Paradyne Reveals Why It Chose Centrify

Online, September 11, 2013 (Newswire.com) - In a white paper, called Identity and Access Management in the Cloud Era, Paradyne analyses the Identity Access Management (IAM) Landscape, concluding that Centrify provides a fully integrated security management possible across all platforms, across all devices.

"Centrify, through its wide range of identity and access management products, is uniquely positioned to provide firms a variety of simple through to advanced identity management solutions," Paradyne reports.

"Because Centrify leverages the cloud as well for its IAM solution, companies can take advantage of the benefits of the cloud - cost effectiveness and efficiency - without heavy upfront costs brought by on-premises implementations."

Last week, Paradyne became Centrify's first specialist cloud computing partner in Australia. In its white paper, which can read or download from http://www.paradyne.com.au/centrify-white-paper/, Paradyne spells out its rationale for choosing Centrify over competing IAM approaches.

"The rapid uptake of cloud and mobile services has brought Identity and Access Management (IAM) to the forefront of solution adoption," the report explains. "Previously employees were not permitted to bring and use their own personal devices due to security risks posed to the corporate network. Now, however, companies encourage not only their staff but also their customers to use their own devices (commonly referred to as BYOD). In fact, a study done by IDC revealed that about 70 per cent of employees access corporate information through their personal devices.

"An account secured by passwords and group memberships is simply no longer enough."
Paradyne notes that while SaaS (Software as a Service) was not a new concept, solutions like Office 365 had led the mass market adoption of more and more SaaS solutions.

"The problem with the Office 365 first approach is that organisations will predominantly look at what Microsoft requires by way of identity management and control, instead of a holistic journey-based approach to see where else the organisation will implement cloud solutions," it says. "The largest roadblock in Office 365 deployments is the consideration of and implementation of the identity management solution. "The best current answer to this cloud identity problem is Centrify as it provides a unified identity service solution that solves the security challenges introduced by cloud services while also bringing operational efficiency to play.

"Centrify provides organisations with a more streamlined way of leveraging their existing identity infrastructure to centrally manage authentication access, control, privilege management, policy enforcement together with auditing not only for cloud but also on-premises systems. In addition, Centrify also integrated its SSO feature set with, at time of writing, close to 1000 third party applications.

"A few of the most popular are Office 365, Salesforce.com, Webex, Concur, Postini, Google Apps and Box. It also caters to Apps specific plugins for Apache, JBoss, WebLogic, Websphere, DB2, SAP ABAP and SAP Java. Its support for Office 365 is unparalleled."

"Finally, Centrify also extends this beyond cloud to on-premises applications, servers, Macs, iPads and Android devices. This provides for clear security and operational benefits that should not be ignored."

About Paradyne -

Paradyne is an Information Technology (IT) consultancy specializing in Cloud technology and IT solutions, helping businesses of all sizes to enhance their IT capabilities, whilst reducing operational and maintenance costs, using the most advanced Cloud-based technology.

Working with both Telstra and Microsoft, Paradyne offers expert solutions for technologies. Helping over 200 small to large businesses migrate to the Cloud already, our professional, experienced, award winning staff provide flexible, easy to manage, cost effective IT solutions customized to your business needs. Visit Paradyne at www.paradyne.com.au.

About Centrify -

Centrify provides Unified Identity Services across the data centre, cloud and mobile that results in one single login for users and one unified identity infrastructure for IT. Centrify's solutions reduce costs and increase agility and security by leveraging an organization's existing identity infrastructure to enable centralized authentication, access control, privilege management, policy enforcement and compliance. Centrify customers typically reduce their costs associated with identity lifecycle management and compliance by more than 50 per cent.

With more than 5000 customers worldwide, including 40 per cent of the Fortune 50 and more than 60 Federal agencies, Centrify is deployed on more than one million server, application and mobile device resources on-premise and in the cloud. For more information about Centrify and its solutions, call 1300 795 789 or visit http://www.centrify.com/.