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Venafi announced the debut of Venafi Zero Touch PKI, a cloud-based, turnkey solution that delivers no-touch, fully automated modern PKI. With Venafi Zero Touch PKI, users can eliminate the effort, expense and risk of traditional PKI, while still provid… Continue reading Venafi Zero Touch PKI: Eliminating the effort, expense and risk of traditional PKI
Beginning September 1st, all publicly trusted TLS certificates must have a lifespan of 398 days or less. According to security experts from Venafi, this latest change is another indication that machine identity lifetimes will continue to shrink. Since … Continue reading Reduced lifespan of TLS certificates could cause increase in outages
Commodity malware campaigns utilizing machine identities are increasing rapidly, according to threat analysis from Venafi. For example, malware attacks using machine identities doubled from 2018 to 2019, including high-profile campaigns such as: TrickB… Continue reading Malware attacks abusing machine identities grew 8x over the last 10 years
TLS certificates act as machine identities, safeguarding the flow of sensitive data to trusted machines. With the acceleration of digital transformation, the number of machine identities is skyrocketing. At the same time, cybercriminals are targeting m… Continue reading CIOs are apprehensive about interruptions due to expired machine identities
70 percent of security professionals believe their local governments cannot adequately safeguard the election infrastructure against domestic and international cyber attacks. In addition, 75 percent believe that the spread of disinformation is the grea… Continue reading Can we safeguard the election infrastructure from cyber attacks?
Venafi, the inventor and leading provider of machine identity protection, announced a definitive agreement to acquire Jetstack, a global leader in open source machine identity protection software for Kubernetes and cloud native ecosystems. This acquisi… Continue reading Venafi acquires Jetstack to bring together developer speed and enterprise security
Two leaders bring together the best of both worlds; developer speed and enterprise security SALT LAKE CITY, UT — May 14, 2020 — Venafi®, the inventor and leading provider of machine identity protection, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire… Continue reading Venafi to Acquire Jetstack to Accelerate and Secure Digital Transformation
Every machine needs a unique identity in order to authenticate itself and communicate securely with other machines. This requirement is radically changing the definition of machines—from traditional physical devices, like laptops and servers, to virtua… Continue reading What is driving the machine identity crisis?
People rely on usernames and passwords to identify themselves to machines so they can gain access to data and services. Machines also need to authenticate themselves to each other so they can communicate securely, relying on cryptographic keys and digi… Continue reading Only 54% of security pros have a written policy on length and randomness for keys for machine identities
Only 54% of security professionals admit to having a written policy on length and randomness for keys for machine identities SALT LAKE CITY – December 19, 2019 – Venafi®, the inventor and leading provider of machine identity protection, today announced… Continue reading Venafi Study: Organizations Fail to Protect Keys and Certificates as Effectively as Usernames and Passwords