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Leading Analysts Firm Report Titled “X.509 Certificate Management: Avoiding Downtime and Brand Damage” is Now Available Through Venafi Website

Enterprise Key and Certificate Management Leader Venafi Hosts Resource for Market Education and Industry Best Practices

Salt Lake City, Utah – February 7, 2012

Venafi, the inventor of and market leader in enterprise key and certificate management (EKCM) solutions, today announced the availability of a report on the critical need for enterprises to deploy automated certificate discovery and management solutions. The report—X.509 Certificate Management: Avoiding Downtime and Brand Damage, published Nov. 4, 2011, by leading research firm Gartner—highlights the time, cost and vulnerabilities associated with manually reviewing and managing security certificates. The report analyzes current manual techniques, discusses methods for remediating resulting problems, and underscores the need to protect enterprise assets by automating certificate management.

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IT Staff have more access to data than their boards

65% of Respondents Acknowledge IT Departments Have Easiest Access to Sensitive Data While Data Access is restricted for other key staff, Including CEOs

London, UK – December 12, 2011

Venafi, the inventor of and market leader in Enterprise Key and Certificate Management (EKCM) solutions, today announced the second set of findings from its InfoSecurity 2011 survey. Respondents from over 500 IT professionals reported that chief executive officers of modern companies often lack access to their own sensitive data. When asked who had the easiest access to their company’s most sensitive data, 65 percent said that the IT department had the easiest access, with the CEO at 30 percent, management at 8 percent, the HR department at 7 percent and legal at 5 percent.

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Venafi Partners with Cohort Technology to Meet Increased Demand for Automated EKCM Solutions through Extensive Channel Reach

Security Expert and Distribution Partner Cohort Technology—with Broad-based Reseller and Technology Partner Network—to Offer Only Enterprise-class Key and Certificate Management Solution

London, UK – September 28, 2011

Venafi, the inventor of and market leader in Enterprise Key and Certificate Management (EKCM) solutions, today announced its strategic partnership with Cohort Technology to distribute EKCM solutions in the United Kingdom. Together, the companies will extend Venafi’s market leadership to meet the needs of Cohort Technology’s resellers and customers. Designed specifically for enterprise environments, Venafi solutions provide automated management for the widest range of digital–certificate and encryption-key technologies in use today—including digital certificates, Secure Shell (SSH) keys, and asymmetric and symmetric keys. (more…)

Recently Awarded Patent Demonstrates Venafi’s Industry-Leading R&D and Innovation in Growing EKCM Market

Patent Covers the Management of SSL Certificates across Multiple Certificate Authorities Simultaneously—Delivering Improved Security, Operational Efficiency and Disaster Recovery for Enterprise Organizations

Salt Lake City, Utah – September 8, 2011

Venafi, the inventor and market leader of enterprise key and certificate management (EKCM) solutions, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent covering the company’s intellectual property for managing the enrollment and provisioning of digital certificates from multiple certificate authorities (CAs) through a common interface. The patented technology supports a crucial component in the Venafi Encryption Director™ 6 (Director 6) platform, which provides out–of–the box discovery, monitoring, validation, management and provisioning capabilities for the widest range of digital certificate and encryption key technologies. (more…)