NetIQ Identity Integration Suite
Enable centralized management and control for Unix, Linux, VMware ESX, and Mac
Centralizing the management of user identities on Unix, Linux, VMware ESX, and Mac through Microsoft Active Directory helps you to consistently enforce policies and standards across your environment while reducing administrative workload.
With NetIQ® Identity Integration Suite™, you will be able to improve security of business-critical information stored across your IT environment while reducing the burden on your administrators by providing a single, central repository for user identity administration.
Specifically, NetIQ Identity Integration Suite provides essential functions for standardizing administration and implementing controls, including:
- Access Control – to enforce security policies and consolidate user accounts, reducing the risk of unauthorized access and simplifying audits
- Centralized Authentication – to control who can log on to which systems and applications
- Role-Based Authorization – to control how and when users can access UNIX and Linux systems, helping to ensure users do not have overly-broad privileges, which can be the cause of security breaches
- Privilege Management – to specify what commands can be run, when, and by whom, on disparate systems within the enterprise
Unix and Linux Identity Management
Managing user identities in a cross-platform environment is a complex and frequently inefficient task, which creates security risks that are of increasing concern to organizations. Within the Windows environment, Active Directory provides a single, central point of administration.
Within Unix and Linux environments, user identities may reside in multiple identity silos such as NIS, LDAP databases, or proprietary directories; or, they may be managed locally, system by system.
In addition, administrative users frequently have access to root logins or to service accounts that give them privileges on business-critical systems that go well beyond what they need to perform their jobs. NetIQ Identity Integration Suite addresses these issues by enabling organizations to centralize identity management for their Unix and Linux environments within Microsoft Active Directory
IT Security and Access Control
One of the most difficult questions asked of IT security managers in cross-platform environments is: Can you prove which users have access to a specific business-critical system? And beyond that, can you verify what actions they performed on any particular system? For Unix or Linux systems, access controls may be stored in insecure legacy systems, such as NIS, or they may be managed locally, system by system. And a single user may have multiple identities across systems, making reporting and auditing difficult. NetIQ Identity Integration Suite addresses IT security issues by giving organizations a global view of access controls and user session activity, tied to a single, centrally-managed Active Directory identity.
Mac OS Desktop Management
As Mac OS X systems continue to move onto corporate desktops, IT managers need to ensure that these workstations are as easy to manage as their Windows counterparts. NetIQ Identity Integration Suite addresses these needs by enabling Active Directory-centric authentication, administration, access control, and policy enforcement for Mac OS systems.
The NetIQ Difference – Increasing Control and Reducing Workload
NetIQ Identity Integration Suite, part of the NetIQ Active Directory Management and Security product family, provides the controls necessary to help you securely and efficiently administer heterogeneous enterprise IT environments. Coupled with NetIQ® Directory and Resource Administrator™ and NetIQ® Group Policy Administrator™, you can more easily standardize the administration of your disparate technologies to help you achieve and maintain compliance, reduce the risk of data breach, and alleviate the burden of administering multiple systems.
