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Venafi Debuts Enterprise-Class Machine Identity Protection for Mobile EndpointsVenafi®, the leading provider of machine identity protection, today announced the debut of Venafi Enterprise Mobility Protect, a new solution that safeguards the machine identities used on endpoints that access enterprise networks and resources. Venafi Enterprise Mobility Protect will be available on July 2, 2018 and delivers continuous visibility and comprehensive machine identity intelligence across all authorized mobile devices, including those that are owned by employees (Bring Your Own Device or BYOD). With Venafi Enterprise Mobility Protect, organizations can protect the machine identities on mobile endpoints by managing device certificates through a central certificate security platform. The Venafi Platform delivers comprehensive certificate visibility, issuance, distribution, and policy enforcement, as well as the control needed to terminate access for unauthorized users and employees. The enterprise-class machine identity protection solution for mobile devices also maximizes flexibility by supporting all industry-leading certificate authorities. Key benefits of Venafi Enterprise Mobility Protect include:
Endpoints on enterpris networks - such as Windows, Mac, iOS and Android devices - need access to corporate resources to keep employees connected and productive. In order to protect the communication between enterprise networks and the increasing number of mobile endpoints, organizations must provide mobile devices of all types with secure machine identities that support authentication, encryption and decryption. However, if the digital certificates that serve as machine identities for these mobile devices are issued outside of enterprise policy, are not tracked, or are left unrevoked after use, they become prime targets for cyber criminals who can compromise them and then use them to access critical enterprise systems and data. These issues can be especially problematic with employee-owned devices. "As businesses embrace BYOD policies, organizations have multiple teams issuing and using machine identities for mobile devices," said Kevin Bocek, vice president of security strategy and threat intelligence at Venafi. "Venafi makes it possible for security teams to include employee-owned and corporate owned mobile endpoints in their machine identity protection strategy. With Enterprise Mobility Protect, security teams can be confident that all machine identities used for mobile devices, laptops, desktops, VPNs, WiFi (News - Alert) and NAC authentication are secure. This allows all machine identities for mobile devices to be protected and comply with policy throughout their entire lifecycle, regardless of who owns the device or which team issues and manages the machine identity." Resources: Web: Venafi Enterprise Mobility Protect Datasheet: Prevent Unauthorized Access by Protecting Endpoint Machine Identities About Venafi Venafi is the cyber security market leader in machine identity protection, securing connections and communications between machines. Venafi protects machine identity types by orchestrating cryptographic keys and digital certificates for SSL/TLS, IoT, mobile and SSH. Venafi provides global visibility of machine identities and the risks associated with them for the extended enterprise - on premises, mobile, virtual, cloud and IoT - at machine speed and scale. Venafi puts this intelligence into action with automated remediation that reduces the security and availability risks connected with weak or compromised machine identities while safeguarding the flow of information to trusted machines and preventing communication with machines that are not trusted. With over 30 patents, Venafi delivers innovative solutions for the world's most demanding, security-conscious Global 5000 organizations, including the top five U.S. health insurers; the top five U.S. airlines; four of the top five U.S., U.K. and South African banks; and four of the top five U.S. retailers. For more information, visit: http://venafi.com. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180628005015/en/ |
