Centrify Professional Services Programs
Analyze - Design - Deploy - Operate
Although deploying the Centrify Suite on individual computers is a straightforward task, the challenges multiply as the deployment grows to enterprise scale. Most IT environments developed through organic growth and/or acquisition, and integrating diverse platforms and processes into an organization’s Active Directory management infrastructure requires a deep understanding of the technologies and processes involved.
Centrify also provides expert training programs that enable your IT staff to get up to speed quickly and get the most value out of Centrify's solutions
Click any of the course titles below for a synopsis of the class, or contact us for information on customized courses.
Architecture Design
Goal
Produce a comprehensive design specification that meets your business, technical and security requirements for the end state reached once DirectControl is deployed
Features
- Gather objectives and desired end-state
- Define Zone requirements
- Group Policy requirements
- Interaction of solution with Active Directory
- DNS changes required
- Time-synchronization
- Provisioning / de-provisioning processes
- Permissions / delegation of control model
- Application integration (DB2, Oracle, SAP, etc.)
Environment Analysis (Active Directory, UNIX & Network)
Goal
Produce a comprehensive requirements document that details the pre-requisites for deploying DirectControl
Features
- Determine existing UNIX authentication model
- Determine existing DNS infrastructure
- Examine AD topology – replication and site setup
- Examine network topology – firewalls, links etc.
Deployment and Migration Definition
Goal
Produce a comprehensive plan for deploying DirectControl and migrating accounts to Active Directory
Features
- Test planning / use cases
- Zone / delegation of control implementation
- Agent deploy process and other modules required
- Group Policy definition
- Import / provisioning processes
- Cutover processes
- Rollback / contingency
- Removal of obsolete authentication information
- UID rationalization
(UID rationalization is not required for the successful implementation of Centrify DirectControl due to our patent-pending Zone technology. This service is offered for those customers who have a need to perform UID rationalization due to other business/technical drivers outside of the DirectControl product.)
Centrify Suite Standard Edition Jump Start Service
Goal
Provide a jump start in the deployment and usage of the Centrify Suite Standard Edition.
Features
- 50% faster time to production — deployed on up to 50 systems in under three weeks with their users and groups migrated
- A consistent design with best practices and experiences of other customers
- Reduced management overhead
- A consistent, supportable implementation based on your existing business practices
- Reduced troubleshooting complexity
- A customized Design and Planning document for deploying the Centrify Suite Standard Edition in your environment
- A tracking mechanism for ongoing project management
- Software to help deploy the Centrify Suite Standard Edition and migrate users and groups
- Standard onsite training for the Centrify Suite Standard Edition + two online training seats
- Role-based training to assist in integrating the for the Centrify Suite Standard Edition with existing practices
Centrify DirectAudit Jump Start Service
Goal
Provide a jump start in the deployment and usage of DirectAudit.
Features
- 20% faster time to production
- A consistent design with best practices and experiences of other customers
- Reduced management overhead
- A consistent, supportable implementation based on your existing business practices
- Reduced troubleshooting complexity
- A customized Design and Planning document for deploying the DirectAudit product in your environment
- Checklist for installing DirectAudit on up to two platforms
- DirectAudit deployed on up to ten systems, no more than two different UNIX platforms, and up to two collectors in a lab or pilot