Manage Digital Certificates
The digital equivalent of an ID card used in conjunction with a public key encryption system. Also called digital IDs, digital certificates are issued by a trusted third party known as a certification authority (CA) such as VeriSign. The CA verifies that a public key belongs to a specific company or individual (the subject), and the validation process it goes through to determine if the subject is who it claims to be depends on the level of certification and the CA itself.
Venafi enables organizations to centrally manage encryption technologies and policies across a wide variety of enterprise systems—Web servers, application servers, message queuing systems, encryption appliances and others—reducing the time required to managed digital certificates from an average of 4+ hours per certificate per year to just minutes. In addition to the time savings, an automated encryption management system ensures un- or under-managed certificates do not expire unexpectedly causing critical system failures.
Additional Terms Related to Encryption, Certificate, and Key Management