One Identity Extends Top-Rated Active Roles Solution to Azure Active Directory, Driving Essential Efficiency and Security into Hybrid Environments

One Identity Extends Top-Rated Active Roles Solution to Azure
Active Directory, Driving Essential Efficiency and Security into Hybrid
Environments

●     New Active Roles release conquers
the biggest challenges organizations face in securing and managing on-premises
and cloud-based Active Directory environments

●     Single console extends
market-leading capabilities of Active Roles, enabling granular security and
streamlined administration for Microsoft cloud infrastructure and productivity
applications, including Office 365

●     Organizations slash administration
time and reduce risk by breaking free of costly manual processes and limited
native management tools across both environments

SINGAPORE – Feb. 7, 2017 – One Identity, a recognized leader in identity
and access management, today announced a new Active Roles version that extends best-in-class
features to conquer the security and management challenges organizations face
as they grapple with the complexities of hybrid Active Directory (AD)
environments. With thousands of users already leveraging Active Roles to manage
on-premises Active Directory, Active Roles 7.1 delivers a single management
console, purpose-built to help organizations overcome the time-consuming burden
and functional gaps often presented by disparate and limited native tools for
the hybrid AD/Azure Active Directory environment.

Currently, nearly 90 percent of
organizations worldwide rely on Microsoft’s Active Directory to authenticate
and authorize users on their networks, translating into 500 million organizations,
globally.[1] Yet while
Microsoft’s launch of the cloud-based Azure Active Directory (AAD) has fueled
steady growth in enterprise cloud adoption, many organizations face significant
challenges in efficiently managing the security and administration of their
quickly growing hybrid environments. Organizations require a solution that
addresses these issues in on-premises, cloud-based and hybrid Active Directory ecosystems.

“The steadily rising appetite for
cloud-based productivity tools like Microsoft Office 365 and Exchange Online
has driven quick adoption of Microsoft’s AAD – yet many adopting the cloud
still, by necessity, have their feet firmly planted in on-premises
environments, leading to vast inconsistencies in administrative processes and
security execution,” said John Milburn, president and general manager of One
Identity. “Coupled with the shortcomings of native and other third-party
solutions, the rise of these hybrid AD/AAD environments has led to millions of
enterprises struggling with dangerous gaps in security and crippling
inefficiencies. With our release of Active Roles 7.1, One Identity now empowers
organizations with precise, unified and consistent administration and security
for both AD and AAD from a single point of management, enabling enterprises to
embrace cloud adoption without sacrificing security.”

A Single Source of Security,
Automation and Management

Offering a unified, single product
for management of hybrid AD environments, Active Roles 7.1 extends the existing
robust capabilities of Active Roles, currently used by thousands of enterprises
worldwide, to AAD in a hybrid environment. Key new features of this version
include:

●     Admin delegation: Fills the glaring gap caused by the
lack of privileged account management in native AD and AAD management tools and
eliminates risk by granting AD and AAD admins only the rights necessary to
fulfill their jobs.

●     Provisioning automation: Ensures the consistency of all
provisioning/de-provisioning tasks (including group memberships) across both
on-premises AD and AAD (and all associated applications such as Exchange,
Exchange Online, Office 365, SharePoint, SharePoint Online, etc.) through
available templated workflows, eliminating error-prone redundancies,
inefficiencies and incidents of human error.

●     Comprehensive auditing: Facilitates compliance with audit
trails of administrative rights and all activities performed with those rights
across on-premises AD and AAD in the hybrid environment.

Bridging a Critical Gap in the
Market

“Active Directory is a staple in any
organization, and with the increase in adoption of Azure Active Directory, as
well as a targeted focus on digital transformation, we’re seeing a concentrated
effort around preparing an environment for migration and effectively
administering the hybrid environment going forward. As such, a single console
that serves as the epicenter of control and security for AD and AAD is
necessary,” said Tim Eichmann, head of infrastructure and cloud services at
Core Technology Systems, Ltd. “Time and again, One Identity continues to be a
trusted partner, and Active Roles proves itself as a critical tool in providing
us with the solutions needed to better manage and secure our customer
organizations’ infrastructure.”

Availability

One Identity Active
Roles 7.1 is available immediately worldwide.

About One Identity

One Identity, a business operating under Quest
Software, helps organizations solve their identity and access management (IAM)
challenges by offering a comprehensive portfolio comprised of future-ready,
business-centric, modular and integrated solutions that deliver superior
identity governance, access management, privileged management and identity as a
service. More than 7,500 customers worldwide depend on One Identity solutions
to manage more than 125 million identities, enhancing their agility and
efficiency while securing access to their data—wherever it might reside. For
more information, visit http://www.oneidentity.com.

Supporting Resources

·        
Download here our new eBook titled “Top 5 Challenges in Hybrid AD”

·        
Register here for our upcoming
webinar on “Understanding Security and Privileged Access in Azure Active
Directory”