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EPISODE 211
Broadcast Date:
March 14, 202214 minutes
Podcast Mar 14, 2022Root Causes 211: Does CLM Make Wildcard and MDC Irrelevant?
We weigh the degree to which Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) renders the benefits of wildcard and multi-domain certificates obsolete.
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EPISODE 210
Broadcast Date:
March 8, 20227 minutes
Podcast Mar 08, 2022Root Causes 210: Living off the Land
Microsoft has deprecated support for the popular sysadmin tool WMIC. Join our hosts as they explain why and the broader lessons we can learn.
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EPISODE 209
Broadcast Date:
March 1, 202221 minutes
Podcast Mar 01, 2022Root Causes 209: One-Day Deployment of CLM
For any Certificate Lifecycle Management platform to succeed, effective deployment is essential. We describe the optimal onboarding process, step by step.
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EPISODE 208
Broadcast Date:
February 24, 202210 minutes
Podcast Feb 24, 2022Root Causes 208: HD Radio Error Bricks Automotive Information Systems
Recently automobile infotainment systems were permanently "bricked" by a HD radio flaw. Our hosts describe what happened and the lessons we can learn.
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EPISODE 207
Broadcast Date:
February 21, 202219 minutes
Podcast Feb 21, 2022Root Causes 207: Former Gartner Analyst Jumps on the Playing Field
Gartner analyst David Mahdi explains the reasons for his optimism about digital trust, including NFTs, Web3, blockchain, PKI, and Zero Trust.
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EPISODE 206
Broadcast Date:
February 14, 202233 minutes
Podcast Feb 14, 2022Root Causes 206: What Is Web3?
Web3 refers to the concept that online content can be attributed to specific known publishers, regardless of web site or online channel.
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EPISODE 205
Broadcast Date:
February 9, 202212 minutes
Podcast Feb 09, 2022Root Causes 205: Anatomy of an Encrypted Peer-to-Peer Mesh Network
Jason Soroko explains how he was able to quickly and easily create an encrypted communications mesh for use by him and his collaboration team.
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EPISODE 204
Broadcast Date:
February 2, 202223 minutes
Podcast Feb 02, 2022Root Causes 204: PKI's Role in Passwordless
We explain PKI's specific role in passwordless authentication, clarifying the difference between password-masking and true passwordless technologies.
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EPISODE 203
Broadcast Date:
January 31, 202211 minutes
Podcast Jan 31, 2022Root Causes 203: What Is a Credential Vault?
Credential vaults are necessary for secure and functional secrets management for automated systems like DevOps or Robotic Process Automation (RPA).
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EPISODE 202
Broadcast Date:
January 27, 202216 minutes
Podcast Jan 27, 2022Root Causes 202 : What Is Certificate Transparency?
Certificate Transparency (CT) is essential to monitoring the public SSL certificates that are issued. We explain CT logs and the uses we can put them to.
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EPISODE 201
Broadcast Date:
January 24, 202216 minutes
Podcast Jan 24, 2022Root Causes 201: What Are the Baseline Requirements?
The CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements (BR) are hugely influential in the world of public-trust certificates. We explain them and why they matter.
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EPISODE 200
Broadcast Date:
January 19, 20227 minutes
Podcast Jan 19, 2022Root Causes 200: Why Not to Copy and Paste Commands from Web Pages
This episode describes newly revealed vulnerabilities where copying and pasting text from a web page can open the site visitor up to attack.