Collaborate Disseminate
They compromised a Florida water treatment plant, held hospital IT systems hostage, infiltrated government agencies in the SolarWinds attack, and cut off one of the largest U.S. fuel pipelines. There’s no doubt that malicious entities, from state-… Continue reading Executive Order Mandates Zero-Trust Solutions and Encryption Standards
The National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) says that public-key encryption, digital signatures, and secure key exchange “are the heart and blood” of digital identity and trust. These support numerous online applications and services c… Continue reading Why Crypto-agility is the Key for Quantum-safe Cryptography
SSL certificates are used for encryption and validation. Encryption ensures that traffic cannot be tampered with by eavesdroppers and enhances the confidentiality and integrity of the information in any transaction. Validation ensures that the two… Continue reading What are extended validation certificates? And are they dead?
Traditionally, IT environments were high-trust: Organizations had a low number of certificates and keys, all of which were contained, making them easy to manage in a static, reactive way.
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When we discuss digital certificates, most people think about SSL/TLS certificates. While these are the most “popular,” they are not the only ones. There are actually two more types of certificates: code-signing and user/client certificates, which… Continue reading How Many Types of Digital Certificates Are There?
X.509 certificate management involves the processes and procedures for buying, deploying, renewing, and revoking certificates in a network of connected applications, servers, systems, or other network parts. Practically all browser clients and ser… Continue reading Manual vs. Automated Certificate Management | Keyfactor
Public key cryptography, also called asymmetric encryption, is based on computations that are almost impossible to break using today’s fastest computers. But, there is still one problem when using encryption with private and public keys…. Continue reading Digital Signature vs. Digital Certificate | Keyfactor
Most people today are familiar with the basic idea of cryptography — encrypting a message to secure it so that it’s not readable to anyone and everyone.
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This article is for anyone who seeks a better understanding of SSL certificates, and how they provide security for both Public Internet and Enterprise Intranet connections.
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For all the gaps that exist between DevOps and security teams as enterprises try to balance speed of development and security simultaneously, there’s one thing that can bring these two teams together: the fight to stop disruptive a… Continue reading How InfoSec & DevOps Can Stop Certificate Outages | Keyfactor