Centrify Suite 2012 Promises Unmatched Control and Auditing over

Centrify Corporation, a leading name in security and compliance solutions provisions that permit central control, secure and audit cross-platform systems and applications using Active Directory, recently announced the general availability of Centrify Suite 2012, their latest release of its security and compliance solution that is being used by around 3,500 organizations currently. Centrify Suite 2012 delivers inventive, fresh, enterprise-class capabilities that aid centralized privilege access management and audit user session activity thereby increasing security and compliance of cloud and on-premise systems.

These new features available in Centrify Suite 2012 will help enterprises easily centralize identities to cross-platform systems and establish secure, privileged user access spanning UNIX, Linux and Mac environments. As an integrated solution, Centrify Suite 2012 consists of DirectControl 5.0, DirectAuthorize 2.0, DirectManage 5.0, DirectAudit 2.0 and DirectSecure 1.2. It allows for a secure authentication, single sign-on, privileged access management and user session auditing for the broadest set of platforms and applications.

In a release, Scott Griffith, Senior UNIX Administrator at Consolidated Communications (News - Alert) said, "We have high end servers and databases running finance and HR applications, and we need to secure and audit access to them in order to stay compliant with SOX. Centrify simplifies manual processes and centralizes our authentication through Active Directory. With Centrify Suite 2012, the enhanced Zones capabilities allows us to easily automate the assignment of access privileges based on roles, so individuals get only the appropriate level of access that they need for their job function. Centrify Suite 2012 also audits and reports on all user and role-based activity, allowing us to show that we are on top of things which makes it a lot smoother during our audit reviews."

Among its other new specialized features, the Centrify Suite 2012 has Hierarchical Zones and Computer Roles that allow for it to be easily scaled up as a solution for consolidating complex UNIX and Linux identity environments into Active Directory, and ideally managing relationships between users, groups and computer roles in a cross-platform system environment. Also possible is the ability to extend DirectAudit's historic focus of delivering user session auditing of UNIX and Linux systems to also include complete full fidelity capture of Windows sessions.

Neil MacDonald, Gartner (News - Alert) Vice President and Fellow said that "The majority of successful security breaches are caused through some type of administrative mistake. Centrally managing access control for cross-platform systems across various silos simplifies security and compliance efforts and reduces the chance for misconfiguration. Organizations need consistent, centralized access policies across their physical and virtualized systems as well as private and public cloud computing environments."

Centrify Suite 2012 is available from Centrify and authorized partners internationally. The Centrify Suite is licensed on a per server basis and begins at $385 per server and $65 per workstation.