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Before JumpCloud\u00ae<\/sup>, Cellulant used Active Directory (AD), but as time went on, AD was unable to keep up with the organization\u2019s changing needs. \u201cWe had Microsoft Active Directory, but it was limiting,\u201d said Michael Adesoba, former Cybersecurity Engineer at Cellulant. Because of these limitations, Adesoba began looking for alternatives, which is how he found JumpCloud. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After coming across JumpCloud, Adesoba said, \u201cI tried it out and it made sense.\u201d AD is primarily limited to on-prem infrastructure and Windows-based resources, whereas JumpCloud is cloud-based, flexible across operating systems, and includes a wide variety of features not found in AD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cOne of the main reasons I pushed for JumpCloud at the time was because it gave the information security team the flexibility to manage endpoints and users. So, the team could remotely sort out any end-user problem and\/or any identity and access problem, as long as we had internet access which we could not do with Active Directory at that time. Active Directory was a pain to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n Michael Adesoba, Former Cybersecurity Engineer, Cellulant <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Cellulant had a heterogeneous IT environment that needed to be managed more centrally, and Active Directory couldn\u2019t handle that very well. When discussing Cellulant\u2019s current environment and how JumpCloud fits into it, Adesoba stated, \u201cOn the user side of things, we have a mix of Windows and Mac. For Mac, we’re able to do things like full disc encryption, [and] we’re able to do logging because we’re able to see logs from all of those endpoints.\u201d This is a direct result of implementing JumpCloud over Active Directory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n