Venafi Firefly is getting support for SPIFFE (Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone). This way, the company is trying to adapt the tool for workload identities to businesses’ needs.
According to Venafi, modern applications need automation to scale and secure heterogeneous workloads. This evolution creates new challenges, according to Kevin Bocek, CIO of Venafi. “There is an urgent need for assurance that workload identities are managed and consistent across many teams and applications in a modern enterprise. Security teams want to know how and why workloads are authenticated without getting in the way of new mission-critical apps.”
Support for an industry-standard
Venafi embraces the open source framework, SPIFFE, to address this need. The framework is an industry-standard. It allows Venafi FireFly to verify workloads from different, dynamic, multi-cloud environments. The solution works based on identities that have only a short lifetime and are managed by the Venafi Control Plane. In this tool, the user defines machine identity policies.
“It automatically gives each workload its own identity and creates an enterprise-wide confidential system to secure and authenticate workloads in any infrastructure. Now that SPIFFE support has been added, platform teams can use Venafi Firefly to use SPIFFE-compliant identities and seamlessly authenticate workloads for enhanced identity management,” adds the CPO, Shivajee Samdarshi.
Venafi Firefly was introduced last year. The tool assigns machine identities to workloads in cloud-based environments.
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