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Centrify Achieves Another Year of Record Sales Bookings and Accelerated Growth

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Centrify Corporation today announced that the company posted record total sales in calendar year 2011 and sales growth of 50 percent over the prior calendar year, while achieving profitability targets for the year.

Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School Deploys Centrify Solution to Manage School's Mac Users within Active Directory

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:00:00 GMT

The Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School (Columbia Prep) is leveraging its Centrify Suite solution to centralize all security and policy controls for its growing Macintosh student and faculty user populations. Now, Columbia Prep centrally controls access and manages preferences for its more than 450 Mac computers using the same methodology employed for its Windows systems — all in Active Directory.

Buckle up with Cybersecurity ... It's the Law

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Centrify CEO Tom Kemp, Forbes.com
State laws have been on the books for years regarding security breach notification. But newly enacted laws that tighten compliance requirements for data security as well as recent guidance from the SEC regarding disclosing cybersecurity risks and incidents is turning up the heat on companies to improve their security or face significant fines and lawsuits.

Mac attack

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Network World
One early problem was Active Directory integration. ... "We're actually looking at Centrify right now," Maples says. "Our biggest challenge now with the Mac is authentication, keeping account information synchronized and setting password policies." ... "We make the Mac machine a security peer to the Windows machine," says Centrify's Macintosh Product Manager Lance McAndrew. According to McAndrew, few large organizations are monolithic environments. In addition to running Windows, most also run Unix, Linux and, now, Macs.

DOJ Cybersecurity Conference

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Washington, DC
Feb 8

Federal Computer Week Identity Management Briefing

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Washington, DC
Feb 15

Options for Auditing Your Servers (and why Log File Monitoring is not enough)

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:59:00 GMT

In my last blog post I discussed the business reasons for auditing your server infrastructure. In this blog post I will walk you through various options to do auditing of servers, and some of the pros and cons of each.

The Business Case for Auditing Your Servers

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:59:00 GMT

It is interesting that when I talk to IT professionals and ask them about their security and compliance requirements for their server infrastructure that in some instances IT pros tell me that auditing their server infrastructure doesn't apply to their organization or they can kick the proverbial can down the road. I can understand that sentiment if their organization was a small-to-medium sized business that may not be a public company and have to deal with SOX, or not in a well regulated industry that has to deal with HIPAA or FERC/NERC, but when an larger organization that is in a regulated industry states that they don't need auditing on all their servers it seems a bit of evangelism is needed to get customers to realize that it is in their best interest to do so. I would also argue that this same evangelism should be considered by smaller organizations. In this blog post and a few others to follow I am going to talk a bit more about auditing, and in this one will discuss the business needs for auditing your servers.

Securing a Cloud Computing Architecture

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:00:00 GMT

This chalktalk begins by demystifying the terminology around cloud computing architectures and examines the types of enterprise projects that are most commmonly being deployed to the cloud. You'll then learn the advantages of a unique solution that leverages identity information and policy information inside your enterprise Active Directory to automate security and management of Linux-based cloud servers.

Introducing Centrify Express

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:00:00 GMT

Centrify Express is Centrify's free solution for Active Directory-based authentication and single sign-on to cross-platform systems. This chalktalk introduces the basic components of the Express suite, their features, and what makes them unique among other Active Directory integration solutions.

Centrify Enabled Samba

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Samba, one of the most popular Open Source technologies in use, allows IT administrators to share directories and files hosted on UNIX and Linux systems with Windows users. However, Samba can be difficult to deploy, and its inability to centrally store UNIX identity information in Active Directory makes it unworkable in most enterprise scenarios. This white paper describes how you can use Centrify DirectControl to make Samba more secure, more manageable, and enterprise ready.

FISMA Compliance through Centralized Identity and Access Management Leveraging Microsoft Active Directory

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT

The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) lays out a comprehensive set of security requirements that are currently top-of-mind for federal IT managers. FISMA addresses security issues in a comprehensive manner, covering everything from identity management to physical building security. This white paper focuses specifically on identity and access management (IAM) issues, using the guidance provided by NIST Special Publication 800-53, Revision 2, Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems, as a roadmap.

Go after a Large Market that Can Be Penetrated in a Cost-Effective Manner

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:59:00 GMT

Welcome back to my series on what I consider to be the "key DNA" elements that your product and company must have to be successful in the infrastructure software market. In this blog entry I talk about DNA element #4, which is: try to make sure that your product really plays in a large market that can be penetrated in a cost-effective manner.

Is it a Feature or a Product or a Mini-Platform?

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:59:00 GMT

Welcome to the third post in my Entrepreneurship in the Infrastructure Software Market (EISM) blog. In these initial set of postings I am blogging on what I think are some of the key DNA elements required to be successful in this market. As expected, luck of course is DNA element #1. In my last post I discussed DNA element #2, which is your solution must be considered by the customer as being "must have," and discussed the importance of vetting this well before full-blown development of your product has begun and really determining how likely customers would be willing to replace an existing piece of infrastructure for your solution. In this post I will discuss key DNA element #3, which is you should ensure that whatever infrastructure software solution that you build and release has the ability to morph fairly rapidly and easily beyond what can be perceived as a feature of the underlying platform and into something that can become a mini-platform unto itself.