DigiCert<\/a>, an authority in digital certificates. \u201cThey are the core of establishing immutable identity and encrypting sensitive data that’s moving over wires.\u201d<\/p>\nEven up until a few years, digital certificates were not widely prevalent. But today, there are approximately 55,000 certificates on an average, per organization.<\/p>\n
This is a transformational shift, but the proliferation has left many companies struggling to manage them.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s getting to a point where organizations don’t just need to establish trust, but they need to do better at managing trust and that is where the movement in cryptography and certificates is going right now,\u201d said Nelson.<\/p>\n
High volumes, varying periods of validity, and the need for end-of-life replacement make lifecycle management of certificates a jarring process. Any lack of oversight can lead to major security vulnerabilities, non-compliance and disruption of services. Case in point, the Starlink outage.<\/p>\n
Certificate management typically entails an iterative workflow of issuance, installation, renewal, remediation and replacement. With certificates becoming an irreplaceable part of digital communication, a new model of management that is designed to establish greater confidence in identities is required to protect data and transactions, he said.<\/p>\n