SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Centrify Corporation, the leader in securing identities from cyberthreats, today announced that it has been awarded the Skyhigh CloudTrust™ rating of Enterprise-Ready for its Centrify Identity Service. Skyhigh Enterprise-Ready cloud services are the select cloud services that fully satisfy the most stringent requirements for data protection, identity verification, service security, business practices, and legal protection.
“Centrify Identity Service provides a comprehensive solution for provisioning, governing and securing enterprise SaaS applications,” said Bill Mann, chief product officer of Centrify. “Featuring inside-app visibility, governance, data protection and a host of other essential security features, Centrify Identity Service helps to protect organizations from risks by securing SaaS apps across the enterprise.”
Skyhigh identifies and classifies thousands of cloud services and provides an objective and detailed evaluation of the enterprise-readiness of each cloud service based on a detailed set of criteria developed in conjunction with the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). The evaluation spans across five categories, including data, user and device, security, business, and legal.
“Selecting an enterprise-ready service like Centrify Identity Service is critical, but performing product evaluations is expensive and time consuming, especially with the breadth of services available today,” said Kamal Shah, vice-president of products and marketing at Skyhigh Networks. “The Skyhigh CloudTrust Rating streamlines the evaluation process by providing an objective and comprehensive evaluation of a service’s security controls and enterprise readiness.”
As users access work applications from the cloud and their mobile devices, Centrify Identity Service reduces cost and complexity through a single solution for identity and enterprise mobility management. The solution provides a broad set of capabilities to enable SSO for SaaS and mobile applications, policy and device management for mobile platforms, and identity and policy management for Macs.
About Centrify
Centrify strengthens enterprise security by managing and securing user identities from cyberthreats. As organizations expand IT resources and teams beyond their premises, identity is becoming the new security perimeter. With our platform of integrated software and cloud-based services, Centrify uniquely secures and unifies identity for both privileged and end users across today’s hybrid IT world of cloud, mobile and data center. The result is stronger security and compliance, improved business agility and enhanced user productivity through single sign-on. Over 5000 customers, including half of the Fortune 50 and over 80 federal agencies, leverage Centrify to secure identities. Learn more at www.centrify.com.
About the Skyhigh CloudTrust™ Rating
The Skyhigh CloudTrust™ Rating provides an objective and comprehensive evaluation of a service's security controls and enterprise readiness based on a detailed set of criteria developed in conjunction with the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). Because Skyhigh produces the most extensive, current, and credible trust ratings for cloud services, enterprises rely on the Skyhigh CloudTrust™ Rating to inform both decisions and policy pertaining to the use of cloud services in their environment. For more information, visit https://www.skyhighnetworks.com/cloud-trust-program/ or follow us on Twitter @skyhighnetworks, #CloudTrust.
Centrify is a registered trademark and Centrify Server Suite and Centrify Identity Service are trademarks of Centrify Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
