Venafi Server Encryption Manager :: IBM WebSphere MQ
IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ) is one of the central components of many organizations' IT infrastructures, and supports mission-critical information and processes, including the data involved in ATM and credit card transactions, healthcare systems, utilities management, and other critical applications. Due to the sensitive nature of much of the information that passes through WMQ in support of these applications, implementing proper security for WMQ is crucial. Furthermore, new regulations, more distributed systems, and increasing concern about protecting against insider threats are driving the need for organizations to increase the security of their WMQ environments.
In spite of the need to increase security, many organizations are struggling to implement security effectively for WMQ due to the operational risk and administrative overhead typically associated with deploying and managing encryption. According to a recent Venafi survey, it takes administrators an average of 4+ hours per year to properly deploy and manage each digital certificate. The challenge is exacerbated by the sheer size of many WMQ environments-literally requiring hundreds, or even thousands of devices to be reconfigured-each with its own certificate. At 4+ hours per certificate, it would take over one entire man year to properly secure a 500-node WMQ environment. Hence, while failure to implement encryption would likely cause some organizations to fail audits, most are unable to undertake the project due to the number of IT staff required to implement or maintain such a project. To solve this challenge many organizations are turning to the automation solutions provided by Venafi and its Systems Management for Encryption platform.
Venafi Systems Management for Encryption enables organization to properly secure their WMQ environments in a scalable, cost-effective manner. By automating the manual tasks associated with deploying, managing, monitoring, and renewing certificate-based encryption, Venafi helps organizations secure their WMQ environments, while improving operational costs and efficiency by reducing the average time required to manage individual certificates to just minutes, allowing IT departments to spend their precious time on other initiatives.
By automating the manual processes associated with managing encryption to secure an organization's WMQ environment, Venafi delivers comprehensive Systems Management for Encryption to:
- + Increase operational efficiency
- + Reduce operating costs and errors
- + Significantly reduce system failure due to un- or under-managed encryption
- + Improve compliance and data security through continuous monitoring and reporting