Featured Whitepapers
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How to Avoid the High Cost of Security Audits
Modern computing is governed by a number of security regulations. These particularly affect companies offering services to the government, processing credit card payments, or handling medical or financial records. The majority of these regulations are centered on identity and policy management. Learn more about the advantages and disadvantages of using Likewise Enterprise and Open Source tools for making Microsoft Windows a common ground for storage, management, and monitoring of policies governing non‐Windows environments. -
Managing Group Policies for Non‐Windows Computers through Microsoft Active Directory
Currently, midsize and large enterprises have to manage identities and policies uniformly across a heterogeneous platform base. This need arises from increasing node management costs, the desire to improve security posture, and industry regulatory requirements. Administrators can use Open Source tools or professional, scalable, and supported solutions like Likewise Enterprise when standardizing identity management on Windows. The present paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches. -
Using Likewise Enterprise to Comply with PCI Data Security Standards
Learn how Likewise Enterprise and Microsoft Active Directory can foster compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, by meeting requirements for strict control of access to customer data, authentication of business users, access monitoring, network security, and system resource auditing. -
Using Likewise Enterprise to Improve Compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley
This whitepaper outlines some general controls that you can develop to improve your IT Sarbanes-Oxley compliance effort — and shows you how Likewise can quickly and easily implement a number of these controls to reduce risk and foster compliance in mixed networks. -
Single Sign-On for Kerberized Linux/UNIX Applications
Learn how Likewise Enterprise facilitates the implementation of enterprise single sign-on (SSO). And how Kerberos-aware applications can be configured to exploit the authentication infrastructure provided by Likewise Enterprise. -
Likewise Enterprise 4.0 Security Benefits
This whitepaper describes how Likewise Enterprise improves the security of Linux and UNIX computers by allowing computers to authenticate and authorize users through Microsoft Active Directory™.
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Manny Vellon
Chief Technology Officer
Manny is a co-founder of Likewise Software and has 24 years of software development and investment experience. At HP he was a developer for the Personal Software Division, where he worked on embedded terminal software, word processors and database products. At Microsoft, Manny first worked as a program manager on the software development kit for Microsoft Windows 1.0 with the mission of facilitating the development of Windows applications.
