A recent survey from Venafi found that 93% of surveyed CIOs say they have over 10,000 certificates, and 74% said they’d recently experienced a certificate-related outage
Although it sounds like something out of a futuristic sci-fi movie, machine identities are real and they’re here. In fact, if you’re like most organizations that have SSL/TLS certificates on their website, that means your organization also has a machine identity (or maybe many of them).
According to a study from our friends at Venafi, a cybersecurity company that specializes in machine identity protection, Chief Information Officers globally are increasingly concerned about the security risks that relate to those machine identities. But what exactly is a machine identity? How does it relate to SSL/TLS certificates? And what can you do to protect your organization against these risks?
We’ll answer these questions and also share the top takeaways from their survey.
Let’s hash it out.
Key Findings from Venafi’s Global CIO Study
Venafi sponsored a market research study by Coleman Parkes to gain a better understanding of how CIOs regard the risks that are associated with machine identities. In a nutshell, machine identities are what identify your business in the digital world. Businesses, organizations, and governments alike use these machine identities to authenticate and communicate securely across a variety of platforms. The most common types of machine identities in use are SSL/TLS certificates and their correspondin ..
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