Machine identity stories

Venafi release aids security teams with machine identity management
Wed, 19th Apr 2023
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venafi
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it management
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high speed data
Venafi introduces Firefly, the only lightweight machine identity issuer for highly distributed, cloud native environments.

Why machine identity management is key to secure service mesh deployment?
Wed, 15th Feb 2023
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digital transformation
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multi-cloud
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mesh network
During challenging business conditions, cloud projects offer much-needed opportunities for efficient growth, productivity enhancements, and greater agility.

Venafi's TLS Protect for Kubernetes secures machine identities
Thu, 26th Jan 2023
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venafi
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tls
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machine identity
Venafi has launched TLS Protect for Kubernetes, enabling secure management of machine identities in multi-cloud and multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.

Venafi’s cloud-native machine identity management on VMware
Thu, 26th Jan 2023
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multi-cloud
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transport layer security
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venafi
Integration of Venafi’s control plane for machine identity management into Tanzu Service Mesh makes it easier to enable multi-cloud, multi-cluster security.

Cert-manager graduates to CNCF incubation programme
Fri, 21st Oct 2022
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cloud security
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cybersecurity
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open source
Cert-manager, the standard for TLS machine identity management in cloud native services, multi-cluster environments, achieves key maturity milestone.

Cyberwar a growing concern for organisations - Venafi
Fri, 26th Aug 2022
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cybersecurity
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venafi
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cyber threats
Venafi's research reveals growing use of machine identities in state-sponsored cyber attacks amid increasing geopolitical tensions.

Digital transformation drives rise of machine identities
Wed, 13th Apr 2022
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digital transformation
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venafi
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research
Digital transformation is driving an average of 42% annual growth in the number of machine identities, according to a new study from Venafi.

In data we trust - or do we? The human-machine relationship examined
Wed, 24th Nov 2021
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bi
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data analytics
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martech
As a society, we have all individually developed significant yet quiet relationships over the past decade, many of us without even realising it.

Rise of the machine identities
Mon, 11th Oct 2021
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devops
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multi-cloud
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gartner
Bots and infrastructure-as-code automation are common additions to the business landscape, and their explosion has not gone unnoticed by threat actors.

Machine identities increasingly exploited, new research finds
Tue, 11th Aug 2020
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malware
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devops
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pam
Malware attacks exploiting machine identities have doubled between 2018 and 2019, says Venafi. Machine-identity-based attacks grew eightfold in the past decade.

CIOs put too much trust in TLS certificates - survey
Fri, 3rd Jul 2020
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devops
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cybersecurity
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venafi
Despite the prolific usage of TLS certificates within organisations, many CIOs aren't concerned about security risks associated with TLS machine identities.

Unprotected machine identities costing firms billions - report
Tue, 3rd Mar 2020
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cybersecurity
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venafi
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global economy
Fixing machine identities could save firms up to $72bn, Venafi-AIR study reveals.

Four mistakes that can plague PKI administrators
Tue, 17th Dec 2019
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venafi
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public key infrastructure
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machine identity
These mistakes increase security risks and negatively impact the reliability and availability of business-critical network resources, Venafi has found.

75% of DevOps professionals say certificate issuance policies slow them down
Mon, 16th Dec 2019
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devops
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project management
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app development
Less than half of DevOps professionals believe developers always request certificates that serve as machine identities through authorised channels.

Venafi announces guarantee for no certificate-related outages
Wed, 14th Aug 2019
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venafi
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certification
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machine identity
Eliminating certificate-related outages within complex, multi-tiered architectures can feel like an impossible effort.

Keyfactor and Thales announce integration to fight code signing cyber-attacks
Tue, 18th Jun 2019
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devops
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iot security
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project management
Keyfactor & Thales team up to fortify code signing, warding off cyber threats like the ASUS hack.

SSL/TLS certificate marketplaces thriving on dark web - study
Thu, 7th Mar 2019
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dark web
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iam
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venafi
These services deliver machine-identities-as-a-service to cybercriminals who wish to spoof websites, eavesdrop on encrypted traffic, perform man-in-the-middle attacks and steal sensitive data.

Venafi and nCipher Security partner on machine identity protection
Wed, 20th Feb 2019
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iam
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venafi
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partnerships
Cryptographic keys serve as machine identities and are the foundation of enterprise information technology systems.

Study: 80% of enterprises struggle to protect machine identities
Tue, 4th Sep 2018
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venafi
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enterprise security
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study
The study focused on enterprise machine identity protection challenges and included responses from 350 senior IT security professionals.

Exclusive: Venafi talks weaponisation of machine identities
Wed, 29th Aug 2018
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hackers
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venafi
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certification
As companies integrate more digital tools into their business, many of them remain unaware of the risk code-signing certificates are exposing them to.