Jeff is a visionary leader with more than 25 years of leadership and management experience in information technology and cybersecurity. As the CEO of Venafi, he led the creation of the machine identity management category, which has become the next big area of cybersecurity investment for organizations worldwide. Venafi is the recognized leader and innovator with over 30 patents covering every category of machine identity. Additionally, Venafi is the open source leader for machine identity management in Kubernetes. Jeff has guided the growth of Venafi for more than a decade from the early beginnings to a multi-hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue company. Jeff speaks regularly to global audiences at technology and business conferences worldwide, and has been recognized as an Entrepreneur of the Year by Earnst & Young and CEO of the Year by Utah Business.
Venafi partners with the largest, most complex organizations in the world, and our solutions secure the vast majority of the digital infrastructure that runs our modern world. These partnerships have given us a deep understanding of the complexity created by digital transformation and the shift to hybrid and cloud native architectures. Today, a typical global organization has hundreds of thousands of machines – which include applications, APIs, containers and microservices, in addition to physical devices -- spread across a wide variety of environments. Each one of these machines requires an identity. At Venafi, we know how costly and slow it is to build identity-based, zero trust architectures in these complicated, rapidly changing environments. The Venafi Control Plane for Machine Identities is unmatched in reducing complexity and increasing the speed of development, while at the same time increasing security for machine identities which are the foundation of trust in our modern world.
Venafi®, the inventor and leading provider of machine identity management, today unveiled the Venafi Control Plane for Machine Identities. The Venafi