NEW VERSION: DirectManage Express. The new version of DirectManage automates the discovery of systems, assesses their readiness, and streamlines the deployment of Centrify software on target systems for easy integration with Active Directory. For organizations deploying and managing dozens, hundreds, or thousands of servers, this automated deployment and upgrade feature saves an enormous effort. DirectManage now enables administrators to centrally manage local accounts and groups on Linux, UNIX and Mac systems whether or not those systems have been joined to Active Directory. Administrators can also create, edit or delete local accounts and groups on a single system or a group of systems. For example, an IT manager could use the DirectManage Deployment Manager to change the root password on a group of systems in a single step. And with its enhanced cloud support, DirectManage Express is now a centralized management point for support of both on-premise and cloud-based systems.
NEW VERSION: DirectControl Express. With the addition of nine new platforms, DirectControl Express now joins even more UNIX, Linux and Mac systems to Active Directory and gives users multi-platform single sign-on. Automated Active Directory join capabilities have also been added to DirectControl Express to enable deployment of DirectControl Express to the cloud.
NEW VERSION: Centrify-Enabled Open Source Tools. Centrify has updated some of its pre-configured versions of OpenSSH, PuTTY and Samba for painless remote access and file-sharing in an Active Directory environment. For example, Centrify has upgraded its support for OpenSSH by delivering a version based on OpenSSH Version 5.6p1. Centrify-enabled OpenSSH guarantees support for GSS Key Exchange on all platforms in order to establish trust between hosts (a feature which is not part of the standard OpenSSH distribution) and allows users to have the most current and consistent version of OpenSSH across their various deployed Linux platforms. Customers should note that both Centrify Express and the Centrify Suite also fully support the use of SSH provided by operating system vendors, as well as a number of commercial SSH solutions. Centrify simply delivers Centrify-enabled OpenSSH as an install option and convenience, and not a requirement, thereby uniquely giving users more choice in how they want to remotely access their distributed systems than any other Active Directory integration solution.
"Centrify is delivering the industry's broadest set of free capabilities to secure and manage on-premise and cloud-based systems leveraging an infrastructure they already own--Active Directory," said Frank Cabri, vice president of marketing for Centrify. "This enterprise-out approach we are taking gives IT administrators the comfort that they can leverage existing Active Directory tools and skill sets to secure their cross-platform systems regardless of where they are deployed, while at the same time providing them operational intelligence and centralized deployment and management."
Centrify Express 2011 is free, available now and can be downloaded at Centrify Express Download. Centrify Express is a subset of the capabilities provided by the Centrify Suite 2011 that layers on additional capabilities such as role-based access control, privileged identity management, Group Policy, user-level auditing, server isolation and encryption of data-in-motion. All of the capabilities described for Centrify Express 2011 also accrue to Centrify Suite 2011. Centrify Express customers can simply use Express for free or subsequently upgrade some or all of their non-Microsoft systems to the editions of the Centrify Suite that meets their needs.
