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Venafi Named “Cool Vendor” in Gartner “Cool Vendors in Data and Infrastructure Protection, 2010″ Report

Venafi, the inventor of and market leader in Enterprise Key and Certificate Management (EKCM) solutions, announced today its inclusion as a “Cool Vendor” in the 2010 Cool Vendor report from Gartner, Inc.*

In the note, Gartner Research VP Eric Ouellet explains that “Large and small enterprises routinely use X.509 certificates and symmetric encryption keys to ensure trust relationships among systems, applications and users. Certificates used for server and application identity services fall into the “unmanaged” category, which means that they require complete manual oversight of certificate issuer, system name, expiry date and other details to prevent service interruptions. This can be a complex proposition when scaled up to hundreds of servers and applications owned by many different organizations within and enterprise. Many enterprises have attempted to formalize this process, using spreadsheets and the centralized registration o f all new X.509 certificate installations, but high-profile outages directly attributed to poor X.509 certificate management continue to occur.”

Venafi Encryption Director helps organizations solve the operational challenges that come from large encryption deployments.

To receive your complimentary copy of the report by email, please send a request to info@venafi.com with your name and physical address.

*Cool Vendor Disclaimer

About Gartner’s Cool Vendors Selection Process

Gartner’s listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.