Why Customers Choose PowerBroker Identity Services, Enterprise Edition

Security and compliance concerns are a primary driver, but the management overhead -- and overload -- of maintaining obsolete directory services, such as NIS, or ad hoc directory services, such as a custom LDAP implementation or a home-grown Kerberos key distribution center are also important factors. Specifically, here are some of the drivers our customers have cited for using BeyondTrust software to build a bridge to Active Directory:

• Replace a Network Information Service (NIS) environment, an obsolete and insecure directory service.
• Reduce costs by managing heterogeneous workstations and users from a central source that frequently already exists in the organization -- Active Directory.
• Improve life cycle management of user identities -- user names and passwords -- for Unix environments.
• Provide a common, highly secure authentication framework for a heterogeneous network.
• Control access to sensitive resources.
• Limit access to different servers and other computing assets to privileged users.
• Manage both Unix and Windows systems with group policies.
• Make life easier for system administrators by empowering them to use a single, often familiar tool set to manage both Windows and Unix systems.
• Give Unix users single sign-on to Windows applications, such as Sharepoint.
• Give Windows users single sign-on to intranets and applications running on Unix servers, such as single sign-on for an intranet running on an Apache web server, or an Oracle database.
• Eliminate plain-text passwords or replace basic authentication with Kerberos.