PowerBroker Identity Services for Active Directory Bridging
PowerBroker Identity Services delivers seamless integration of Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X servers with Microsoft Active Directory. Now you can leverage your existing Active Directory investment, on any operating system and application, driving down costs and streamlining operations.
Quickly and Easily Bring Your Linux and Unix Servers into Your Active Directory Deployment
There is considerable management overhead in maintaining the obsolete directory services that are often found in heterogeneous server environments. To satisfy the control requirements of security and compliance guidelines, many organizations are seeking out a solution to integrate their Linux, Unix and even Mac OS X servers into Active Directory.
PowerBroker Identity Services allows you to integrate your Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X servers with Microsoft Active Directory. PowerBroker Identity Services includes a proactive security event management toolset and custom reports for demonstrating compliance with regulatory requirements like PCI DSS, SOX, and HIPAA.
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Server Security Lifecycle
Key Benefits
- Accurate baseline for all follow-on assessment activities
- Target identification for least-privilege or other server projects such as consolidation or virtualization
- Creation of server-specific Smart Groups for regular assessments, risk prioritization and reporting
Key BeyondTrust Capabilities
- Provides complete inventory of server assets (approved and rogue)
- Cataloging of full system information (OS, device, applications, services, ports etc. )
- Discovery of local users, groups and privilege data across distributed server environment
Key Benefits
- Proactive identification of vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and policy violations
- Threat assessments on servers operating system, applications and configurations
- Custom audits/assessments allow for identification of non-standard assets, software or configurations
Key BeyondTrust Capabilities
- Accurate, actionable data helps drive proper remediation actions, accelerating risk reduction
- Risk scoring streamlines the classification of most at-risk devices
- Intuitive trending data for easy analysis, enabling better security strategy decisions
Key Benefits
- "Operational GPS" directs IT to which actions provide the most risk-reduction benefits
- Automated reporting on compliance efforts creates consistency and accountability, while driving down costs
- Enterprise policy management and reporting
Key BeyondTrust Capabilities
- Active Directory bridging across the enterprise
- Least Privilege implementation across the enterprise
- Robust database auditing
- Non-Microsoft application patching
Key Benefits
- Receive an immediate ‘state of the union’ with regards to your server deployment through Risk Scoring
- Greater efficiency via enterprise-centric capabilities such as role based access, internal auditing, ticketing, and integration with existing infrastructure investments
Key BeyondTrust Capabilities
- Centralized management, reporting and logging
- Role based policy, alert and reporting management
- Virtual Vulnerability Scans on elevated commands and applications
FEATURES & BENEFITS
Directory Migration
Automatically map UIDs and GIDs to users and groups defined in active directory by importing Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS password and group files.
Manage Active Directory
from Linux or Mac OS X
No need to force your IT staff to use only Windows to manage Active Directory. We provide a pluggable framework with an interface similar to Microsoft's Management Console on Linux or Mac OS X.
Granular Reporting
Custom and standard reports are easily generated to effortlessly manage and view access privileges for users and groups.
Open Source Version Available
Try our PowerBroker Identity Services Open solution for free. With access to the product source code you can tailor your Active Directory bridging project to your specific needs.
Why BeyondTrust for Active Directory Bridging
- We make life easier for system administrators by empowering them to use a single, often familiar tool set to manage both Windows and Unix systems
- Reduced costs by managing heterogeneous workstations and users from a central source that frequently already exists in the organization -- Active Directory
- Get single sign-on (SSO) for any enterprise application that supports Kerberos or LDAP, including Samba, Apache, SSH, Websphere, JBoss, Tomcat, Oracle, and MySQL
- Enables one-to-many management of Unix, Linux, and Mac OS X configuration settings
- Support for Remote Network file share access for Mac and Linux systems
- Provides centralized user management for Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X
- The only solution that does not have to modify your Active Directory schema to add Linux, Unix, & Mac OS X systems to your network
- Full support for Apple’s Workgroup Manager application, allowing for seamless management and control of Mac system settings
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Identity Services – Open Edition
Available as a free and open source version of PowerBroker Identity Services, giving you the access and flexibility to tailor your Active Directory bridging project
