Venafi, Inc., maker of automated encryption management solutions (including SSL certificate management and enterprise key management products), was named to the "2010 Cool Vendor" report from Gartner, Inc.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are:

(1) Innovative --  enabling users to do things they couldn't do before;

(2) Impactful -- having business impact already or in the future, not just technology for the sake of technology; and

(3) Intriguing -- having caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in the past six months.

Gartner Research Vice President, Eric Ouellet, explains, "Large and small enterprises routinely use X.509 certificates and symmetric encryption keys to ensure trust relationships among systems, applications and users. Certificates used for server and application identity services fall into the "unmanaged" category, which means that they require complete manual oversight of certificate issuer, system name, expiry date and other details to prevent service interruptions. This can be a complex proposition when scaled up to hundreds of servers and applications owned by many different organizations within and enterprise. Many enterprises have attempted to formalize this process, using spreadsheets and the centralized registration of all new X.509 certificate installations, but high-profile outages directly attributed to poor X.509 certificate management continue to occur."

Venafi Encryption Director helps organizations solve these operational challenges from large deployments of X.509 certificates and symmetric and private keys by automating the process.

To receive a complimentary copy of the Cool Vendor report by email, complete the form at:  www.venafi.com/Web_Forms/Gartner_RequestH.aspx

Gartner's Cool Vendor listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

To learn more about Venafi, contact authorized integrator Milestone Systems, Inc.