BELLEVUE, Wash., November 24, 2009 – Likewise announced today that it will host a free webinar on December 1 that discusses the challenges and benefits of securely authenticating virtual environments with Active Directory – featuring  Andras Cser, senior analyst, Forrester Research, Inc. and Manny Vellon, chief technology officer of Likewise.

The advent of virtualization technology has introduced new challenges for secure authentication on networks using Active Directory. The webinar will address how open source software can be used to help reduce costs, increase productivity, and help demonstrate compliance.

More information and registration is available at www.likewise.com/email/secure-virtual-infrastructure.html.

Forrester senior analyst, Andras Cser, advises security IT professionals as a leading expert and author on identity and access management, along with user account provisioning.

Likewise chief technology officer Manny Vellon is a co-founder of the company and has 24 years of software development and investment experience at HP and Microsoft before he started a consulting business to help startups and venture capital companies. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University.

About Likewise

Likewise provides integration and identity management solutions to improve security and operational efficiencies and to help achieve regulatory compliance in mixed networks. Likewise Open lets organizations securely authenticate Linux, Unix and Mac users with Microsoft Active Directory. Likewise Enterprise includes all the core authentication technology that comes with Likewise Open, plus world-class migration, group policy, auditing and reporting modules. More information is available at the company’s Web site, www.likewise.com.