One Identity Extends Top-Rated Active Roles Solution to Azure Active Directory
March 2017 by Marc Jacob
One Identity 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 AD (AAD) 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. 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 environment. Organizations require a solution that addresses these issues in on-premises, cloud-based and hybrid Active Directory ecosystems.
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 the Azure AD 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 Azure AD (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-prem AD and Azure AD in the hybrid environment.
Availability
One Identity Active Roles 7.1 is available immediately worldwide.