Venafi Is The Best Solution For Private Key and Certificate Management
Pros
- Venafi includes features that automate the installation of certificates as well as validating the certificates to ensure that they were installed correctly. When used properly this feature will prevent certificate related outages by confirming that a valid certificate is in place and automatically installed prior to its expiration.
- Venafi includes an option for network discovery, host agents, and an onboard discovery tool that when deployed gives application owners the ability to discover and manage all private keys and certificates in their environment.
- Venafi helps an organization with its security policy enforcement and provides a method to measure compliance.
Cons
- The Venafi platform is constantly evolving through its upgrades which occur every quarter to meet client's specific needs. This is an outstanding model however the documentation that follows the upgrades could be more thorough.
Return on Investment
- An outage is a very devastating event to any large corporation and can cost millions. Venafi's ability to prevent these outages has proven to be a great return on investment for our environment and has helped protect the bottom line.
- Venafi automates certificate installation with an included feature to schedule the install in advance. This is a great benefit of the tool because it eliminates human error and prevents any forgotten or overlooked certificates to be renewed. After installation Venafi will also validate the certificate to confirm that it has been installed properly. This shows just how thorough this tool really is.
- Security compliance is of the utmost importance in a large organization for auditing purposes and certificate security policies but at times can prove to be difficult to enforce. Venafi has proven to play a pivotal role in enforcing these policies in our environment.
