The Institute of Cancer Research Deploys Centrify’s Solution to Centrally Manage Apple Mac Systems within Active Directory

SUNNYVALE, California and BRACKNELL, England, June 21, 2011 -

- Centrify’s Suite 2011
platform integrates the ICR’s growing Mac user population and
centralizes all security and policies in Active Directory

Centrify Corporation, the leading
provider of security and compliance solutions that centrally
control, secure and audit cross-platform systems and applications
using Active Directory, today announced that The Institute of
Cancer Research (ICR) has deployed its Centrify Suite 2011 solution
to unify all security and policy controls for all computer users,
including its growing Macintosh user population, within Active
Directory. Now, the ICR controls access for its more than 1000
staff members centrally under Active Directory for increased
security and lower IT overhead.

From its founding in 1909 as a small
research department of the Royal Marsden Hospital, the ICR has
grown to become one of the world’s foremost independent cancer
research organizations. When the ICR began migrating its server
infrastructure from Novell Netware to Microsoft Windows Server, it
triggered the need to move to Active Directory for all users -
including for its then 300 Mac users. Macs have been used within
the ICR for almost 20 years. Initially, certain DNA sequencing
applications the ICR scientists required were available only on the
Mac OS. Today, Macs are important to scientists because of their
UNIX foundation - many pieces of bioinformatics software are
UNIX-based only.

“With the implementation of Microsoft
Active Directory we saw an opportunity to deliver full features for
all users, just like our Windows users already have,” said Rob
Hall, the ICR Assistant Manager of Desktop Services.

With the Centrify solution deployed,
the ICR was able to join all Mac systems to their Active Directory
domain, enabling centralized authentication and access control, and
the use of Microsoft Group Policy to centrally configure and set
user and computer policies for all staff no matter their computing
preference.

“The ICR needed to set and enforce the
same security policies across all users, and change policies in a
centralized fashion,” said Mr. Hall. “For example, we recently
forced a change to the Mac users to use an internal Mac Software
Update server. Using a central control system saved time in
updating individual machines and also ensured that the ICR Macs
receive the latest security and OS enhancement fixes that Apple
provides.”

“We’ve just invested heavily in SGI’s
high-performance computing equipment,” Mr. Hall added. “When people
start connecting to it we’ll want them to log on with their same AD
credentials, and we can see Centrify might help us with that,
too.”

“The ICR’s record of achievement in
understanding the genetic basis of cancer is second to none, and we
are pleased to be working with them to enable a unified security
infrastructure,” said Darren Gross, Centrify Regional Director for
EMEA. “This deployment is a great example of how Centrify
streamlines organizations’ access control across all platforms, for
improved security with less overhead. With Centrify, the ICR uses
the same controls from their Windows console to set identical
policies for both Mac and PC users, and eases the ICR’s help desk
burden.”

About the
Institute of Cancer Research (ICR)

The ICR is Europe’s leading cancer
research centre; and has been ranked as the UK’s top academic
research centre, based on the results of the Higher Education
Funding Council’s Research Assessment Exercise. The ICR works
closely with partner The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust to
ensure patients immediately benefit from new research. Together the
two organisations form the largest comprehensive cancer centre in
Europe. The ICR has charitable status and relies on voluntary
income, spending 90 pence in every pound of total income directly
on research. As a college of the University of London, the ICR also
provides postgraduate higher education of international
distinction. Over its 100-year history, the ICR’s achievements
include identifying the potential link between smoking and lung
cancer which was subsequently confirmed, discovering that DNA
damage is the basic cause of cancer and isolating more
cancer-related genes than any other organisation in the world. For
more information visit href="www.icr.ac.uk/">www.icr.ac.uk

About Centrify

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Dan Spalding, +1-408-960-9297, dan.spalding at centrify.com