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Blog Post Mar 28, 2019
Why Automation Matters to Enterprises Using S/MIME Email Certificates
It is tempting for the enterprise to use S/MIME without automated certificate management in hopes of saving some money by requiring employees to share the burden of managing certificates - but encryption and digital signatures are the best way to ensure the integrity and privacy of email communication. Using S/MIME for encryption allows both sender and recipient to utilize their existing S/MIME capable email applications with their familiar capabilities.
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Machine ID a Problem: Two-Thirds of Businesses Suffer Certificate...
News Article from Sectigo
News Article Mar 27, 2019Tim Callan, senior fellow at Sectigo, told SC Media UK that automation of certificate lifecycle management – including renewal – is key. "A good automated platform can track certificates, notify IT professionals when they’re due to expire, and even automatically replace them with new certificates," he said.
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Product Video Mar 25, 2019Sectigo S/MIME Solution
Sectigo S/MIME enables both public and private S/MIME certificates to be issued from a single, cloud-based platform.
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Blog Post Mar 13, 2019
63-Bit Password Emphasizes Role of Automation in Enterprise PKI
Industry PKI experts recently have discovered a flaw in certificate generation practices that employ the commonly used EJBCA CA tool, which can result in serial numbers with 63 bits of entropy as opposed to the 64 bits required by public certificate guidelines. Episodes like this one put a spotlight on the value of automation in certificate practices. Automated capabilities enable the consistently correct maintenance, revocation, and replacement of a large number of certificates with little human interaction required.
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Blog Post Jan 16, 2019
Government Website Certificates Expire, Leaving Americans at Risk
It’s been almost a month since the US Government shut down on December 22, 2018, and while some effects of this record-breaking shutdown are obvious, others are flying under the radar — including the increased vulnerability to cybercrime faced by millions of Americans.
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Certificate Management: Avoiding a World of Pain
News Article from Sectigo
News Article Jan 07, 2019Software certificate issues have been blamed for a host of recent enterprise ills, including a widespread outage of Ericsson’s infrastructure that left O2 customers with no network for nearly 24 hours (O2 is rumoured to be seeking £100 million in damages). Sectigo’s Tim Callan on certificate discovery, S/MIME and managing the explosion of certificates.
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News Article Dec 12, 2018
When Out-of-Date Code Causes Chaos
Last week, mobile operator O2 blamed a similar issue for causing a network blackout which affected the UK. But what is a digital certificate and why do they expire? And will similar administrative errors continue to dog the industry and cause widespread havoc?
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Blog Post Dec 12, 2018
Equifax Data Breach Due to Unknown Certificate Expiration
Congress’s recent report on the 2017 Equifax data breach reveals that an expired certificate disabled a monitoring system, allowing the attack to harvest data unchecked for more than two months.
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O2 Outage Highlights Importance of Software Certificate Audits
News Article from Sectigo
News Article Dec 07, 2018O2’s 4G network is now back up and running after a day-long outage on Thursday 6 December caused by an expired software certificate – which could have been avoided very easily.
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Blog Post Dec 07, 2018
Global Mobile Outage Shows the Danger in Poor Certificate Management
Yesterday, the world experienced major outages in its mobile networks, including loss of service for 32 million Britons on O2 and other carriers, as well as millions more in Japan and other parts of the globe. The rumor is that many private IoT networks were affected by this same outage, most of which we’ll probably never hear about.
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Sectigo IoT Manager Brief
Datasheet from Sectigo
Datasheet Oct 30, 2018Sectigo IoT Manager offers full automation capabilities to deploy, report on, and manage the lifecycle of certificates in any volume.
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Sectigo Certificate Manager Brief
Datasheet from Sectigo
Datasheet Oct 30, 2018Sectigo Certificate Manager gives businesses complete visibility and lifecycle control over any certificate in their environment, helping them reduce risk.
