analyst Mark Diodati interviews Centrify's David McNeely on the technical and business reasons for using Active Directory to manage more of your enterprise. Diodati shares some of Burton's findings on the reasons why their customers are looking for Active Directory integration solutions. McNeely explains Centrify's recommendations for a successful integration project. They also discuss leveraging Active Directory's rich group- and role-based management capabilities for fine-grained privilege management of UNIX/Linux systems.

Enterprise Desktop Alliance Webinar

Learn how the Enterprise Desktop Alliance solutions leverage Windows-based administration tools and procedures to manage Macs in enterprise environments.

Five Top Benefits of Using Windows Group Policy to Secure and Manage UNIX, Linux and Mac Systems

In this on-demand webinar, Linux, UNIX and Mac admins get an overview of how Group Policy works from Jeremy Moskowitz, author of authoritative works on both Windows Group Policy and Windows/Linux integration. Centrify's David McNeely will then explain the workings of the Group Policy engine that is seamlessly built into DirectControl and the unique benefits of using it for non-Windows policy enforcement. He'll also demonstrate using Windows Group Policy to lock down user and security settings on a Mac desktop system.

Deploying Macs in the Enterprise

In enterprises large and small, IT managers are increasingly adopting Microsoft Active Directory-based administration tools and procedures to manage their environments. While there are several solutions for authenticating Macs through Active Directory, corporate security, regulatory compliance, and TCO concerns represent additional thorny challenges to Mac adoption. In this free webinar, top industry experts explain what IT managers need to know in order to deploy Macs securely and manage them efficiently within an Active Directory environment.

SAP and Web Single Sign-On

Understanding Single Sign-On for UNIX/Linux-based Web Applications

In this free webinar, SSO expert Professor John Walker of ISACA will help you identify the “low-hanging SSO fruit” in your enterprise and will arm you with the business case you need to justify a lightweight SSO project. And Corey Williams of Centrify will provide the proof of concept by walking you through the simple steps required to join a UNIX or Linux host system to Microsoft Active Directory and configure the application for SSO using end-users’ existing Windows credentials.

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

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.

Take the Pain Out of Single Sign-On for SAP on UNIX/Linux

Strengthen security and eliminate end-user frustration with non-intrusive, Active Directory-centric single sign-on for SAP

Secure, Cost-Effective Implementation of Web and Java Application SSO

Leverage Active Directory for secure and cost-effective single sign-on and federation for Apache, WebLogic, JBoss and WebSphere applications

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