Enterprises average one root access orphan key on every enterprise server

SSH machine identities are critical to digital transformation strategies, as they authenticate privileged access between machines and are ubiquitous across enterprise networks. While CIOs say they are concerned about the security risks SSH machine identities pose, survey data indicates they seriously underestimate the scope of these risks. To better understand the scale of this problem, […]

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Thoma Bravo invests in Venafi to deliver machine identity protection to an expanded customer base

Thoma Bravo announced the completion of its strategic growth investment in Venafi. “We are thrilled to partner with Thoma Bravo at a time when companies around the world are realizing that the foundation of security for all digital transformation initiatives is a solid machine identity management program,” said Jeff Hudson, CEO of Venafi. “Thoma Bravo’s […]

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New infosec products of the week: October 9, 2020

Checkmarx provides automated security scans within GitHub repositories Checkmarx announced a new GitHub Action to bring comprehensive, automated static and open source security testing to developers. It integrates the company’s application security testing (AST) solutions – Checkmarx SAST (CxSAST) and Checkmarx SCA (CxSCA) – directly with GitHub code scanning, giving developers more flexibility and power […]

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Reduced lifespan of TLS certificates could cause increase in outages

Beginning September 1st, all publicly trusted TLS certificates must have a lifespan of 398 days or less. According to security experts from Venafi, this latest change is another indication that machine identity lifetimes will continue to shrink. Since many organizations lack the automation capabilities necessary to replace certificates with short lifespans at machine scale and […]

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