Venafi launches Firefly

AMSTERDAM – Machine identity management company Venafi has just announced the launch of their most recent product, Firefly, a lightweight machine identity issuer that supports highly distributed, cloud native environments.

Part of the Venafi Control Plane for Machine Identities, Firefly allows security teams to meet developer-driven machine identity management requirements for cloud native workloads more easily and securely. It does so by issuing machine identities, like TLS and SPIFFE, locally at high speeds across any environment. “By delivering added speed, reliability and security for machine identities in modern architectures, it helps organizations ensure enterprise trust for issued certificates and adhere to corporate security policies, while accelerating application development and digital transformation.” Venafi wrote in their official release.

Firefly is delivered to users in an easy-to-deploy container that can run in any cloud native environment, according to Venafi. Its machine identity policy is configured in the Venafi Control Plane and inherited by Firefly instances, working together to provide a lightweight distributed architecture with key capabilities like observability, consistency, reliability, and freedom of choice.

“With an increasing number of organizations moving to modern, cloud native architectures that are highly distributed, there is a growing need for machine identities in modern applications to be delivered at scale with near-zero latency to address key challenges around authentication,” said Shivajee Samdarshi, chief product officer at Venafi. “Firefly addresses these critical challenges in a fast, easy and secure way. It reduces security risks while also eliminating inefficiencies that often slow development teams down and future-proofing organizations against the challenges of tomorrow.”

More information about Firefly at venafi.com.