Centrify provides the only solution that easily integrates multiple Unix-Linux identities into Active Directory without intrusive changes to your Active Directory and Unix/Linux infrastructures.

Identify
Consolidate all user accounts into the directory you already own: Microsoft Active Directory.
Simplify
Eliminate multiple identity stores and administer your entire environment from a single, familiar interface.
Centrify
Provide end users with single sign-on and enforce global password and other security policies.

Corporate Overview

Centrify delivers the only seamlessly integrated solution that comprehensively extends Microsoft Active Directory's identity, access and policy management services to your Unix, Linux, Java and web platforms. Centrify DirectControl is quick and easy to deploy, does not require costly or intrusive changes to existing systems, and uniquely integrates your multiple Unix/Linux identities into Active Directory. With Centrify, you can now fully leverage Active Directory to significantly reduce administrative costs, strengthen security, and improve end-user productivity.

Centrify was founded in March 2004 by Tom Kemp, our Chief Executive Officer and a former co-founder of NetIQ, and is led by a team of senior executives and technical managers from industry leaders such as NetIQ, Microsoft, Computer Associates, Novell, Netscape and others. Headquartered in Mountain View , California , Centrify is a privately held company with venture backing by two of Silicon Valley 's top venture capital firms, Mayfield and Accel Partners . Our technology partners include Microsoft, VMWare, Hewlett-Packard, and Sun Microsystems.

Centrify DirectControl Suite Overview

The Centrify DirectControl suite extends Microsoft Active Directory's identity, access and policy management services to your Unix, Linux, Java and web platforms. Centrify DirectControl is the only solution that enables you to quickly integrate multiple Unix and Linux identities without requiring intrusive changes to your Active Directory or Unix/Linux infrastructure. Our seamlessly integrated solution enables you to fully leverage Active Directory to significantly reduce administrative costs, strengthen security and improve end-user productivity.

Centrify DirectControl's Features and Benefits

The Centrify DirectControl suite lets you quickly and flexibly extend Microsoft Active Directory to non-Windows platforms and applications, giving you a single directory and single point of administration from which to manage your Windows, Unix, Linux, Java and web environment. And it does so without requiring intrusive changes to your Active Directory or Unix/Linux infrastructure.

Features and Benefits at a Glance

• Move to a Single Directory and Single Point of Administration
• Maximize Your Investment in Active Directory
• Quickly and Flexibly Integrate Multiple Unix and Linux Identities
• Deploy without Intrusive Changes to Active Directory
• Apply Consistent Global Password and Security Policies
• Enable Single Sign-On Across Mixed Environments
• Simplify Compliance with Regulatory Requirements
• Set up Unix/Linux Zones of Access

Features and Benefits

Move to a Single Directory and Single Point of Administration

DirectControl lets you manage and secure your Windows, Unix and Linux systems and applications from a single solution -- Active Directory. You can streamline IT operations and reduce expense by:

• Consolidating all user identities into Active Directory: one user, one account, one directory.
• Eliminating redundant identity stores, including legacy directories, dedicated application databases and locally managed /etc/passwd files.
• Avoiding the need to purchase expensive third-party synchronization products or to try building and maintaining your own.

Maximize Your Investment in Active Directory

Active Directory is already a permanent, strategic platform that you currently use to manage key infrastructure features such as email. With DirectControl:

• Your existing Active Directory investment delivers its full potential, providing you a cost-effective way to manage the rest of your enterprise.
• The benefits of future investments in Active Directory now flow efficiently to your entire organization.

Quickly and Flexibly Integrate Multiple Unix and Linux Identities

In many large organizations, a single employee may have one Active Directory account for email and five or more accounts and passwords for various Unix and Linux servers, or for the Java and web applications running on them. Only Centrify enables you to associate a single Active Directory account with multiple Unix or Linux identities.

Deploy without Intrusive Changes to Active Directory

Only Centrify offers you the ability to:

• Manage your Unix and Linux environment without extending your Active Directory schema.
• Integrate your Unix and Linux infrastructure with Active Directory without installing additional software on domain controllers.

Apply Consistent Global Password and Security Policies

Until now, applying consistent password policies across a mixed environment was virtually impossible. Centrify enables you to:

• Enforce Active Directory's requirements for password complexity and expiration in your Unix, Linux, Java and web environments. When users' passwords expire, they are prompted to change them regardless of whether they are logging into a Windows system, a Linux server, or a web application.
• Eliminate the risks posed by orphan accounts by quickly and reliably disabling the account of employees leaving the company. Disabling their single Active Directory account effectively disables access everywhere. You do not need to chase down other accounts in other directories, databases, or local /etc/passwd files.
• Use Active Directory's logging features to identify dormant and obsolete accounts.

Enable Single Sign-On Across Mixed Environments

Centralized access through Active Directory means that you can provide end-users a single sign-on account that gives them transparent access to all systems and applications. You can redirect valuable help desk time to value-add projects now that more productive users spend less time managing accounts and less time calling your help desk for password assistance.

Simplify Compliance with Regulatory Requirements

A growing body of government regulations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA, require that you have a reliable means for verifying who has access to what systems and applications. With Centrify you have:

• A single, centralized point of administration from which you can reliably control access to systems and applications.
• DirectControl's built-in reporting, which enables you to document a user's access to systems and applications.

Set up Unix/Linux Zones of Access

Centrify's unique, patent-pending Zone technology also gives you the flexibility to create management groups for your Unix and Linux computers. Grouping Unix/Linux computers into Zones enables you to:

• Control access to systems for users and groups based on their roles or other criteria.
• Dynamically provision accounts on Unix/Linux systems.