About Centrify Corporation
Centrify was founded in March 2004 by Tom Kemp, our Chief Executive Officer and a former co-founder of NetIQ, and is led by a team of senior executives and technical managers from industry leaders such as NetIQ, Microsoft, Computer Associates, Novell, Legato, Netscape and others. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Centrify is a privately held company – more... with backing by top-tier venture capital firms Mayfield, Accel Partners, INVESCO Private Capital and Sigma Partners. Our partners include Microsoft, Red Hat, Novell, VMware, Apple and others.
What is Centrify's vision for identity management? Delivering centralized identity and access management is one of the top security challenges facing IT departments today. Corporate officers are requiring their IT managers to closely manage and audit who has access to key systems and to put policies and reporting in place to prove it. This task is frustrated by the fact that their environment consists of a diverse set of Windows, UNIX, Linux and Mac systems and applications with access controlled through multiple identity stores, inefficient processes, and ineffective or non-existent policy enforcement. At the same time, budgetary pressures are forcing them to look for ways to do even more with less.
Unfortunately, existing solutions that can help these organizations consolidate and centralize their identity and access management are highly proprietary, very costly to deploy, and require painful changes to their existing IT infrastructure. Centrify's vision is to tie these disparate systems and applications into a secure, connected computing infrastructure with Active Directory at its center. Active Directory is a standards-based, enterprise-class directory that most companies already own - in fact the Garter Group projects that by the end of 2010, at least 90 percent of midsize and large enterprises will have deployed Active Directory in their internal infrastructure.
What products does Centrify provide? Centrify's solution for secure access control and centralized identity management is the DirectControl suite. The suite consists of the DirectControl Agent, which is available for more than 150 different versions of the most popular UNIX, Linux and Mac systems. The Agent provides authentication, access control, and Group Policy services for these host systems through Active Directory. Optional modules that snap seamlessly into the DirectControl Agent provide additional services, such as web single sign-on and Samba integration.
What key business problems does Centrify DirectControl address? Customers who have chosen Centrify are typically experiencing problems in three key areas:
Security.
They have multiple identity stores, with a single user having five or more accounts. These identity stores are not integrated or are relying on expensive and complex synchronization schemes that have failed to scale with their needs. Some of these identity stores rely on technology that is not secure. As a result, issues such as inconsistent security policies and the existence of orphan accounts pose major security risks. – less – More from ZoomInfo »
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