The use of and dependence on electronic data has increased dramatically in recent years. Organizations of all types maintain extensive financial, personally identifiable and mission-critical business data. When sensitive information is lost or compromised, organizations often pay a heavy price in missed revenue and lost customer and investor confidence. In response, nearly every enterprise application and IT system has been encryption-enabled.

With government and industry mandates for wider encryption and keys and certificates finding greater prevalence and security significance, organizations need a comprehensive, enterprise-wide key management system. Traditional approaches have proven limited, especially when keys and certificates are issued from a variety of certificate authorities and deployed across disparate systems and applications. A much broader, holistic systems management approach is required. That is where Venafi comes in.

Simplify the management of encryption technologies with Venafi Director

Venafi offers Enterprise Key and Certificate Management (EKCM) solutions via Encryption Director Products. Director provides a highly scalable enterprise-class capability to automate the management of encryption keys across heterogeneous environments. Venafi provides the only platform that allows organizations to automate discovery, monitoring, validation, management and security of the most commonly used encryption assets.

Venafi products identify and eliminate the unquantified and unmanaged risks associated with large encryption deployments, including the operational, compliance and assurance challenges associated with deprecated 1024-bit encryption keys. Director enables optimal automation with full, end-to-end provisioning and lifecycle management of complex, load balanced encryption environments as well as root certificate automation. Director supports heterogeneous certificate authorities, multiple platform deployments and various encryption types.

Proven interoperability of Venafi and NetScaler

Venafi and Citrix have partnered to create a turnkey certificate management solution. Venafi works intricately with the SSL offloading, Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise Edition (SSL VPN) and Application Firewall features integrated in Citrix NetScaler. NetScaler has been tightly woven with Venafi Director for automated key generation and distribution. Administrators can set up NetScaler hardware and virtual appliances to work closely with Venafi Director in the generation of keys, configuration of certificates, provisioning and installation of these on NetScaler.

With Venafi and NetScaler, organizations can scale encryption deployments and management functionality across the enterprise. Venafi supports hundreds of thousands of keys and certificates worldwide while NetScaler powers over 10 gigabits of SSL traffic per appliance with 2048 bit keys.