Centrify Captures Windows IT Pro Editors� Best Award for Interoperability
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[August 07, 2008]

Centrify Captures Windows IT Pro Editors� Best Award for Interoperability

LINUXWORLD EXPO, San Francisco, CA (News - Alert), August 6, 2008. Centrify Corporation, a leading provider of Microsoft Active Directory-centric identity management solutions for Linux, UNIX and Mac, today announced that its flagship product Centrify DirectControl has won the Windows IT Pro (News - Alert) Magazine�s Editors� Best Gold Award for Interoperability. Centrify DirectControl delivers secure access control and centralized identity management by integrating UNIX, Linux, Mac, web and database platforms with Microsoft (News - Alert) Active Directory. DirectControl effectively turns a non-Microsoft system into an Active Directory client, enabling IT professionals to secure that system using the same authentication, authorization and Group Policy services currently deployed for Windows systems.



�Windows IT Pro Magazine�s Editor�s Best Awards honor products that our editors and contributors have identified as best of breed in their respective categories. These winning products provide exceptional value, top-notch performance, and are of strategic importance to the market. All these award winners can help IT professionals do their jobs faster and more effectively,� said Jeff James, Senior Editor, Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine.

�This is an important acknowledgement by the editors at Windows IT Pro, that extending Microsoft Active Directory to embrace non-Microsoft platforms will help solve organizations� identity management challenges,� said David McNeely, Director of Product Management for Centrify. �We are grateful for their recognition of the value of this level of interoperability, and of Centrify�s ability to deliver it.�



About Centrify

Centrify provides auditing, access control and identity management solutions that centrally secure an organization�s heterogeneous systems, web applications, databases and storage systems using Microsoft Active Directory�the same authentication, authorization and Group Policy services deployed for its Windows environment. Centrify DirectAudit and DirectControl help organizations improve IT efficiency, better comply with regulatory requirements, and move toward a more secure, connected infrastructure for their cross-platform computing environment. For more information about Centrify and its solutions, call +1 650-961-1100 or visit http://www.centrify.com

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