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The Root Causes podcast explores the important issues behind today’s world of PKI, online trust, and digital certificates. In this episode our hosts Jason Soroko (CTO of IoT, Sectigo) and Tim Callan (Senior Fellow, Sectigo) discuss an emerging initiative to use PKI to provide authenticated identity for phone callers.
Everything in our cities is connected; traffic controls, vehicles, and buildings—to the point that cities are smart enough to adapt to human needs and are engineered to function at the highest possible levels of power efficiency and effectiveness. But with this connectivity come dangerous vulnerabilities.
No one loves an extraordinary transformation more than Vince Chiu, Sectigo’s Marketing Operations Manager. Vince, a cybersecurity industry expert with considerable experience in the SSL space, joined Sectigo in 2018, timed with the company’s brand transition. From setting and meeting aggressive KPIs to helping with brand strategy, Vince and his team have brought new energy to the marketing department, finding exciting ways to leverage data to build better solutions.
Sectigo at present offers the ability to cross-sign certificates with the AddTrust legacy root to increase support among very old systems and devices. This root is due to expire at the end of May, 2020. Any applications or installations that depend on this cross-signed root must be updated by May, 2020 or run the risk of outage or displayed error message.
For the vast majority of use cases Sectigo’s standard root supplies the full required client support. For unusual cases, Sectigo offers a new cross signing option with its AAA root.
The Root Causes podcast explores the important issues behind today’s world of PKI, online trust, and digital certificates. In this episode our hosts Jason Soroko (CTO of IoT, Sectigo) and Tim Callan (Senior Fellow, Sectigo) give an overview of how certificates fit into your secure, compliant, future-proof DevOps environment.
Sectigo and I are excited to be attending NamesCon Global and sharing some industry-changing product news. We are changing the way our partners and the world should be thinking about SSL - creating differentiation that we can’t wait to share. We'll begin sneak peek conversations in Austin, and invite our partners and prospects to be the first to know the inside scoop.
This week Microsoft disclosed the existence of a critical vulnerability in how Windows operating systems validate ECC-based x.509 certificates and released patches for affected versions that are supported. We highly recommend immediate application of the appropriate patch to all Windows servers and client systems to prevent exploits based on this newly discovered flaw. Read here to learn more.
Some Sectigo Code Signing certificate subscribers have opined recently that our Code Signing authentication now includes additional steps and requirements it did not have in previous years. This observation is accurate. Sectigo of recent has increased its process and requirements for obtaining Code Signing certificates.
