Head of Customer Support, Education, & IT/CybersecurityAbout Venafi: Keys and certificates are the least understood domain in cyber security. There are 2 actors on a network, people and machines. In general, people use user names and passwords to identify and get access to machines. Machines use keys and certificates to identify and get access to each other. Billions of dollars have been spent protecting user names and passwords and almost nothing protecting keys and certificates— organizations are just now realizing that protecting keys and certificates is as important as protecting user names and passwords, if not more important. The problem is continuing to grow-- the number of machines and things (IoT) on a network is growing very fast, much faster than the number of people.In addition to identity, keys and certificates create secure tunnels between machines that keep their communications private and most organizations don’t know where the tunnels are in their organization. The bad guys know this and are using stolen or forged keys and certificates to attack networks and steal data. In fact, Gartner says 50% of network attacks will use certificates in 2017.Venafi is the inventor of the technology that secures and protects keys and certificates and many of the largest organizations in the world use Venafi.

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