| 03 May 2011
Your first probable reaction after listening to Mr Calum MacLeod, Director EMEA is to heave a sigh of relief and nod your head in conviction that Venafi is not just in business for profit’s sake, but on a mission to harmonize, where there is no harmony, standardize, where there is no standardization and to protect, where there is no protection, especially in an industry that appears to lack all these or perhaps, proper to say, cares less about all these. Absence or near absence of these virtues in the information security world he said makes Venafi to canvass best practice and standardization, “so the idea of everybody doing whatever they like doesn’t arise anymore.”
Venafi could also be on a mission to wake the digital information industry up from its slumber as the growing use of encryption is currently creating new challenges to manage increased complexity within the industry.
Here is where Venafi comes in, said MacLeod: “Venafi software helps organizations protect vital information assets and critical systems from compromise and failure in a cost–effective and scalable manner by automating many of the most common manual tasks associated with managing encryption.”
MacLeod thinks Venafi’s campaign of protecting critical information has now more that ever become a strategic business imperative and told Vigilance that encryption is the most pervasive technology employed by many in the industry today to protect data.
According to MacLeod, while encryption hitherto was used almost exclusively to protect information using SSL certificates and symmetric and asymmetric keys to scramble data, he said it is now used also in authentication mechanisms to confirm the identity of a user or a device, and for digital signing to ensure the integrity, authenticity and non-repudiation of data.
Venafi, he said, is the inventor of and market leader in Enterprise Key and Certificate Management (EKCM) solutions.