Tags: centrify | cloud

OK, so we are all hearing about "The Cloud." Cloud this, Cloud that. Vendors talk about it all the time, but are they simply blogging about it and telling their investors about this hot new thing called "The Cloud" or are they also actually delivering products that are specific and optimized and useful to "The Cloud"? Well, Centrify heard all this talk of the "The Cloud," we talked to Cloud providers, and of course talked to our customers, and decided to actually do something about "The Cloud." So after a good deal of research figuring out what customers care about vis a vis securing "The Cloud," and after a good bit of development effort, the other day we released, for free, Centrify CloudTools. CloudTools represents our initial foray into helping customers secure and automate the enforcement of Active Directory-based authentication and access control policies for a variety of Linux servers running within hosted environments such as Amazon EC2. There is a lot more stuff for us to do vis a vis "The Cloud," but every journey begins with some initial steps, and in this blog post I want to discuss the steps we have started to take.

Tags: centrify | review | suite

The Centrify Suite is a "good marriage of *nix and Active Directory. ... We find this product to be a good value for the money." (Peter Stephenson SC Magazine September, 2010).