The recent spate of data breaches – such as the RSA and Comodo hacks – have highlighted the need for companies to implement enterprise key and certificate management (EKCM) best practices in order to reduce their vulnerability to attack, according to Jeff Hudson, chief executive officer at EKCM provider Venafi.
Infosecurity.Com - Hudson identified a number of security challenges that companies need to address in an era of proliferating data breaches – the increasing skill of hackers and the lack of management of encryption keys and digital certificates.“The hackers are becoming incredibly sophisticated. They are going after things that people in the past had not spent anytime thinking about. So that’s the reality”, Hudson told Infosecurity.
The second challenge is that companies are not aware of all the encryption keys and certificates that have to manage on their networks. “Getting better at managing this stuff means they have the right people, processes, and practices in place.”
To enable companies to manage these assets, Venafi has launched an EKCM best practices website. Hudson said that Venafi’s customers have been asking, “How do you manage this stuff and how do you make sure that you are not going to have some of these breaches, like RSA or Comodo?” More
