I’m here with a message from one of your fellow security professionals, who’s tired of feeling overwhelmed by machine identity complexity, not to mention ineffective manual strategies.
It’s time for a change—no, it’s time for a revolution.
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Attention security community:
It's time for us, as the machine identity minutemen of our organizations, to address the enormous elephant in the room: orchestration complexity is holding us all back. It’s time to declare our independence from outdated machine identity management tools and manual processes—to put a foot down—once and for all.
We assert these fundamental truths:
- All machine identities have the right, no, the necessity, to be discovered, automated and protected.
- Machine identity platforms exist to accomplish this, but they aren’t all made the same. A single, centralized control plane is needed to take charge of the surge of certificates in modern-day business.
- When traditional approaches to management threaten the safety and agility of an enterprise, we must dismantle those overly complex approaches and simplify them in the name of identity-first security.
For too long, we’ve worked with legacy systems that fail to keep up with modern workloads and business requirements. And countless outages, misconfigurations and vulnerabilities highlight these inadequacies. As a result, organizations must reject these convoluted, outdated practices in favor of stronger, simpler protection for machine identities.
After all, we’re familiar with the challenges of these legacy approaches:
- Scrambling to find and replace expiring certificates at the last minute
- Joining late-night war room calls to troubleshoot outages caused by untracked certificates
- Drowning in a sea of spreadsheets, support tickets, and emails to keep up with requests
- Lacking visibility into certificates scattered across multiple CAs and disjointed tools
- Cleaning up after preventable breaches and outages caused by mismanaged keys and certificates
- Struggling to enforce consistent policies and best practices across the organization
- Spending countless hours on manual certificate management tasks instead of strategic security initiatives
- Delaying app deployments because of cumbersome, error-prone processes
- Doing our companies a disservice by not preparing for technological upheavals like 90-day TLS certificates and post-quantum computing
The industry has reached an inflection point. To keep up with digital transformation, and stay secure, we all must break free from the limitations of legacy tools and manual certificate management. Our organizations deserve better.
Today, I'm drawing a line in the sand. I'm declaring independence from the complexity that's been holding us back. I'm committing to a better way forward—automated, centralized machine identity security built for the modern enterprise.
It's time to take control, simplify operations and focus on what matters most. Because our security posture and business agility depend on getting machine identity security right.
Who’s with me?
- Tommy J., InfoSec Leader, Local Government
(No relation to the Thomas Jefferson, in case you’re wondering.)
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Ready to join the revolution?
I invite you to attend Machine Identity Security Summit 2024, in Boston, October 1-3.
You’ll learn how modern machine identity security prepares you for a bright new world filled with AI, quantum and cloud-native computing—and discover the role you play in shaping the next era of cybersecurity.
A rich, vibrant age only made possible by revolutionizing the modern enterprise.
That’s right. This is where we’ll forge the identity-first future. Together.