Centrify Corp. has released Centrify Suite 2012, a new release of its software to centrally control, secure and audit Mac, UNIX, and Linux systems and applications using Active Directory. The new version adds additional enterprise-class capabilities to centralize privilege access management, and audit user session activity for increased security and compliance of cloud and on-premise systems. The suite enables secure authentication, single sign-on, privileged access management and user session auditing.

Centrify Suite 2012 improves centralized management of complex and disparate UNIX and Linux systems for easier migration into Active Directory without requiring UID/GID clean-up and rationalization. The new version also improves administration of non-Windows systems with new DirectManage capabilities. Suite 2012 improves operational efficiency by rapidly discovering, configuring and joining new systems and updating existing systems.

A new Hierarchical Zones feature works with new Computer Roles capabilities to mitigates insider threats. The company said that the Suite enforces a least access model to systems and applications, ensuring staff have only the access rights and privileged commands required for their job function. also provides a simpler way to migrate from legacy NIS (Network Information Service) infrastructure and NIS migration to an Active Directory-based management solution.

Centrify Suite 2012 consists of DirectControl 5.0, DirectAuthorize 2.0, DirectManage 5.0, DirectAudit 2.0 and DirectSecure 1.2. Centrify Suite 2012 is licensed on a per server basis and starts at $385 per server and $65 per workstation.