Introduction
PowerBroker Identity Services, Enterprise Edition is an Active Directory bridge product that yields a number of benefits to organizations with heterogeneous networks. The benefits include improved regulatory compliance, reduced costs, and fewer user sign-ons. BeyondTrust’s Active Directory (AD) bridge product lets organizations manage Unix, Linux, and Mac users from Active Directory. It also provides Kerberos authentication and single sign-on to Unix users and gives system administrators the power to centrally manage Unix systems with standard AD tools, such as the Group Policy Object Editor.
AD bridge products unite Unix and Microsoft environments through existing Active Directory infrastructure and the Microsoft tools that come with AD. Because Active Directory is a ubiquitous directory management solution and because many organizations nevertheless use a variety of Linux, Unix, and Mac platforms, implementing PowerBroker Identity Services, Enterprise Edition as an AD bridge product results in lower total cost of ownership for Unix, Linux, and Mac platforms. BeyondTrust’s AD bridge software makes Linux, Unix, and Mac systems easier to manage and easier to secure by providing a single user identity for Unix and Windows platforms and a common, highly secure authentication and authorization framework.
PowerBroker Identity Services, Enterprise Edition lets you join Linux and Unix computers running the Apache HTTP Server to Microsoft Active Directory, yielding a range of benefits for users, system administrators, and managers.
Users get single sign-on: They log on once to a workstation that is authenticated through Active Directory and automatically receive Kerberos-based single sign-on for other computers and applications, including the Apache web server. System administrators rest easy with the knowledge that users accessing your intranet through HTTP are securely authenticated with Kerberos 5 and authorized for access to the resources on your Apache web server. Managers see their operational costs drop as their Linux and Unix computers running Apache are centrally managed within Active Directory. Security managers find help in their quest for regulatory compliance.