Venafi Adds Six Developers to Machine Identity Protection Development Fund

SALT LAKE CITY – June 27, 2019 – Venafi®, the inventor and leading provider of machine identity protection, today announced direct sponsorship of six new developers in the Machine Identity Protection Development Fund, Venafi’s $12.5 million initiative to protect all machine identities. The funded developers will create integrations that accelerate the delivery of comprehensive protection for machine identities across complex enterprise networks. The Development Fund is a global initiative and will increase the visibility, intelligence and automation required for machine identity protection.

“Cyberattackers have moved beyond stealing human identities, like usernames and passwords, and are now targeting the identities of machines,” said Kevin Bocek, vice president of security strategy and threat intelligence for Venafi. “Venafi invented the technology that protects machine identities, and we’re recruiting developers worldwide to deliver machine identity protection across the entire enterprise. With the Development Fund, Venafi is accelerating the protection of all machine identities.”

The new developers joining the Machine Identity Protection Development Fund include:

The Machine Identity Protection Development Fund encourages recipients to build integrations that deliver greater visibility, intelligence and automation across any technology that creates or consumes machine identities, including:

To find out more about the Venafi Machine Identity Protection Development Fund and how you can become a funded developer, please visit: https://www.venafi.com/machine-identity-protection-fund.

Venafi is the cybersecurity market leader in machine identity protection, securing machine-to-machine connections and communications. Venafi protects machine identity types by orchestrating cryptographic keys and digital certificates for SSL/TLS, IoT, mobile and SSH. Venafi provides global visibility of machine identities and the risks associated with them for the extended enterprise – on premises, mobile, virtual, cloud and IoT – at machine speed and scale. Venafi puts this intelligence into action with automated remediation that reduces the security and availability risks connected with weak or compromised machine identities while safeguarding the flow of information to trusted machines and preventing communication with machines that are not trusted.

With over 30 patents, Venafi delivers innovative solutions for the world’s most demanding, security-conscious Global 5000 organizations and government agencies, including the top five U.S. health insurers; the top five U.S. airlines; four of the top five U.S., U.K., Australian and South African banks; and four of the top five U.S. retailers. Venafi is backed by top-tier investors, including TCV, Foundation Capital, Intel Capital, QuestMark Partners, Mercato Partners and NextEquity.

Source: Devops.com

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