Application Identity Management
AppViewX enables automated enterprise-wide certificate-based identity provisioning, lifecycle management and crypto policy creation and enforcement. When every connected “thing” (users, machines, and applications) has a trusted identity, enterprises can ensure user and machine authentication, encrypted data communication, and secure Internet transactions – the foundation for Zero Trust Security.
Application Access and Availability
As the lifeblood of every organization, applications must be available at all times with easy and secure access for all internal and external users. With digital transformation pushing more applications to the cloud, cross-functional IT teams (NetOps, SecOps and DevOps) must work together to accelerate application delivery across more complex hybrid multi-cloud environments. New revenue streams and growth depend upon employees and customers having access to highly available applications.
Application Governance and Compliance
Validating application for compliance to internal policies and industry and regulatory mandates is now essential to mitigating risk of downtime and cybersecurity attacks. Automation, visibility and control of critical identity and access management (IAM) functions help teams maintain a state of continuous compliance and produce the evidence required by auditors to prove compliance.
Automate enterprise-wide certificate and key discovery, provisioning, renewals and revocation across on-prem, hybrid and cloud environments
Inefficient Certificate Management Affects Both Your Security Posture and Your Bottom Line
Attacks and Breaches
Use of weak and outdated crypto standards in certificates and keys create security vulnerabilities, increasing the risk of cyberattacks and breaches.
Application Outages
Expired certificates lead to unforeseen network downtime, impacting operations and causing financial losses.
Low Efficiency and High Costs
Repetitive manual tasks impact productivity. Time-consuming processes cause unnecessary delays in certificate renewal and provisioning, slowing down operations and increasing costs.
Poor Auditing and Compliance
Lack of awareness and a well-defined PKI policy leads to misconfigurations and weak security standards, in turn, causing auditing and compliance issues.
Migrate to a cost effective and fully managed PKI-as-a-Service to issue internal trusted certificates at scale and speed
PKI Team Churn
Churn in PKI management teams leaves enterprises vulnerable with no one to manage the legacy in-house CA infrastructure. Offloading legacy operations to resource-constrained IT teams is a heavy burden.
Security Risks and Outages
In-house PKI lacks integrated certificate lifecycle management (CLM) and PKI policy enforcement. This can lead to mismanaged certificates, misconfigurations and the use of weak crypto standards – resulting in unexpected outages, cyberattacks and data breaches.
Failed Audits and Non Compliance
Legacy on-prem PKI that was deployed in the past may no longer be up to security standards. Forgoing best practices, like not using compliant HSMs to protect keys can lead to failed audits, compliance issues and critical security vulnerabilities.
Staff Resource Burdens
Operating an in-house infrastructure, especially long term, is a resource-intensive burden. Full time dedicated PKI staffing must perform ongoing operations, hardware provisioning, and refreshes and keep current with PKI industry and compliance standards.
Integrate with CI/CD tools to simplify certificate management in Kubernetes and seamlessly add security into the software build process
It’s a battle between agility and security when DevOps and SecOps teams aren’t aligned
Low Productivity
Manual PKI processes like monitoring requests, expirations, and binding of thousands of short-lived certificates is a significant burden to DevOps teams that are already strapped for resources and under pressure
Security Risks and Non Compliance
For the sake of speed, developers often use self-signed certificates, unapproved CAs or weak crypto standards—violating corporate policies. Manual certificate provisioning is error-prone and can leave an entire system vulnerable to a cyberattack.
Siloed Teams
Security teams are challenged to keep up with the fast-paced demands of DevOps, while trying to enforce corporate-wide compliant PKI.
DevOps teams struggle to balance development timelines with security requirements.
Disruptive Outages
Rogue and mismanaged certificates lead to unexpected certificate expirations causing outages and security weaknesses, which can impact operations and lead to significant financial losses.
Discover and manage all SSH keys to identify and mitigate security risks
associated with rogue keys and SSH sprawl
Unmanaged SSH Certificates and Keys Are a Serious Enterprise Security Liability
Application Outages and Downtime
Performing necessary SSH key rotations without visibility into all SSH keys and access, can cause major applications to break.
Attacks and Breaches
SSH keys that are left untracked or unmanaged can open a back door for attackers to gain long-term unauthorized access to the network, mission critical systems and sensitive data.
