Enforce Policies

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."

Inadequate key and certificate management undermines compliance

Insufficient resources make policy enforcement a considerable challenge

Manual management practices undermine policy enforcement at every level. Executives hand down policies to InfoSec teams, mandating the encryption of private data, without providing the tools and resources to do so. Without the benefit of those discovery capabilities, policy abstraction and corporate governance that an automated encryption management solution provides, organizations are limited in their ability to create, track, and ultimately report on policies. As a result, security policies are regularly ignored, let alone enforced.

Weak audit trails set organizations at risk of non-compliance

Increasingly, regulations are mandating that organizations ensure adherence to policies and provide proof of conformance. This is forcing many organizations to revisit their information security policies. Unfortunately, many organizations are finding that their existing policy frameworks are outdated and not aligned to their current business requirements. More importantly, they are finding that either they cannot prove enforcement or it is prohibitively expensive to do so.