What is the difference between Centrify and Enterprise Single Sign-on (ESSO) products like Passlogix?
ESSO products like Passlogix are installed on the user’s PC and store the user’s log-on actions in an encrypted wallet. When you log on to an application like SAP, it will store your ID and password and remember to use them the next time. It will do that for all the systems and applications the user logs on to. But the problem is that you still have separate IDs and passwords for all those systems and no central way of managing them. If an employee leaves your organization, your admins will still have to go to each one of those systems and manually disable his or her access rights. With Centrify we do it in a centralized server-based way. We install a plugin on the SAP system that will accept a Kerberos ticket issued by Active Directory. That allows the user to silently authenticate to SAP just like they do for Exchange or any other application in the AD domain. Your AD password is now basically your enterprise password. Every help desk knows how to reset an AD password. Users can go i
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