SSL Certificate key management services
Enterprise-wide Encryption Management And Venafi Encryption Director - SSL Certificate management
In a growing and interconnected economy, the use of and dependence on electronic data has increased dramatically in recent years. Organizations of all sizes and industries maintain extensive financial, personally identifiable and mission-critical business data. When sensitive information is lost or compromised, organizations often pay a heavy price: recent high-profile security breaches and data losses have cost organizations millions in revenue and lost customer and investor confidence. These fears, along with new security policies and regulations, have driven IT professionals to deploy encryption more broadly.
Venafi allows organizations to inspect all systems throughout the infrastructure on a regular basis, and to identify previously unknown certificates and keys and add them to a master inventory list. Venafi monitors for things such as approved CAs, key lengths, time to expiration, and validity periods.
Venafi allows administrators to use meta information such as department, cost centers, policies or regulatory requirements, etc. with systems utilizing encryption. Administrators can also send proactive notifications to system owners of pending expirations. This enables enterprises to improve their change control processes and enrich ITIL and CMDB initiatives.
Regardless of the environment, Venafi products perform four major functional operations:
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Discovery Allows administrators to identify all keys and certificates automatically, so they can be brought under management. |
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Monitoring Provides comprehensive metrics detailing the state of encryption across all environments, and delivers actionable alerts to key operators and decision makers. |
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Enrollment Facilitates continuous and automatic maintenance of certificates and keys throughout all stages of their lifecycle—from request to renewal or revocation. |
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Provisioning Automatically deploys keys and certificates, and configures applications to use them according to administrator-defined policies. |
Venafi invented the industry's first automation platform allowing organizations to more effectively implement and maintain encryption throughout their varied and disparate environments.
Venafi Encryption Director represents the next-generation Systems Management for Encryption platform. As such, Director automatically deploys keys and certificates, manages the full lifecycle of these assets - from request, to renewal and revocation - and configures applications to use them according to administrator-defined policies.
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