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Together, Active Directory and Gold Finger provide 4 best-of-breed solutions that deliver unmatched security.

Roles-based Delegation in Active Directory

Gold Finger finally lets organizations trustworthily implement roles-based delegation in Active Directory.

With Gold Finger, organizations can finally implement a highly secure, roles-based delegation model natively in their Active Directory, and not have to rely on expensive, 3rd party, roles-based management solutions for AD.

Active Directory + Gold Finger = Best of Breed Roles-based Delegation Solution

Active Directory offers a powerful delegation model that can be used to implement roles-based delegation for IT management natively in Active Directory by using domain security groups to represent administrative roles.

However one substantial shortcoming in Active Directory in this regard is that it completely lacks the ability to accurately assess and verify delegated access, thus preventing organizations from implementing true roles-based delegation natively in Active Directory, leaving them with no choice but to invest in 3rd party solutions.

Gold Finger, architected by none other than former Microsoft Program Manager for Active Directory Security, completely automates the accurate assessment and verification of delegated access in Active Directory, thus allowing organizations to reliably implement roles-based delegation models natively in Active Directory.

The ability to obtain precise, on-demand insight into the state of delegated roles-based access entitlements in Active Directory provides organizations the complete picture and enables trustworthy roles-based delegation.

Organizations can thus now use Active Directory to delegate and undelegate roles-based administration and use Gold Finger to instantly and accurately assess and verify all delegated access in their Active Directory.

The implementation of native roles-based delegation in Active Directory is also recommended by Microsoft. Furthermore, because it involves the use of domain security groups, it offers maximum flexibility in terms of defining roles, mapping administrative tasks to roles, and assigning individuals to roles on a need-basis, with high precision and all the advantages of Active Directory, including a highly secure foundation, enterprise scalability, fault-tolerant redundancy and availability, as well as single-sign on and roles based access control.

Substantial Benefits

The implementation of a roles-based delegation model natively in Active Directory together with Gold Finger offers the following benefits –

1. Complete flexibility in defining administrative roles
2. Complete flexibility in mapping administrative tasks to administrative roles
3. The ability to precisely delegated administrative tasks based on administrative roles
4. A trustworthy, scalable, fault-tolerant foundation upon which to implement roles based delegation
5. True single-sign on and the ability to extend roles beyond just AD based resource management
6. Substantial costs savings based on elimination of expensive 3rd party proxy roles-based solutions
7. No reliance on 3rd party based proxy management solution, which is also a single point of failure
8. On-demand, true AD-integrated, group membership based role proviosining and de-provisioning
9. Ability to instantly and accurately assess and verify all roles-based delegations, on-demand
10. Complete insight and control into who is delegated what access, where and how so at all times

In fact, if you can delegate an administrative task in Active Directory to an administrative role, with Gold Finger you can instantly and accurately assess and verify it as well, on-demand, in real-time, at a button's touch.

Together the powerful combination of Active Directory and Gold Finger finally lets organizations –

• Leverage their investment in Windows Server to implement a highly secure and cost-efficient roles-based delegation model that uses domain security groups and utilizes true Windows single-sign-on.
• Save significant and valuable IT dollars spent on procuring, deploying, managing, protecting and maintaining expensive and potentially untrustworthy 3rd party roles-based delegation solutions.
• Substantially reduce the security risk that they are exposed to when they deploy 3rd party roles-based management solutions that are built in foreign countries (e.g. Russia) by non U.S. citizens.

Together Gold Finger and Active Directory finally let organizations implement a highly secure, trustworthy and cost-efficient roles-based delegation model natively in their foundational Active Directory deployments.

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