Catastrophic Incident Recovery

The work of encryption security experts has uncovered weaknesses in the RSA 1024 and DES algorithms, identified vulnerabilities in Debian Linux, and more recently, discovered an MD5 collision hack.

In light of these developments, responsible executives and managers must ask themselves:

• + “What is our disaster recovery plan for digital certificates and keys?”
• + “How could we quickly migrate from one certificate type or CA to another if a new threat requires it?”

Venafi Encryption Director

With Venafi Encryption Director administrators can manage complex certificate types and CA combinations.

Should the need arise, Director can quickly migrate thousands of certificates or CAs, and do so without an army of administrators.

and rules—ensuring the responsible parties always know the status of each encryption object.

Director also provides the native ability to discover expired or soon-to-expire certificates that reside on failover and DR sites, and allows IT operations administrators to provision replacement certificates rapidly.

Administrators, managers and business units can operate with greater confidence with the recovery and one-click certificate replacement functionality in Director.