Pressure Driving Data Protection

With the proliferation of sensitive data and a world of increasingly sophisticated and malicious hackers, companies must recognize the imperative for digital security, and monitor the associated organizational obligation and risk of protecting the data—where ever is resides or moves—more diligently than ever before.

The task of managing the extensive business data is compounded as information is regularly accessed and modified by individuals, both from within and outside the organization.

Policy Compliance and Audit Enforcement

Compliance with government, industry and organizational policies and regulations is consuming more and more of the security practitioners time, often at the expense of strategic business activities.

These regulatory and security concerns are driving organizations to deploy encryption more broadly than ever before. This has led to a spike in the number of keys and digital certificates being deployed to encrypt data, and managing these certificates is creating a tremendous burden on IT operations teams.

Most of the best-known industry regulations are, at their heart, written to ensure the security of critical data. Encryption is mandated by most of these laws to secure data. But if the encryption is not properly managed, organizations may

not be compliant with regulations, and their data may not be secure.

In order to maintain compliance, management systems must allow administrators to set policies, enforce the application of those policies and audit ongoing operations in relation to those policies.

Venafi Encryption Director

Venafi Encryption Director provides an extensive hierarchical policy framework and allows every configuration element to be either “locked,” “suggested” or left “open.” This way, mandatory enterprise-wide encryption policies can be established, enforced and inherited down to individual systems. Divisional, departmental or group policies can also be set and locked in the same manner.

Divisional, departmental or group policies can also be set and locked in the same manner. Items such as approved CAs, key strengths, and validity periods are among the configuration elements Director can enforce and report on.

Director also notifies administrators, managers, business owners and auditors whenever pre-defined policies are modified or violated configuration elements Director can enforce and report on. Director also notifies administrators, managers, business owners and auditors whenever pre-defined policies are modified or violated.