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08/09/2007, 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
Moderator:
Paul Moore, CTO, Centrify Corporation.
Speaker:
Administering access to a mix of UNIX, Linux, Mac, and VMware platforms and a mix of applications on those platforms for users both within and outside the organization can be a piecemeal, expensive, time-consuming, unending, soul-deadening activity. We will show how an organization can integrate all of the administration of users, groups, and passwords into a central location at a fraction of the cost of siloed administration or a synchronization solution.
After a brief review of the rationale for using Active Directory (related specifically to security, compliance and administrative time and costs) we focus on the technical issues involved in integrating and managing identities across across various platforms in one directory. We look at the components of alternative approaches and provide a checklist of considerations to determine readiness; e.g. what to do about the current identity silos; best practices for centralized provisioning; policy considerations, privilege management, platform-specific configuration policies; integrating web app and database authentication.
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