Part One of the Three Part Expert Webinar Series Strengthen IT Security and Enhance Compliance by Leveraging Microsoft Active Directory for Cross-Platform Identity and Access Management

Today's demanding government and industry regulations require organizations to prove the effectiveness of their authorization and access controls. Capturing login events is not sufficient. Capturing keystrokes is not sufficient. To be compliant (and avoid fines, loss of market trust, and more), auditing solutions must go beyond conventional logging practices. Who does what on which systems must be tracked, and the results of unauthorized actions must be known. Linking UNIX and Linux activity to individual users has always proved difficult. Typically, numerous administrators share root logins, service accounts, or other user IDs. Such conditions are cumbersome to manage, and make it difficult to prove to auditors that your processes are solid. Join this event to learn about best practices in cross-platform auditing and compliance, and how Centrify's Active Directory-centric solution, DirectAudit, addresses these important issues. Perry Carpenter, Gartner Analyst will outline: Critical features security solutions must have to address best practices for cross-platform environments, including UNIX and Linux systems. The best ways to consistently comply with numerous regulatory requirements like PCI, SOX, FISMA, CobiT, GLBA, Basel II, and HIPAA (among many others). The advantages of definitively tying audit trails to specific Active Directory identities. David McNeely, Centrify Director of Product Management will discuss: DirectAudit's ability to go beyond log aggregation and actually audit user session activity across heterogeneous systems. How DirectControl leverages Active Directory infrastructure to support web application platforms such as Apache, WebSphere, WebLogic and JBoss, and ERP apps like SAP. DirectAudit's comprehensive logging capabilities that link individual unix login session activities to the actual AD Person responsible for the actions. The diagnostic troubleshooting capabilities of DirectAudit, including the ability to replay and report on user activity (keystrokes as well as session output) to identify changes to key resources. How DirectAudit helps prevent insider attacks through a central, real-time view of who has access to critical UNIX/Linux systems, and what they are doing.

Featured Speakers

Perry Carpenter Gartner Analyst This webinar series features Gartner Analyst Perry Carpenter, who outlines best practices in identity and access management, and discusses the role Active Directory can play in centrally managing non-Windows systems and streamlining IT operations. The series also features Centrify solution experts who discuss and demonstrate how Centrify's solutions are used to integrate heterogeneous systems with Active Directory to achieve significant security and compliance benefits. David McNeely Centrify Director of Product Management David McNeely is a Director of Product Management at Centrify, and works with customers to drive the roadmap for Centrify's award-winning identity and access management solutions. David has worked in the identity and access management market for over 16 years, holding various product marketing and management positions at ActiveIdentity, AOL, iPlanet and Netscape. At Netscape and iPlanet he was the director of product management for the Directory and Security product line, where he first promoted the concept of a centralized directory for all identity and access management.