Poor Auditing and Compliance
Lack of awareness and policies around SSH keys and access leads to vulnerabilities and security weaknesses, in turn, causing auditing and compliance issues.
Resource Inefficiencies
Manual SSH key lifecycle management hinders productivity. Time-consuming processes like manual key rotations and bulk access provisioning are slow and error-prone.
Provision and manage IoT identities to ensure secure device authentication
and encrypted communication
Reliable PKI-based Device Authentication
Provision identities to IoT devices right off the assembly line or in the field to monitor and tamper-proof them throughout their lifecycle.
Secure Device Communication
Implement end-to-end data encryption with TLS protocol and renew symmetric and asymmetric keys to minimize the risk of data exposure and theft.
Software and Application Level Security
Follow code signing and firmware signing practices to prevent hackers from tampering with the device software or firmware.
Conditional Access and Compliance
Enforce a uniform PKI policy and conditional access to ensure all devices are running the latest, most secure software versions for data security and industry-standard compliance.
Build code signing into the DevOps process to validate and verify authenticity of code to ensure software supply chain security
Security Vulnerabilities
Poor code signing practices can create software supply chain vulnerabilities and allow tampered code to be released – opening security vulnerabilities that can put users and customers at risk and damage to the company’s reputation.
Unauthorized Code Signing Certificates
Cybercriminals can get hold of unauthorized code signing certificates if the private keys certificates are not sufficiently protected. Attackers can pass off malware or malicious software as legitimate code by stealing a private code signing key.
Non-Compliance
Compliance issues arise due to manual code signing processes, and the presence of revoked or rogue certificates, leading to hefty penalties. Certificates usually go rogue, when they expire or are compromised due to weak crypto standards.
Low Productivity and Efficiency
Non-standard manual code signing leads to poor code signing and security practices, slows DevOps processes and code releases, creates errors, re-work and inefficiencies.
Streamline the management and configuration of load balancers with automated and orchestrated workflows to deliver always on applications.
Misconfigured Misery
Poorly managed load balancers equals poor application performance and user experience - a result of misconfigurations, overloaded servers, and insufficient monitoring, and management.
Unforeseen Downtime
Improperly configured load balancers can cause unexpected application downtimes and loss of revenue caused by issues such as lack of redundancy or failover mechanisms, misconfigured health checks, and insufficient monitoring and management.
Security and Data Breach
Inefficient load balancer management can lead to vulnerabilities and data breaches caused by issues such as unpatched software, misconfigured access controls, and insufficient encryption.
Unexpected Costs
Poor management of load balancers leads to high costs, falling behind the competition, and struggling to meet business demands due to lack of automation, poor monitoring, and outdated technology.
Dynamically manage application traffic across enterprise data centers and cloud environments to compensate for failure, demand and load
Network Congestion and Lost Business
Excessive traffic volume caused by a lack of capacity, poor configuration, and outdated systems results in network congestion and slow response times, leading to poor user experience and potential loss of business.
Wasted Resources and Increased Costs
Poor traffic distribution results in the overuse of resources and increased costs as extra resources are needed to handle the increased traffic and make up for inefficiencies.
Extended Downtime and Lost Productivity
Inability to identify and troubleshoot problems effectively leads to prolonged application downtime and decreased productivity.
Lack of Visibility and Agility
Insufficient visibility and application traffic management across hybrid multi-cloud environments lead to difficulty in scaling and a lack of agility in responding to changing business changes, resulting in lost opportunities.
Simplify and optimize multi-cloud infrastructure optimization to ensure
applications are available and accessible to user anywhere
Cloud Complexity
Complex multi-cloud infrastructure without centralized management and automation can lead to decreased coordination among teams and increased operational inefficiencies.
Spiraling Costs
Lack of automation and unified traffic management across multi-clouds can result in wasted resources and higher operational costs, including manual process and issue resolution costs.
Application Unavailability
Inadequate visibility and monitoring can cause issues to go unaddressed, leading to unnecessary downtime, productivity issues, and decreased customer satisfaction.
Out of Compliance
Inconsistent policies and a lack of centralized management can hinder visibility, resulting in compliance issues and increased security risks, which in turn hinders the agility from deploying and scaling applications to meet market needs.
