Professional Services Methodology

Deployment of Systems Management for Encryption is faster and more effective with Venafi Professional Services. Working with customers across many different industries, Venafi has developed a methodology based on industry best practices. This methodology enables organizations to minimize the amount of time they spend on the initial implementation, so they can focus on projects that will help them grow their business. This methodology is detailed below.

Plan

Venafi consultants help organizations identify the right stakeholders and develop a plan to provide guidance during deployment. Venafi will work to identify the business drivers, link them to project goals and objectives, and highlight any critical success factors. By documenting an organization's existing processes for managing encryption, Venafi can design and implementation configuration that will limit the amount of change and minimize disruptions. With a sound project management methodology, Venafi focuses on the business problem to ensure an organization's goals are met or exceeded, and realizes the quickest ROI.

Discover

Venafi consultants will lead organizations through an initial discovery of their encryption environment, allowing them to assess their situation and potentially uncover imminent failures (e.g., digital certificates that are about to expire). A full enterprise discovery will then document the existing state of encryption and provide the first step in controlling it.

Manage

Venafi consultants will lead the effort to map an organization's existing encryption deployment workflow into the management capabilities of Systems Management for Encryption, and help them realize the benefits of full lifecycle management. The phased approach of Venafi allows enterprises to work with other parts of their organization (e.g., application owners, data owners, network staff, etc.) to ensure full coordination and reduce unnecessary concerns. Venafi will help implement the right level of automation for different parts of an environment-from notification to full lifecycle management.

Monitor

Venafi consultants will help IT teams develop a support plan for ongoing Systems Management for Encryption. Venafi will provide recommendations on continuous discovery within your encryption environment to ensure no unauthorized encryption technologies emerge. Venafi will also help organizations define and implement a set of reports that they can use to demonstrate-to management and any internal or external auditors-that their encryption environment is properly managed and is meeting compliance, regulatory, and internal policy requirements.