Venafi Demonstrates Comprehensive “Vendor Neutral” Enterprise Key and Certificate Management Platform at RSA Conference

Attendees at RSA Conference 2010 among the first to see a new technical overview detailing features and functionality of Venafi Encryption Director

San Francisco, California – SPECIAL TO RSA – March 2, 2010

If you went back a few years and asked IT pros what the biggest challenge facing the enterprises as they increased their usage and implementation of encryption technologies, chances are they would tell you it would be figuring out how to scalably manage keys and certificates such that the operational burden wouldn’t overwhelm their labor resources and so they didn’t experience downtime due to unexpected expirations. Three years ago, Venafi, Inc. introduced Venafi Encryption Director to address these and many other challenges created by the need to scale encryption. Fast forward to 2010.

Today, Venafi Encryption Director manages over a hundred thousand keys and certificates at just one of its high-profile customers that include some of the world’s largest organizations in financial services, insurance, high tech, telecommunications, government, airline, aerospace, healthcare, food services and retail.

Attendees of RSA Conference 2010 are getting a first-hand look at the new, in-depth 28-page technical overview describing detailed features and functionality of the systems management platform for encryption that SC Magazine named one of its 2010 Innovators. For a free copy visit Venafi in booth #2345.

“As the number of encryption-enabled applications and platforms grows the enterprise is struggling just to keep up,” says Venafi CEO Trell Rohovit. “Venafi Encryption Director offers built-in best practices and helps organizations effectively deploy, manage, and control encryption from the desktop to the data center, across a number of encryption types and providers.”

Venafi products perform four major functional operations in order to deliver comprehensive Systems Management for Encryption, those include:

Discovery – Allows administrators to identify all keys and certificates automatically, so they can be brought under management
Monitoring – Provides comprehensive metrics detailing the state of encryption across all environments, and delivers actionable alerts to key operators and decision makers
Monitoring – Provides comprehensive metrics detailing the state of encryption across all environments, and delivers actionable alerts to key operators and decision makers
Enrollment – Facilitates continuous and automatic maintenance of certificates and keys throughout all stages of their lifecycle – from request to renewal or revocation via patented ties to the world’s leading certificate authorities
Provisioning – Automatically deploys keys and certificates, and configures applications to use them according to administrator-defined policies

Venafi was recently awarded two additional patents to protect the innovative aspects of this industry-first platform.

The company is also educating the market through Simon the IT Dummy, the unofficial spokesman for Venafi. Simon is a fictitious character who uses Dilbert-like humor to represent the IT “everyman.” Employees everywhere enjoy Simon’s hapless adventures as his superiors force him to manage IT manually rather using automated solutions that would let him devote his energy to strategic and meaningful tasks.

Simon is making live appearances at RSA in Venafi Booth #2345.