Venafi has announced Firefly, a tool designed to assign machine identities in cloud-based environments, allowing organizations to ensure that their entire IT infrastructure meets security requirements.
The company presents Firefly as an easy-to-deploy container in an existing cloud-native environment. Users can define machine identity policies through Venafi Control Plane, which offers a number of important features.
Benefits
The Control Plane allows users to make machine identities visible on a local data center, cloud, and edge. This enables organizations to maintain a consistent security policy across all components, as the identity issuer can name every trusted entity in the same way. Additionally, Firefly requires very little to run, and offers several deployment options, from cloud-native to DevOps.
Venafi states that the tool is an answer to the demand for increased security in the cloud. CPO Shivajee Samdarshi emphasizes the efficiency benefits that development teams can gain. Diebold Nixdorf, a cash register manufacturer, is pleased with the new tool. “At our company, it is a priority to restructure legacy applications to be cloud native. We need to give developers and platform teams a lightweight machine identity issuer that works on any cloud platform, is super fast, and easy to deploy.”