Automate web application firewall (WAF) configurations to meet application security policies and continuously protect applications in real time
Security Vulnerabilities
Increased risk of security breaches and attacks due to lack of central management and visibility in WAF configuration
Application Downtime
Higher likelihood of applications becoming unavailable due to lack of automation in managing WAF configuration.
Compliance Challenges
Compliance issues due to inconsistent rules, lack of role-based access control, and deficient security controls.
Impact on Business Agility
Reduced ability to adapt to changing security requirements and risk profiles, resulting in decreased business agility.
Create and manage firewall policies to keep the enterprise network infrastructure protected and ensure the proper access to application services
Increased Risk of Cyber Attacks
Firewall configuration issues can open the door to cyber threats such as malware, phishing, and ransomware. This can lead to the loss of sensitive data, financial losses, and disruption of business operations.
Reduced Network Performance
Excessive complexity in firewall policies can impede network performance by blocking legitimate traffic and creating bottlenecks. This can lead to decreased productivity, difficulty accessing resources, and lost revenue.
Compliance Consequences
Inefficient firewall management can result in non-compliance with industry regulations or standards, such as PCI DSS or HIPAA. This can lead to costly fines and penalties and damage to the company's reputation.
Losing Firewall Agility
If firewall rules are not well documented or are difficult to modify, it can be challenging to make changes to the network, such as adding new devices or applications. This can hinder the ability to adapt to changing business needs and limit growth and innovation.
Central DDI control eliminates operational complexity, enhances DNS security posture and ensures application availability
Resource Management Roadblocks
The lack of a centralized system for DDI management can result in difficulties in effectively allocating and utilizing network resources and adapting to changing business needs, hindering the company's growth and productivity.
Troubleshooting and Recover
Inefficient DDI management can lead to complex troubleshooting, longer resolution times and difficulties in recovering from disasters or outages, resulting in network downtime and lost productivity, ultimately impacting the company's bottom line.
Growth and Scalability Stagnation
Without centralized DDI control, the company's growth potential and its ability to keep up with industry demands can be hindered, resulting in the inability to scale the network and loss of customer trust, and ultimately negative impact on the company's reputation.
Reputation and Revenue at Risk
The business implications of inefficient DDI management can lead to lost customer trust and lost business and revenue due to network issues and outages which can lead to revenue loss and damage the company's reputation.
Automate the creation and enforcement of standard enterprise wide crypto policies to eliminate errors and security weakness
Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities
Undetected rogue certificates and weak keys leave organizations vulnerable to ransomware, phishing, and man-in-the-middle attacks.
Unsecure Access
Expired certificates cause application outages and create security weaknesses that cyber attackers can exploit – leading to malicious actions, business disruption and data theft.
Crypto Policy Violations
When siloed security, DevOps and application teams do not follow standard certificate provisioning processes, enterprise security can be compromised.
Failed Compliance Audits
Compliance violations and failed audits lead to increasing costs, fines and penalties, potential reputational damage, and lost revenue.
Establish and enforce golden configuration policies for load balancers to ensure application availability, access, and security will not be interrupted.
Application Downtime
Employee productivity, customer experience, lost revenue and company reputation are all negatively impacted when applications are not available or accessible.
Cybersecurity Weakness
Misconfigurations can lead to critical and exploitable vulnerabilities leaving your critical applications vulnerable to damaging internal and external cyberattacks.
Cost and Resources
When configuration drift occurs, it not only impacts application availability and performance, but also becomes a burden on staff to find and fix the errors.
Compliance Violations
Compliance for internal policies and industry and regulatory mandates can be compromised by misconfigurations and errors putting your organization at risk.
Enforce policies to maintain continuous compliance and generate reports for auditors to verify internal, industry and regulatory compliance
Revenue Loss and Reputation Damage
Depending upon the industry or regulatory mandate, compliance violations may need to be publicly disclosed which could impact revenue and reputation of the business
Compliance Penalties and Fines
Industry and regulatory mandates such as GDPR, Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and others carry significant penalties and fines for compliance violations.
Security Weaknesses
Many compliance requirements emphasize security controls to protect the best interest of the company and its customers. Weak controls and non-compliance introduce risk.
Increased Audit Demands
Failed audits increase the need for additional internal and external audits which puts even more stress on staff resources and increases the cost of compliance auditing.
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