Centrify Joins Cloud Security Alliance
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Centrify, the leader in securing enterprise identities against cyberthreats, today announced that it has joined Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) as a corporate member. CSA is a not-for-profit organisation that promotes best practices for assuring security of Cloud Computing and provides education on the use of Cloud Computing to help secure all computing. The Centrify Identity Platform protects against the leading point of attack used in data breaches ? compromised credentials — by securing an enterprise’s internal and external users as well as its privileged accounts, through cloud, mobile or on-premise.
Centrify plans to contribute to CSA’s initiatives and share best practices around using identity to define a new security perimeter. Identity-defined security enables IT teams to establish accountability, reduce the attack surface available to hackers and easily prove compliance at any point in time…
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