Certificate Manager ™

Analyst Coverage

"Admittedly this is a complex topic, but the most important takeaway is this: the risk-based evaluation your company needs to make right now is not about your vulnerability to the Flame virus; it is about your vulnerability to MD5-signed certificates. If you are confident in knowing how many of these there are, and where they are, and what systems are potentially at risk as a result – well done." Full Report

"Organizations with roughly 200 or more documented X.509 certificates in use are high-risk candidates for unplanned expiry and having certificates that have been purchased but not deployed." Full Report

"To support the broader deployment of encryption, organizations with top performance have looked towards increased automation and centralized, heterogeneous approaches to key lifecycle management. Venafi is well-aligned with this Best-in-Class approach."

"Venafi's primary differentiator is its broad entity support for systems that utilize asymmetric keys and certificates. In addition, it implements flexible key lifecycle policies and administration functionality and automated discovery of keys and certificates in systems that support such activity."

"Venafi offers compelling advantages, such as being the early mover in this market, with proven deployments at marquee customers demonstrating its ability to scale and provide breadth of integration."

"When there are many hundreds of certificates from a variety of certificate authorities, the only ecumenical [universal], nonproprietary provider of a certificate management solution is Venafi. Other CA management systems are biased toward the particular CA by, for example, only supporting renewals from that specific CA." Full Report

"The emphasis on orchestration, in tandem with its scalability and interoperability, is tied to the evolution of Venafi's competitive landscape, and to the potential to frame its value in the context of risk management."

Overview

Venafi Encryption Director™ Certificate Manager™ (Director Certificate Manager) enables organizations to rapidly develop an accurate digital certificate inventory and identify security and operational risks. Additionally, organizations can quickly evaluate their compliance with corporate and regulatory policies and establish a concise methodology to ensure compliance. With built-in management and policy best practices, Director Certificate Manager helps eliminate data breaches, security audit failures and unplanned system outages.

Director Certificate Manager enables organizations to quickly quantify their digital certificate and private key-related risk. Once quantified, it is possible to manage that risk and drastically reduce exposure. Director Certificate Manager is built on the Director platform, which for nearly a decade has enabled many of the world’s largest organizations to manage their encryption environments effectively.

Benefits

Compliance

Enforce approved CAs, key strengths, and validity periods, while admins and auditors are notified when policies are modified or violated.

Data Security Management

Protect mission–critical and regulated data from loss, misuse and theft.

Incident Prevention & Reporting

Notify the right people at the right time, with escalations based on configurable policies and rules via email or SNMP.

Catastrophic Incident Recovery

Discover expired or soon–to–expire SSL certificates and private keys on failover and disaster recovery sites. Quickly migrate thousands of certificates or CAs and provision new certificates rapidly with one-click replacement functionality.

Automated Lifecycle Management

Automatically deploy encryption keys and SSL certificates and manage the full lifecycle of these assets–from request, to renewal and revocation.

Reduced Workload IT Automation

Turn five-hour SSL certificate management projects into a five-minute tasks in order to reallocate valuable, full–time employees to more strategic, priority initiatives–as well as decrease errors caused by manual work.