Security Imperatives

With the proliferation of sensitive data and in a world of hackers, organizations must recognize the imperative for digital security and protect sensitive data wherever it resides or moves.

Encryption is a critical element of any security strategy and is widely leveraged to protect data, combat emerging threats and satisfy a growing body of government and industry regulations.

Yet managing the increasing key and certificate volumes has reached a tipping point as enterprises increase encryption deployments to better safeguard information. Poorly managed, lost or stolen encryption keys can lead to failed audits, data breaches and system downtime.n.

Data Security and Protection

Automated, cost-effective enterprise data protection solutions are available to secure data. Centralized management of SSL certificates and encryption keys allows information protection to be aligned with corporate security policies and regulatory or business-partner mandates.

A much broader, systems management approach is required that accounts for the diverse systems, platforms and applications that exist throughout the infrastructure.

Such an approach will, by necessity, include automating the generation, distribution and management of keys and certificates, configuring the applications that use

them and monitoring and reporting on the status of each component being managed with logging and audit trails.

Venafi Encryption Director

When data is protected by encrypting it with a key and a SSL certificate, the private key becomes the data that must be protected. If the private key is not well managed and safeguarded, the risk of data loss or theft increases dramatically. This threat becomes particularly acute when data is protected by keys that reside in a container or “keystore” (or on multiple keystores) with shared access.

The keys that protect the data are often accessible to multiple administrators with no audit or access controls, and are often distributed widely and insecurely within organizations. This places organizations are greater risk of a data loss or breach.

Venafi invented the industry’s first enterprise-wide encryption management platform that helps organizations manage, monitor and provision keys and x.509 SSL certificates across their diverse operating and infrastructure environments and on different certificate authorities (CAs).

Director provides a centralized, heterogeneous, and secure approach to key and certificate lifecycle management.