Venafi has upgraded its encryption-management solution to let customers more easily secure IBM's WebSphere MQ (WMQ). Organizations can now use the System i-compatible Venafi to automatically deploy, manage, and control encryption throughout their WMQ infrastructure, securing channels and enforcing client authentication. Venafi automates the encryption configuration for WMQ, including setting key sizes, selecting the key store type, creating the key stash, setting certificate labels, and setting key store passwords. It then provides detailed status tracking and reporting. Venafi provides automated lifecycle management for certificates and keys in IBM Global Secure Kit and Sun Java Key Store, among others.