Displaying items by tag: Machine identity management

GUEST OPINION: It's likely that many IT security teams didn't get much sleep during the past year. From ransomware and supply-chain attacks to email compromise and IoT incidents, the battle against cybercriminals was relentless.

Venafi's machine identity control plane has been integrated into VMware's Tanzu Service Mesh.

COMPANY NEWS: Venafi, the inventor and leader of machine identity management today announced that the open source cert-manager project has graduated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) incubation program. The incubation program will help cert-manager widen its community of contributors, expand to new use cases, improve extensibility and advance developer and user experience.

COMPANY NEWS: According to new Venafi research, 65% of organisations have changed cyber strategy in response to war in Ukraine.

GUEST OPINION: As cybercriminals hunt for new and more sophisticated ways to mount attacks, many are paying close attention to the role played by machine identities.

GUEST OPINION: When senior managers consider the best ways to protect their IT assets, it can be tempting for them to focus on tactics that will ward off brute-force attacks.

A survey conducted for machine identity management specialist Venafi found that CIOs expect the average number of machine identities per organisation to grow from 250,000 at the end of 2021 to more than 500,000 by 2024.