What is Centrifys 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 com
