Securing Next-Gen Public Key Infrastructure (PKI
With hyperconnected reality becoming incredibly ubiquitous, security has become the topmost priority for enterprises riding the digital wave. Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) stands as the first and most crucial layer of defense against attackers for an internet-facing system.
PKI setups have a long way to go before they are considered genuinely secure and effective. Security teams continue to leverage legacy techniques to manage digital certificates and keys, resulting in outages and security breaches hitting corporations harder. Technology leaders anticipate that the rapid growth of new technologies will require authentication and security mechanisms, making the issue more pressing than ever.
Let us not forget the current COVID-19 pandemic that resulted in a sudden shift in the business environment and how the Russia-Ukraine conflict subsequently caused an increase in cyberattacks. Businesses need to step up their PKI management standards without much delay.
Every use case has a unique certificate requirement:
1. Containers need short-lived certificates that require frequent renewals
2. IoT devices may use the Enrollment over Secure Transport (EST) protocol for certificate auto-enrollment
3. DevOps need certificate enrollment and management to happen from the CI/CD pipeline to match their delivery speed
Amidst these disparities is the pressure to be crypto-agile. Enterprises need to update cryptographic assets, ciphers, and protocols to new standards as and once updated, they need to keep their systems and communications secure. Using older protocol versions and algorithms render networks vulnerable to cyberattacks and data breaches.
If you are exploring options to migrate your traditional PKI to next-generation PKI, do not miss tuning into the virtual roundtable on ?Securing Next-Gen PKI.? Hear from our panel of cybersecurity experts as they talk about key learnings and share best practices for a next-gen PKI solution that should be:
1. scalable
2. crypto-agile
3. compatible with cybersecurity tools
4. flexible enough to adapt to infrastructure changes and evolving business needs
Take Aways:
Hear from our panel of cybersecurity experts as they talk about key learnings and share best practices for a next-gen PKI solution that should be:
1. scalable
2. crypto-agile
3. compatible with cybersecurity tools
4. flexible enough to adapt to infrastructure changes and evolving business needs
