Large organizations spend hundreds of thousands of dollars procuring encryption certificates each year.

These costs can be reduced by consolidating certificate procurement in order to secure volume pricing from CA vendors, or by replacing high cost certificates with lower-cost alternatives, where appropriate.

Unfortunately, certificate procurement in most organizations is decentralized and piece-meal, where no single individual or group knows exactly what the organization is purchasing. In addition, changing from one CA vendor to another generally involves cost-prohibitive migration processes.

As a result, organizations feel trapped due to the ensuing vendor lock-in.

Best Practices and Incident Prevention

Venafi Encryption Director makes it simple to discover and catalog all discoverable certificates and issuing CAs. Inventory reports provide the data necessary

to determine the most cost-effective CA vendor mix.

Using the patented technology in Director, organizations can execute one-click certificate migrations from current CA(s) to any of the many popular CAs supported natively in Director—in case of vulnerability or best practice changes —either immediately or upon certificate expiration.

This capability allows for flexible strategic sourcing, enabling the business to make decisions based on the right technology and not simply on the basis of the least expensive or disruptive implementation.

Current Venafi customers have saved hundreds of thousands of dollars by leveraging the CA spend management and one-click migration capabilities in Director.