Deployment JumpStart Description
The Venafi Encryption Director (“Director”) solution is a powerful tool in helping to get your encryption environment under control. In order to more quickly unlock the potential of this tool, Venafi Professional Services will assist you creating an inventory of a subset of your encryption technology and placing a portion of the systems under management. Working side by side with your team, Venafi Professional Services will help you see immediate results from Director and position you to complete the deployment of Director throughout your enterprise. The outcome of this engagement is the establishment of a repeatable and automated method to managing certificates.
This service will be performed by a Venafi Consultant at the customer location in two separate five (5) day on site visits as well as time spent offsite.
Tasks
- Deployment planning: The Venafi Consultant will work with the customer’s project team to outline the steps needed to perform the deployment and agree on tasks, resources, and timelines for the duration of the engagement. This will be a pre-planning meeting that will be used to discuss prerequisites for the first five (5) day on site visit.
- Implementation: The Venafi Consultant will install and configure Director on a customer system.
- Process Development: The Venafi Consultant will work with the customer’s project team to develop and configure a basic certificate management and an ongoing discovery process.
- Targeted Discovery: The Venafi Consultant will work with the project team to perform a limited Discovery. Systems in immediate danger of outage may be identified at this stage.
- Deployment: The Venafi Consultant will place up to 100 systems under management. This task will be performed during the second five (5) day visit.
- Final Deliverable Creation: The Venafi Consultant will create a summary of the activities performed and complete a Deployment Workbook to guide the ongoing deployment and support of Director.
- Training: The Venafi Consultant will work with the project team to provide informal training, ensuring that the team is able to continue deployment of Director after the engagement is completed.
Deliverables
- Deployment Workbook: A workbook that captures the implementation and configuration decisions.
- Trip Report: A report that will provide a summary of the work done by the Venafi Consultant.
Assumptions and Limitations
- Customer will provide:
- A single technical point of contact to help the Venafi Consultant coordinate access to the required project materials and personnel.
- All necessary equipment for the execution of the project tasks.
- Involvement of the appropriate network, firewall, personnel, etc. to ensure appropriate connectivity to the target systems.
- Response in a timely fashion to questions posed by Venafi regarding the project.
- The onsite Venafi Consultant with any necessary building badges/passes, parking badges/passes and machine room badges/passes in order to carry out the service.
- A safe working environment for onsite Venafi Consultant, including a workspace, telephone, and network access, if necessary to carry out the service.
- The installation of any Venafi standard products must be done in a configuration that is currently supported by Venafi.
- Venafi consultants may perform certain activities remotely (documentation, project management, etc.) that are still considered part of the service.
- This service will be performed at a single customer location in two onsite visits of five (5) days each and five (5) days offsite. Delivery of the final deliverable may happen after the Venafi Consultant has completed all on site visits in order to ensure review.
- This service is limited to a single Certificate Authority (for Enrollment or Provisioning editions) and installation of Director in a single environment.
Terms and Conditions
This service is offered subject to the standard terms of Venafi Professional Services, in effect as of the date the service is purchased by the customer.
