Comprehensive suite of five

Centrify Express is a comprehensive suite of five, free Active Directory-based integration solutions providing authentication, single sign-on, remote access, file-sharing, and reporting for cross-platform systems deployed on premise or in the cloud. Compared to other free offerings, Centrify Express includes significantly more tools for quickly and easily integrating UNIX, Linux and Mac systems into a Windows environment and offers more advanced enterprise features to upgrade to. Centrify Express comprises: DirectControl Express for Active Directory-based authentication and single sign-on; DirectManage Express for centrally discovering and managing non-Windows systems, deploying Centrify software, and administering local Linux accounts; Centrify-enabled versions of OpenSSH, PuTTY and Samba for optimized remote access and file sharing leveraging Active Directory; Centrify Insight(TM), a Splunk-based application for integrating identity and access management with security information and event management, as then as providing operational intelligence regarding cross-platform systems; and Centrify Cloud Tools for securing Linux systems deployed in the cloud.

NEW: Centrify Cloud Tools Centrify is now delivering free software tools and guidance to help protect and secure cloud-based systems at launch time and to administer the security from Active Directory. Using Centrify Cloud Tools, IT managers can pre-configure cloud servers using Amazon AMI or RightScale ServerTemplates(TM) to dynamically apply authentication and access control policies to Linux cloud systems. At launch time, these servers can automatically join an Active Directory domain, configure and protect the root account, and ensure that a cloud server is as secure from unauthorized access as those in the data center. These capabilities include best practices documentation designed to help organizations adopt cloud computing more rapidly during mitigating the associated security risks. Should the contingency arise, DirectManage Express has as well been enhanced to support the cloud, enabling administrators to automatically discover their Linux systems that are deployed in the cloud and to seamlessly distribute the appropriate Centrify Express software to those cloud-based servers. For more information about Centrify Cloud Tools, see related press release issued today: "Centrify Introduces CloudTools for Active Directory-Based Access Control for Securing Linux Servers in the Cloud."