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EPISODE 294
Broadcast Date:
April 13, 20239 minutes
Podcast Apr 13, 2023Root Causes 294: Root Causes Honored by Webby Awards
The Root Causes podcast has received a Webby Honoree award. Jason and Tim briefly celebrate and discuss operating a niche, homemade podcast.
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Root Causes Nominated “Webby Honoree” at 2023 Webby Awards
A Blog Post from Sectigo
Blog Post Apr 05, 2023January 4, 2019. This was the date of the inaugural episode of Root Causes – the first ever podcast dedicated to the changing and critically important world of PKI and digital certificates. Since its inception, Root Causes has fostered stimulating, timely conversation and commentary around major trends impacting the cybersecurity industry.
This week, on April 4, 2023, Root Causes received its first, major award, as a ‘Webby Honoree’ at the 2023 Webby Awards. To say that this is thrilling is an understatement. Since 2019, Jason and I have singlehandedly recorded and produced nearly 300 episodes of Root Causes, and it goes without saying we are honoured to receive this accolade.
In the first ever episode of Root Causes, Jason and I laid our mission for the podcast. We would “nerd out” together on various deep topics about security, digital identity, encryption, and the like. We decided it might be valuable to capture our discussions for posterity. There are many interesting topics that result from the resurgence of PKI. The concept of establishing a strong sense of public and private trust has never been more important for enterprises than it is now. Additionally, the world of PKI is a big place - there are a LOT of non-obvious concepts that can benefit from discussion. Root Causes is our way of capturing these ideas and exploring ways in which organizations can establish digital trust with PKI and digital certificates.
Since 2019, Root Causes has grown steadily. In August 2020, we celebrated our one hundredth episode. Less than a year later, in April 2021, we celebrated 40,000 listens of our podcast. By September 2021, this number had reached 50,000 and by November 2022, we’d reached 150,000 listens. This month we expect to hit a quarter million listens.
Jason and I view this growing audience as validation that our industry it important to a large number of IT professionals. We feel privileged that our podcast can be a meaningful contributor to discussion of this industry.
For those of you that may be unaware, The Webby Awards are major. Earning the distinction of Webby Honoree, as recognized by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences is a significant achievement—granted to only the top 20% of all work entered in the 27th Annual Webby Awards. Looking at those also in our category of “Technology Podcasts,” Root Causes is keeping some impressive company alongside podcasts produced by major technology media outlets such as TechCrunch and The Verge, along with Mozilla’s own podcast. Of course, we wish those nominated for the Webby People’s Voice the very best of luck.
We also want to thank our listeners. Root Causes is for you, so thank you for listening. Finally, for those of you uninitiated to Root Causes, here are some recommendations to get you started.
Episode 1 – The Intro - Meet your hosts Tim Callan and Jason Soroko and learn why we decided to start the Root Causes podcast.
Episode 235 – The Listener’s Favorite - Our most downloaded episode of the past year explores lattice-based encryption, the algorithmic foundation of new post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standards.
Episode 284 – The Trending Topic - Learn about Google's plan to reduce maximum TLS validity to 90 days.Thanks for joining us on Root Causes. Most weeks we post two episodes, so we hope you join us again soon.
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Sectigo CEO Bill Holtz Named a Top 25 Cybersecurity Executive
A Press Release from Sectigo
Press Release Jul 28, 2021Sectigo CEO and President Bill Holtz has been named as one of the Top 25 Cybersecurity Executives of 2021 by The Software Report.
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Sectigo Named SC Awards Finalist in Best Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery Solution Category
A Blog Post from Sectigo
Blog Post Apr 01, 2021Big news today for Sectigo! Our Sectigo Web Security Platform has been named a 2021 SC Awards finalist in the category of Best Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Solution! This is the second year in a row that Sectigo has received recognition from the SC Awards, after the Sectigo IoT Identity Manager won SC Awards Europe’s Best IoT/IIoT Security Solution last year.
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Sectigo Secure Partner Program Honored With Five-Star Rating in the 2021 CRN Partner Program Guide
A Press Release from Sectigo
Press Release Mar 29, 2021Sectigo is being acknowledged by CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, in its 2021 Partner Program Guide. The annual guide provides a conclusive list of the most distinguished partner programs from leading technology companies that provide products and services through the IT Channel. The Five-Star rating is awarded to an exclusive group of companies that offer solution providers the best of the best, going above and beyond in their partner programs.
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Finalists: Best Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Solution
A News Article from Sectigo
News Article Mar 29, 2021As ransomware attacks soar, so do the risks across verticals that system access will abruptly disappear. Consider too, infiltration by nation-state attacks or even unexpected weather events. So many threats make business continuity and disaster recovery critical to keep businesses up and running.
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Sectigo’s DNS Solution Is the Top Performer According to DNSPerf
A Blog Post from Sectigo
Blog Post Mar 19, 2021DNSPerf, a third-party website powered by global data analytics platform PerfOps, has rated Sectigo’s Anycast DNS the world’s #1 domain name systems (DNS) solution in terms of both Raw Performance and Overall Quality. Sectigo now ranks ahead of 42 other players in the DNS space.
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Sectigo’s Michael Fowler Recognized as 2021 CRN® Channel Chief
A Blog Post from Sectigo
Blog Post Feb 10, 2021This week, CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, named Michael Fowler, President of Channels and Partnerships at Sectigo, to its 2021 list of Channel Chiefs. The annual CRN® Channel Chiefs list recognizes leading IT channel vendor executives who continually demonstrate outstanding leadership, influence, innovation, and growth. Honorees are selected by CRN’s editorial staff based on their dedication, industry prestige, and exceptional accomplishments as channel advocates.
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2021 Channel Chiefs: Michael Fowler
A News Article from Sectigo
News Article Feb 08, 2021For nearly two decades, Michael has successfully managed Sectigo's largest partner accounts and has played a substantial role in the development and growth of the company's more than 1200 active partner relationships.
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Frost & Sullivan Honors Sectigo With the 2020 Global Competitive Strategy Leadership Award
A Blog Post from Sectigo
Blog Post Feb 01, 2021I am excited to share that Sectigo has received the 2020 Global Competitive Strategy Leadership Award from Frost & Sullivan in recognition of our PKI portfolio. The market research leader based the award on its recent analysis of the global transport layer security (TLS) certificates market and specifically cited Sectigo’s ‘easy-to-use management platform’ and use of automation and IETF standards-based integrations among its reasons for bestowing the award.
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Certificate Manager Wins Authentication Management Solution Award
A Press Release from Sectigo
Press Release Oct 21, 2020Sectigo® today announced that its digital identity platform, Sectigo Certificate Manager, has won the Authentication Management Solution of the Year RemoteTech Breakthrough Award. Previously, Sectigo was also awarded the 2019 IoT Device Security Solution of the Year Cybersecurity Breakthrough Award, making this year’s accolade the company’s second award from the leading market intelligence organization, Tech Breakthrough.