Introducing the Hub City Media Sun Identity Manager Connector for Centrify

Your link to end-to-end UNIX account provisioning and auditing.

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Overcoming the barriers

A variety of vendor and open-source solutions have been developed over the years to address UNIX account management and access control, including those based on LDAP, Kerbero, and Sun’s Network Information Service (NIS) and NIS+. Unfortunately, all of these solutions have serious shortcomings, requiring many enterprises to turn to custom solutions.

That’s why Hub City Media created its innovative Sun Identity Manager Connector for Centrify. It provides a streamlined way to integrate the Centrify Suite with Sun Identity Manager, eliminating the problems of existing solutions and providing a complete end-to-end UNIX account provisioning and audit system.

With this connector, Sun’s Identity Management system and the Centrify Suite can work together to provide a complete solution for account, access and password management in complex system environments. This pre-tested, pre-integrated solution delivers the sophisticated identity management controls required by many regulatory frameworks, including, full account lifecycle management, fine-grained role-based host access controls, password management, and powerful access auditing. These features satisfy the need to secure and manage today’s heterogeneous networks.

The right connection

Hub City Media recognized early on that together, Centrify Suite and Sun Identity Manager can provide customers with the full set of capabilities required to manage user accounts across multiple UNIX systems and heterogeneous system environments. The missing component was a resource adapter to leverage Centrify’s APIs to manage entries in Active Directory. Hub City Media’s engineering team thus created a connector that makes managing Centrify’s AD entries a simple configurable task.

End-to-end capabilities

The Hub City Media Sun Identity Manager Connector for Centrify links the Centrify Suite and Sun Identity Manager to provide strong support for:
• Account Lifecycle Management – provides an automated mechanism for creating, deleting, enabling, disabling and modifying UNIX accounts.
• Password Management - supports sophisticated password management features such as checking for password complexity, forced periodic password changes, password history, self-service password change, and password reset based on security questions.
• Host Access Control – user access can be limited to specific managed UNIX machines or systems.
• UNIX Command Management – enables restriction of what commands a user can execute on accessible systems and at what privilege level. This is more commonly implemented using the UNIX sudo command or other commercial packages.
• Full System Auditability - across all access, changes to access rights, and password activity. Critical systems can be configured with the ability to reconstruct administrative login sessions.

Get it today

Contact Hub City Media now for more information on our Sun Identity Manager Connector for Centrify.