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of every machine protected by a certificate and possibly answer additional questions on critical assets.
Depending on the audit, significant fines could follow.

A win-win

In short, this is a job that has quickly become unmanageable for human security teams. Instead, they
require a single, automated machine identity management solution to work across all cloud and container
environments. It should automatically configure, renew and revoke certificates, delivering cross-cluster
visibility to help teams check the status of machine identities and answer any auditor questions with
confidence. Automated error displays down to the individual certificate-layer would enable them to easily
click through and remediate – further enhancing overall security posture.

With a control plane for managing machine identities, financial services security teams can have the
peace-of-mind that complex cloud environments will remain secure, even as they continue to evolve. And
both they and developer teams will have more time to work on higher value tasks to support the business.
That’s a win-win all round.

About the Author

Sitaram Iyer is Senior Director of Cloud Native Solutions at Venafi. He
believes security should be one of the primary considerations
organizations make as they make their cloud native journey. With a
plethora of cloud native technologies out there, it is critically important
to empower developers and platform teams with services that allow
them to build and deploy applications more securely.

Building a zero-trust model as you adopt strategies to use Kubernetes
and service meshes can be challenging. At Venafi, we understand this
and work with large enterprises who are looking to address these
challenges.

Sitaram can be reached online at LinkedIn and at our company website www.venafi.com.

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