Centrify Corporation, a provider of unified identity services for data center, cloud, and mobile, has made available the latest version of the Centrify Suite security and compliance solution. Featuring new advanced privileged user management and auditing for Windows systems, as well as new “sudo” migration tools for Linux systems, Centrify Suite 2013 enables organizations to meet compliance requirements, mitigate risks from internal threats, and reduce operational costs across a set of cross-platform systems deployed on-premises and in the cloud.
In today’s heterogeneous IT environments, achieving security best practices and compliance by linking access privileges and actions to named users is a complex task. Managing user privileges for Windows, UNIX, and Linux systems can be difficult to implement since identities and privileges often reside in disparate silos or are managed locally system by system.
Centrify Suite 2013 offers an approach to identity management that includes integrated authentication, access control, privilege management, policy enforcement, and compliance – all based on a single, unified architecture that leverages Microsoft Active Directory. This eliminates the need for IT staff to install, configure, and manage multiple single-purpose products from a collection of other vendors.
WINDOWS PRIVILEGED MANAGEMENT
Centrify Suite 2013 now includes DirectAuthorize for Windows, an integrated solution that eliminates problems associated with too many users having broad and unmanaged administrative powers by delivering secure delegation of privileged access and granularly enforcing who can perform what administrative functions. Key features of DirectAuthorize for Windows include:
- Secure delegation of privileged administration for Windows Servers. DirectAuthorize eliminates wide-open privileges of Windows and Domain administrators and grants privileges to only the roles, rights, and resources required for each administrator’s job function. It also allows administrators to easily elevate privilege without having to re-enter passwords or know an administrative password.
- Granular authorization and enforcement of administrative functions. DirectAuthorize goes beyond capabilities found natively in Windows by time limiting privileges for any user, restricting the access rights of high-privilege roles to specific systems, services, or applications. It also delivers secure delegation using Centrify’s patented Zones technology that provides flexibility and granularity for administrative functions.
- Integration with user-level auditing. DirectAuthorize integrates with Centrify DirectAudit to add user-session capture, search, and playback, and can automatically trigger high-value session recording based on user, role, system, or privilege elevation.
In addition to the new Windows privilege management capabilities, Centrify Suite 2013 builds on its core capabilities to further empower organizations to easily migrate and manage identities and secure privileged user access across UNIX and Linux systems. New Linux- and UNIX-specific functionalities now available in Suite 2013 include:
- Centralized UNIX/Linux authorization with simple SUDO migration and SUDO replacement features. New import wizards automate the retrieval and import of sudoers’ files for centralized enforcement via the Centrify Suite.
- Enhanced user policy enforcement and administrative session audits. DirectAudit policies can now trigger auditing sessions for specific user, computer and DirectAuthorize roles.
- Additional UNIX and Linux platform support. Already supporting the most platforms in the industry, the new solution now supports more than 400 platforms, applications and devices, including new platforms such as Fedora 18; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8, 5.9 and 6.3; CentOS 5.8, 5.9 and 6.3; Scientific Linux 5.8, 5.9 and 6.3; Oracle Linux 6.3; Ubuntu 12.10; Linux Mint 13 and 14; Mandriva One 2012; and OpenSuSE 12.2 and 12.3.
PRICING AND AVAILABILITY
Centrify Suite 2013 is available today from Centrify and authorized partners worldwide. The Centrify Suite is licensed on a per server basis and starts at $385 per server and $65 per workstation.
For more information about the Centrify Suite and a five-minute demo of the new DirectAuthorize for Windows, visit www.centrify.com/suite. To request a free Centrify Suite 2013 trial, visit www.centrify.com/trial.
