Director 6 – which allows enterprises to eliminate unquantified and unmanaged risk, improve security and increase system availability – nominated for prestigious European award

Venafi, the inventor of and market leader in Enterprise Key and Certificate Management (EKCM) solutions, this week announced that it has been nominated as a finalist in the Secure Computing Awards Europe 2011 for its product Venafi Encryption Director 6. Venafi is delighted to be nominated by the IT security industry’s leading publication as a finalist for this prestigious award, in the Best Security Management category. The SC Magazine Awards occurs annually and provides an evening in recognition and celebration of the best products in the secure computing industry.

Gregory Webb, Director of Marketing at Venafi said: “We are particularly pleased to be nominated for Best Security management product following the launch of the Director 6 platform, which provides out-of-the box, automated management capabilities for the widest range of digital certificate and encryption key technologies used by today’s enterprises, including symmetric keys, SSH keys, asymmetric keys and digital certificates.”

Secure Computing’s nomination follows the recognision of Venafi by Gartner as a “Cool Vendor in Data and Infrastructure Protection.” Venafi provides the only platform that allows organisations to automate discovery, monitoring, validation, management and security of the most commonly used encryption assets. Designed specifically for the enterprise, Director 6 provides interoperability across heterogeneous environments, rapid scalability, and orchestration capabilities that improve security and compliance and increase critical system uptime. In addition to the already-available Certificate Manager™ product, the SSH Key Manager™ and Symmetric Key Manager™ products are being added to the Director 6 platform as separate product offerings.