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Article: Making Microsoft Support Linux: Centrify To Compete with Vintela 

"Centrify, which was started 10 months ago by Tom Kemp, the co-founder of hotshot security management house NetIQ, is about to come out from under the covers and expects to compete with Netegrity and Oblix as well as Vintela for the identity and access management crown mindful of the fact that identity management is a top security challenge for the IT establishment these days"

"It's got software - called the Centrify DirectControl suite - that makes Microsoft's Active Directory (AD) cross-platform and seamlessly extends real-time AD authorization, authentication and Group Policy capabilities to Linux and Unix as well as J2EE and applications servers such as Apache and JBoss.

It will reportedly make them all live in a happy nirvana of single sign-on by centralizing all user accounts in Active Directory, and strengthen security by enforcing global password policies and eliminating orphan accounts.

It says it's the only company that can do this."
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# posted by Robbie (2/05/2005 08:44:44 AM)

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