With Microsoft Active Directory and Centrify Suite, you can extend the directory that you already own to non-Windows systems, yielding substantial benefits for your organization through stronger security, streamlined IT operations and detailed user activity audit tracking. Most important, together they enable you to address many of the PCI DSS requirements.

Abstract The Security Standards Council of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) owns and maintains the Data Security Standard (DSS), which is a rigorous set of requirements that all merchants, payment processors, point-of-sale vendors, and financial institutions must follow. The stiff penalties defined by PCI members are designed to ensure that all merchants and service providers work to maintain consumer trust of payment cards since that loss would impact the revenues of all merchants and financial institutions. This white paper examines the compelling business and technical case for centralizing administration in Microsoft Active Directory, using the Centrify Suite to integrate UNIX and Linux systems into Active Directory in order to centralize server protection policies, user authentication and access controls as well as to provide accountability through direct auditing of user activities on these sensitive systems. Combined, Active Directory and Centrify Suite provide a comprehensive solution to address specific PCI DSS requirements.