After a Painful Outage, Epic Games Advocate Automated Certificate Renewals

On April 6, 2021, American video game and software developer, Epic Games, experienced a massive outage that resulted in the failure of multiple internal systems, logins, live services, and their game launcher. Root cause analysis exposed the culprit as… Continue reading After a Painful Outage, Epic Games Advocate Automated Certificate Renewals

Google Voice Outage: Expired TLS Certificate Brings Down Yet Another Giant

Between February 15th and February 16th, 2021, Google Voice, Google’s telephone service, experienced a worldwide outage that prevented its users from making and receiving Voice over Internet (VoIP) calls for over four hours. On February 28th, 2021, Goo… Continue reading Google Voice Outage: Expired TLS Certificate Brings Down Yet Another Giant

EARN IT Act and How Encryption is Related to Freedom of Speech

Since the EARN IT Act was introduced in early March 2020, it was met with strong opposition by privacy groups and academia. The Act has been called “a disaster for Internet users’ free speech and security.” Riana Pfefferkorn, Associate Director of Surv… Continue reading EARN IT Act and How Encryption is Related to Freedom of Speech

SSH Certificates and their Real-World Applications

SSH Certificates and their Real-World Applications
The ongoing pandemic has pushed many organizations to direct their employees to work from home, necessitating a switch to a public cloud infrastructure. Naturally, this raises data security concerns, a… Continue reading SSH Certificates and their Real-World Applications

Deep Dive Into Google Cloud Key Management Services

Deep Dive Into Google Cloud Key Management Services
In this article, we will take a closer look at Google’s Cloud Key Management Services. When users store data into Google Cloud, the data is automatically encrypted at rest. We use Google’s Cloud Key M… Continue reading Deep Dive Into Google Cloud Key Management Services

Top 10 Cyber Security Trends to Watch out for in 2021

Top 10 Cyber Security Trends to Watch out for in 2021
If we look back at 2020, the main theme is disruption. Although business leaders are used to some level of constant change, COVID-19 impacted the world in ways no one could have predicted. As a resu… Continue reading Top 10 Cyber Security Trends to Watch out for in 2021

Why Manual Certificate Management Doesn’t Scale

Why Manual Certificate Management Doesn’t Scale
Enterprises that offer any of their services online (either to customers, or internally), have a significant stake in ensuring constant uptime for all the applications they control. Customer-facing applic… Continue reading Why Manual Certificate Management Doesn’t Scale

Why Manual Certificate Management Doesn’t Scale

Why Manual Certificate Management Doesn’t Scale
Enterprises that offer any of their services online (either to customers, or internally), have a significant stake in ensuring constant uptime for all the applications they control. Customer-facing applic… Continue reading Why Manual Certificate Management Doesn’t Scale

Creating and Deploying PKI Certificates in Bulk

Creating and Deploying PKI Certificates in Bulk
Digital certificates are the gatekeepers for modern e-commerce and all secure communications. But what are they? Where do they come from? How do you manage the process of issuing, distributing, and mainta… Continue reading Creating and Deploying PKI Certificates in Bulk

Reign in Your Rogue Admins: How to Manage SSL Certificates | Keyfactor

As organizations embrace digital transformation and cutting edge technologies, the scale and distribution of SSL/TLS certificates has grown rapidly, creating new challenges.
Sami Van Vliet, Principal Product Manager at Keyfactor, and Mrugesh Chand… Continue reading Reign in Your Rogue Admins: How to Manage SSL Certificates | Keyfactor