AppViewX CERT+ vs. Venafi Control Plane for Machine Identities

AppViewX is well suited for any IT department, cybersecurity department, or networking department of any and all companies.

Venafi allows an engineer to automate the full provisioning process not only installing the certificate to multiple applications but also configuring specific requirements for that application.

Incentivized

• Discover digital certificates.
• Monitor digital certificates.
• Renew digital certificates.
• Provision digital certificates
• End to end certificate management solution.

• Digital Certificate Inventory Management and Monitoring
• Digital Certificate Lifecycle Processes to include ownership and roles and responsibilities
• Easy automation integration into many common products
• Certificate Trust Store Management

Incentivized

• None that I can think of!

• The Venafi platform is constantly evolving through its upgrades which occur every quarter to meet client's specific needs. This is an outstanding model however the documentation that follows the upgrades could be more thorough.

Incentivized

AppViewX CERT+ is the best as their user experience top notch. They have built it on an open sourced platform, which gives a lot of flexibility. Their integration with other providers and CAs are good compared to the competition.

Each public certificate provider has their own flavor of certificate automation, but they are not that flexible and only work with their own products. Certified Security Solutions CMS is a lightweight tool that directly competes with Venafi, but is not nearly as robust or feature risk. This is a straight forward management solution that is best fitted for the smaller companies.

Incentivized

• Huge positive impact on our operations.
• No more certificate related outages.

• An outage is a very devastating event to any large corporation and can cost millions. Venafi's ability to prevent these outages has proven to be a great return on investment for our environment and has helped protect the bottom line.
• Venafi automates certificate installation with an included feature to schedule the install in advance. This is a great benefit of the tool because it eliminates human error and prevents any forgotten or overlooked certificates to be renewed. After installation Venafi will also validate the certificate to confirm that it has been installed properly. This shows just how thorough this tool really is.
• Security compliance is of the utmost importance in a large organization for auditing purposes and certificate security policies but at times can prove to be difficult to enforce. Venafi has proven to play a pivotal role in enforcing these policies in our environment.

Incentivized