Venafi Inc., inventor of systems management for encryption, today announced an OEM agreement with IBM under which it will embed IBM Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager (TKLM) into its encryption management platform. This expanded functionality will help organizations better manage encryption across their diverse operating environments and infrastructure by enabling the Venafi platform to deliver and manage symmetric encryption keys for tape and disk storage systems in addition to the asymmetric keys and certificates it already manages.
Under the agreement, Venafi will integrate IBM's TKLM software-used to serve keys at the time of use to IBM tape and disk storage devices-with its own technology to deliver the market a unique new offering. The Venafi management platform is currently used by many of the world's leading organizations to automate the management of digital certificates and related keys across a variety of enterprise applications and systems, including IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server, IBM Tivoli Access Manager, IBM WebSphere MQ server and client, as well as applications and platforms from many other vendors.
"Customers want a holistic enterprise encryption and key management platform to address data security in a comprehensive manner, including management of encryption keys for their encrypted tape and disk environments, as well as other critical systems and applications that make up their infrastructure," said Kris Lovejoy, director of corporate security strategy, IBM. "Leveraging IBM's software, Venafi can better help customers automate the tedious processes required to manage the lifecycle of encryption assets such as certificates and private keys. This integration can provide customers a more holistic view of the encryption in use throughout their organizations."
Encryption is critical for protecting both active and stored data, but far too many companies are still managing this encryption and associated encryption keys manually - if at all. This often results in systems failure, data loss, security lapses and non-compliance with regulations and industry standards, according to Trell Rohovit, Venafi president & CEO.
"Venafi recognized a long time ago that taking a systems management approach to this problem and architecting accordingly would allow it to plug-in and manage various key issuance and encryption systems from a variety of vendors," Rohovit said. "The Venafi Systems Management for Encryption platform demystifies encryption for operations folks, allowing them to address the operational management challenges without a deep understanding of cryptography."
"Integrating TKLM into our platform not only provides a more comprehensive encryption management system for IBM customers but it further validates the importance of that more comprehensive management in the first place," he added.
More on Venafi and the IBM Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager (TKLM)
TKLM centralizes and automates the encryption key management process for self-encrypting storage offerings from IBM. The system serves keys at the time of use to storage systems in order to maintain centralized management and assure the security of key material. With the Venafi integration, users will be able to centrally create, import, distribute, back up, archive and manage the lifecycle of the certificates associated with those keys. Venafi currently automates the issuance, installation and maintenance of the asymmetric keys and certificates TKLM currently uses to protect symmetric keys managed by the TKLM server. Through the patented Venafi integration with the world's leading certificate authorities, including IBM PKI Services for z/OS (IBM's ultra-secure CA on z), these certificates are automatically provisioned, tracked and managed by the Venafi system.
The Venafi OEM agreement supports IBM's strategy to work with independent software vendors to embed IBM software into their own offerings to help save time and money on development and speed time to market. IBM's software OEM strategy represents a significant and growing revenue opportunity for IBM and its business partners.
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For more details on the benefits of integrating Venafi with TKLM, please visit http://www.venafi.com/IBM/Venafi-OEMs_IBM_TKLM_QandA.aspx.
For more on how Venafi automated the management of certificates issued by PKI Services for z/OS, please see www.venafi.com/News/Press_Releases/2008-01-22/Venafi-Delivers-Encryption-Management-Capabilities-For-IBM-z-OS.aspx
About Venafi
Venafi invented systems management for encryption to help organizations simplify the management of encryption technologies across their diverse operating systems and infrastructure environments-from the desktop to the datacenter. Venafi products provide automated discovery of encryption, application configuration, key and certificate lifecycle management, and monitoring and reporting. This helps organizations improve operational efficiency, data security and compliance management. Venafi customers include some of the world's most prestigious financial services, insurance, high tech, telecommunications, government, airline, aerospace, healthcare and restaurant organizations. For more information, visit www.venafi.com.
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