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Centrify Identity Services: Securing Docker and Containers

Introduction We are excited to announce that Centrify now supports CoreOS Container Optimized Linux which several of our customers are using as part of their adoption of containerization for their application deployments. But first, let’s start with an overview of how Centrify can help you protect access to these containerized platforms and the applications that run on them. As organizations embrace hybrid cloud environments moving their applications and other workloads to public clouds such as AWS, Azure and Google, application developers building custom apps inevitably rework their applications to take advantage of the hosting platform capabilities such as auto-scaling enabling…

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Centrify Achieves Advanced Partner Status in AWS Partner Network

We are proud to announce that Centrify has met the requirements and is now an Advanced Partner within the AWS Partner Network. Is this just another Partner announcement or is there something more here? What This Means for Customers First, for customers, Centrify becoming an Advanced Technology Partner means that they have been so rigorously tested that AWS personnel can recommend Centrify to AWS customers without reservation. AWS has put Centrify and its products/services through hours of testing and diligence, including talking to customer references, analyzing Centrify’s Identity Services, as well as establishing that Centrify on AWS meets all security…

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Moving to the Cloud? Six Best Practices for AWS Security

When moving to an AWS infrastructure, responsibility for security is shared between Amazon and your organization. Amazon’s Shared Responsibility Model clearly shows where both parties’ responsibilities begin and end. AWS secures the lower layers of the infrastructure stack, while the organization is accountable for everything else up to and including the application layer. Six security best practices for organizations moving to AWS Extend your common security model Conventional security and compliance concepts still apply in the cloud. Whether we’re talking about existing apps migrating to the cloud or new ones being built there, they must be secured and good practices…

Centrify Perspective

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6 Reactions to the Cisco 2017 Midyear Cybersecurity Report: Part 2

Last week, I discussed the first three reactions I had to the “Cisco 2017 Midyear Cybersecurity Report.” I discussed how vendor consolidation is increasing, how spyware is being branded as malware and how detection of threats is continuously improving. DevOps as a Target In the Vulnerabilities section of the document, Rapid7 describes how DevOps is a target and vulnerability for many companies that may use things like AWS, Azure, or Docker frameworks for development. When these resources are built, they are not always deployed in a secure state and often are left behind to run indefinitely. Identity management tools that…

It's All About Identity

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Driving Cloud-Based Agility at Rémy Cointreau with Centrify

Business requirements and information security priorities have always had a tough time aligning. It’s even become something of a cliché these days to say that security is a block on agility, productivity and growth. Yet it doesn’t have to be that way. Rémy Cointreau’s recent collaboration with Centrify is a great example of how, when implemented correctly, security can actually support the business: in this instance, our move to a more agile, cloud-based infrastructure.  On the opening day of Infosecurity Europe in London, I explained to a packed audience exactly how the Centrify Identity Service is helping our employees work…

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Thoughts from the 2017 AWS Summit in San Francisco

One of the things I love about partnering with Amazon Web Services is how often they are in front of their user community. In addition to their large, annual user conference called RE:Invent, AWS hosts several smaller regional summits throughout the year. As an APN partner, Centrify had the opportunity to participate in last week’s AWS Summit in San Francisco. We were lucky to be able to visit with a nice cross-section of AWS users — users across multiple industries, many of which were in the Fortune 1000. It was great meeting with these organizations and across the board, companies…

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Ponemon 2017 Report: The Need for a New IT Security Architecture

It’s annual cybersecurity reporting season and first up in 2017 is the Ponemon Global Study, “The Need for a New IT Security Architecture” sponsored by Citrix. The study reveals global trends in IT security risks and reasons why security practices and policies need to evolve in order to deal with threats from disruptive technologies, cybercrime and compliance. Changes in the workplace and problems managing IT security are also increasing risks to the organization. This report surveyed more than 4000 global IT and security practitioners and discusses the findings that concern risks created by cybercrime, employee negligence and organizational dysfunction and…

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Five Key Takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2016

I had the honor of attending the Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2016 and wanted to highlight some of my key takeaways from the conference. Since Centrify was a sponsor, I was able to talk with many folks with an interest in learning more about Centrify’s announcement, “Centrify Delivers Innovative Capabilities and Best Practices to Streamline and Secure Adoption of Hybrid Cloud.” 1. AWS is Innovative as a Large Company A good proxy for innovation is the number of features and products a company releases. AWS currently has tens of thousands of employees, and AWS announced 24 new products at the AWS Re-Invent show….