Comprehensive Venafi Control Plane Helps Modern Organizations Address Complex Cloud Native and Post-Quantum Challenges
Venafi, the creator of machine identity management, announced today the release of a set of ground-breaking advances within its Control Plane for Machine Identities. These innovations, which were announced at the Machine Identity Management Summit 2023, expand Venafi’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) machine identity management platform, enabling security and platform teams to accelerate modernization and protect their organisations from the challenges of cloud native adoption, the rise of AI, the post-quantum era, and more.
“Organizations today are facing unparalleled challenges when it comes to navigating and managing machine identities,” said Shivajee Samdarshi, chief product officer of Venafi. “
These new platform capabilities assist modern organisations in meeting the increasing needs of complex cloud environments and post-quantum safety, strengthening Venafi’s leadership in the field with unrivalled innovation as the only true SaaS machine identity management platform.”
The enhanced Venafi Control Plane introduces significant advancements, providing organisations with a comprehensive solution for managing machine identities of all types across any machine, any team, and any environment – including lifecycle management, authentication, authorization, and governance. Among the new capabilities are:
- Venafi Quantum Protect – The new Quantum Protect from Venafi protects against future quantum-related threats. The solution provides full professional services to assist organisations in making the transition to quantum-resistant cryptographic methods, tackling the evolving dangers of quantum computing, and ensuring the security of machine identities, data, and communication networks. Visit https://venafi.com/quantum-protect-readiness-evaluation/ to begin your quantum-readiness assessment..
- Next-Generation Experience for TLS Protect for Kubernetes – TLS Protect for Kubernetes is now fully integrated into the Venafi Control Plane and is designed to manage cloud native machine identities such as TLS and SPIFFE across all of an enterprise’s multi-cloud and multi-cluster Kubernetes settings. This gives security teams a uniform platform from which to more efficiently monitor security workflows, increase policy efficiency, and provide complete reporting of all machine identities in Kubernetes environments. Visit https://venafi.com/try-venafi/tls-protect-for-kubernetes-preview/ to obtain early access to TLS Protect for Kubernetes.
- Control Plane as a Service Availability in U.S. and EU Regions – Venafi’s Control Plane as a Service is now available in both the United States and Europe. Its SaaS architecture is intended to assure regional feature parity and rapid evolution. This new feature incorporates GDPR and data sovereignty compliance in European locations, allowing for more accessibility while adhering to high data privacy and compliance rules. Visit https://venafi.com/try-venafi/tls-protect/ to sign up for a free trial.
- Dev Central – Venafi’s Dev Central helps developers by putting all of Venafi’s REST APIs, user guides, examples, and documentation in one place. This new hub allows developers to interact with the Venafi Control Plane quickly and easily, bridging the gap between security and platform teams.
- Native Support for Public Clouds via Venafi Firefly – Venafi Firefly, the only lightweight machine identity issuer supporting highly distributed, cloud native environments, has released a new version that allows VMs running in AWS (EC2), Azure, and Google Cloud to exchange instance identity documents issued by the cloud provider for X.509 certificates issued by Venafi Firefly. Security teams can eliminate reliance on OpenID Connect (OIDC) providers and credentials by providing an alternative to JWT-based authentication. Visit https://venafi.com/try-venafi/firefly/ to sign up for a free trial.
- VCert 5.1 – Venafi has published version 5.1 of the VCert CLI, an Apache 2.0 open source project based on the popular VCert SDK for Golang. The most recent VCert improvements enable smooth automation for system owners and administrators via a dynamic playbook feature that supports automated certificate installation, renewal, and post-installation actions for TLS server and mTLS endpoint use cases. Venafi Firefly certificate issuance is now supported by VCert, providing for flexible integration across all TLS Protect systems.
- Long Term Support for cert-manager – Cert-manager, a popular open source cloud native solution for automating TLS and mTLS certificate issuance and renewal, is now available with long-term support from Venafi. This new capability includes a fully supported, signed, and FIPS-compliant distribution of cert-manager to increase Kubernetes platform efficiency and DevOps workload security.