Amadeus Chooses Centrify to Strengthen Compliance and Streamline Security Administration

By Centrify Corporation, PRNE
Monday, October 4, 2010

Centrify Suite helps Amadeus meet PCI standards and accelerate system deployments without increasing headcount.

SUNNYVALE, California, October 5, 2010 - Centrify Corporation announced that its Centrify Suite has been selected
and deployed by Amadeus to help meet PCI compliance requirements and increase
the efficiency of its server administration within their data center - one of
the largest worldwide dedicated to travel-related transactions. Amadeus, the
leading transaction processor and provider of advanced technology solutions
for the global travel and tourism industry, has deployed the Centrify Suite
to use the same Active Directory credentials across a heterogeneous computing
environment comprised of thousands of servers for their hundreds of
developers and administrators. The Centrify Suite enabled Amadeus to rapidly
increase their server deployments, provide Single Sign-on (SSO) to their
developers and administrators, increase the granularity of their access
control, tighten their security and meet PCI standards without having to add
more staff or another layer of administrative software.

"It's absolutely critical to satisfy PCI regulations if we want to
maintain the high levels of security demanded by our customers. Centrify
helps us meet those standards," said Ana-Paula Ribeiro, Director of Operating
System Services for Amadeus. "We automatically include Centrify on every
server we deploy, and we are deploying hundreds per quarter."

By including Centrify Suite on all systems, Amadeus eliminated disparate
UNIX and Linux identity stores. By relying on Active Directory and Centrify,
each Amadeus user now has a single user ID and password to use to login to
all of the systems that IT security has centrally granted them access to.
Amadeus can also enforce security best practices uniformly across all of the
UNIX and Linux systems by using the strict policies (such as password
expirations, password length and complexity) that Active Directory and
Centrify enable. They can eliminate redundant, orphan accounts, and manage
privileged users from a centralized console. If a system engineer changes
roles or leaves the organization, his access to all systems, regardless of
OS, can be modified or eliminated in seconds.

Ms. Ribeiro observed, "The fact that Centrify could provide uniform
support across all of our operating system platforms was a major advantage.
By use of Centrify and other tools we can automate user and server
administration, which allows us a more efficient ratio between servers and
system engineers."

Amadeus customers include travel providers (airlines, hotels, rail, car
rental, ferries, etc.), travel sellers (travel agencies and websites), and
travel buyers (corporations and individual travelers). The group operates a
transaction-based business model and processed more than 670 million billable
travel transactions in 2009. The Amadeus data center in Erding, Germany, is
one of the largest worldwide dedicated to travel.

About the Centrify Suite

The Centrify Suite centrally secures cross-platform data centers through
Active Directory-based identity and access management of the industry's
widest range of heterogeneous systems, hypervisors and applications. Built on
an integrated architecture that leverages our patented technology, the
Centrify Suite of solutions enables organizations to reduce IT expense and
complexity, improve end-user productivity through single sign-on, strengthen
security and enhance regulatory compliance initiatives. Key components of the
Centrify Suite include integrated authentication, access control, role-based
privilege management, user-level auditing and server protection solutions,
consisting of Centrify DirectControl, Centrify DirectAuthorize, Centrify
DirectAudit, Centrify DirectSecure, and Centrify DirectManage.

About Centrify

Centrify is the leader in securing and auditing access to cross-platform
systems and applications through Active Directory. From the data center and
into the cloud, Centrify's identity consolidation and privilege management
solutions are used by over 2500 organizations to reduce IT expenses,
strengthen security and meet compliance requirements. For more information
about Centrify and its solutions, call +1-408-542-7500 or visit
www.centrify.com

Centrify and DirectControl are registered trademarks and Centrify Suite,
DirectAudit, DirectSecure and DirectAuthorize are trademarks of Centrify
Corporation. Other names used in this document are trademarks of their
respective companies.

Tom Cromelin of Centrify Corporation, +1-925-997-8459, tom.cromelin at centrify.com

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