Venafi - The Company

Overview

Digital information has transformed into one of the most crucial business assets an organization owns. As a result, protecting critical information and its availability is now a strategic business imperative. Encryption is the most pervasive technology employed today for protecting data. In fact, while encryption was once used almost exclusively to protect information using SSL certificates and symmetric and asymmetric keys to scramble data, now it is also used in authentication mechanisms to confirm the identity of a user or a device, and for digital signing to ensure the integrity, authenticity and non-repudiation of data.

The new mandates regulatory bodies are layering on firms requiring that they secure specific types and classes of data are causing an upsurge in the use of encryption. For example, nearly half of US States have passed laws forcing companies to notify individuals whenever certain types of unencrypted customer data are lost or stolen. Organizations that have had to report such breaches, have seen substantial deterioration of their reputations, and seen sharp declines in stock valuations. Encryption is the tool-of-choice for meeting these new requirements.

The ever-growing use of encryption is creating new challenges to manage increased complexity. Venafi software helps organizations protect vital information assets and critical systems from compromise and failure in a cost-effective and scalable manner by automating many of the most common manual tasks associated with managing encryption.

Current Solution Areas

Venafi invented systems management for encryption to help organizations simplify the management of encryption technologies across their diverse operating systems and infrastructure environments—from the desktop to the datacenter. The offering, Venafi Encryption Director™, automate SSL certificate management and enterprise key management processes, including discovery, monitoring, alerts, lifecycle management and automated application configuration. This helps organizations increase data security, reduce downtime and improve operational efficiency.

Venafi solutions are used to manage mission-critical encryption systems at some of the world’s most prestigious organizations in industries, including financial services, insurance, high tech, telecommunications, government, airline, aerospace, healthcare, food services and retail.