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On Demand: Case Study Webinar: “Security and Availability: Certificate and Key Management at First Data and Cisco”

The following customer case study session was presented live at the 2011 RSA Conference in San Francisco: “Security and Availability: Certificate and Key Management at First Data and Cisco.” Over one hundred RSA Conference delegates attended the presentation and a lively discussion ensued during the question and answer portion, with number of valuable questions from the audience. Paul Turner of Venafi served as the session moderator.

“Increased dependence on encryption in security–conscious organizations heightens the need for enterprise management solutions. First Data has always focused on protecting customer data, but struggled to manage its growing certificate inventory. Manual methods led to failures on authentication systems. Cisco Systems uses thousands of keys & certificates to secure communications and protect data, but manual key management proved error–prone. Learn how Cisco and First Data learned valuable lessons in their search for enterprise certificate and key management solutions, and reduced the unquantifiable and unmanaged risks associated with encryption deployments.”

Session Speakers:

Alex Wight, Cisco

Alex Wight has 12+ years experience architecting, implementing and supporting various PKI systems and security policies for a wide range of industries. Wight is Cisco’s lead PKI Architect and is responsible for the design and implementation of numerous PKI initiatives. Prior to joining Cisco, Alex was a Senior Consultant for Identrust, Inc. and Digital Signature Trust Co.

Kale Feelhaver, First Data Corporation

Kale and his team manage symmetric and asymmetric encryption keys, associated encryption hardware and internal operations of key and certificate management across FDC business units. Kale’s team is working towards a global key management strategy encompassing all encryption keys used throughout their organization.

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About Venafi

Venafi is the inventor of and market leader in Enterprise Key and Certificate Management (EKCM) solutions. Venafi delivered the first enterprise–class solution to automate the provisioning, discovery, monitoring and management of digital certificates and encryption keys—from the datacenter to the cloud and beyond—built specifically for encryption management interoperability across heterogeneous environments. Venafi products reduce the unquantified and unmanaged risks associated with encryption deployments that result in data breaches, security audit failures and unplanned system outages. Venafi also publishes best practices for effective key and certificate management at www.venafi.com/best-practices. Venafi customers include the world’s most prestigious Global 2000 organizations in financial services, insurance, high tech, telecommunications, aerospace, healthcare and retail. Venafi is backed by top–tier venture capital funds, including Foundation Capital, Pelion Venture Partners and Origin Partners. For more information, visit www.venafi.com.