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Security Terminology

Easily understandable explanations of common industry terms.

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    Consolidation Case: Finance & Banking

    Case Study from Sectigo

    Case Study Jan 09, 2024

    Sectigo supports a leading financial institution fully automate and consolidate its certificate operations, improving security while reducing manual work.

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    What is the SSL certificate chain of trust

    Blog Post from Sectigo

    Blog Post Jan 09, 2024

    Sectigo explores what a certificate chain is, the components of a certificate chain of trust, why it's important, and how it works.

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    TLS/SSL certificates and where they’re stored

    Blog Post from Sectigo

    Blog Post Jan 08, 2024

    SSL/TLS certificates enable encrypted online communication by authenticating parties through a handshake, ensuring a secure and validated connection.

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    MGM & Caesars Cyberattacks: Lessons Learned

    News Article from Sectigo

    News Article Jan 05, 2024

    Sectigo's Chief Experience Officer, Tim Callan, was featured in the January edition of Cyber Defense Magazine. Tim shares the lessons businesses can learn from the MGM and Caesars cyberattacks, and suggests how to make sure you are not next.

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    Enhancements to Root CA and Hierarchies

    Notification from Sectigo

    Notification Jan 05, 2024

    Sectigo is updating and enhancing Root CA certificates.

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    G2 Awards Sectigo Leader Status in Certificate Lifecycle Management

    Press Release from Sectigo

    Press Release Jan 04, 2024

    SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., — January 04, 2024 — Sectigo®, the industry’s most innovative provider of comprehensive certificate lifecycle management (CLM), today announced that it has been recognized as a leader in the secure socket layer/transport layer security (SSL/TLS) certificates and certificate lifecycle management (CLM) software categories in the G2 Winter 2024 Grid report.

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    Root Causes - A PKI & Security Podcast

    EPISODE 352

    Broadcast Date:
    January 4, 2024

    15 minutes

    Podcast Jan 04, 2024

    Root Causes 352: FBI Vs. End-to-end Encryption in Meta Apps

    Meta is finally rolling out end-to-end encryption across its messaging apps. This is the latest chapter in the long story of government versus encryption.

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    The Economic Impact of Cyber Breaches

    News Article from Sectigo

    News Article Jan 03, 2024

    Nick France, Chief Technology Officer at Sectigo, joins Jill Malandrino on Nasdaq TradeTalks to discuss the economic impact of cyber breaches and what 2024 will look like for budgeting and cyber strategy.

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    A banner year for quantum computing: What to expect in 2024

    News Article from Sectigo

    News Article Jan 02, 2024

    Sectigo’s Tim Callan makes his top predictions for what the year ahead will hold for quantum computing and encryption.

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    AI scam warning as fraudsters can 'easily' clone voices - how to protect yourself

    News Article from Sectigo

    News Article Dec 28, 2023

    Nick France, CTO of Sectigo, said voice impersonation can be used for a variety of attacks. An experiment recently showed AI can be used to make deepfakes capable of bypassing voice recognition for online banking.

    He warned: "People think phone scams, that successfully manipulate someone’s voice is mission impossible, but the reality is that AI deepfake voice technology is more democratised than we like to believe, it doesn’t take an MIT graduate to pull this off.

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    Root Causes - A PKI & Security Podcast

    EPISODE 351

    Broadcast Date:
    December 27, 2023

    18 minutes

    Podcast Dec 27, 2023

    Root Causes 351: 2024 Predictions

    We look forward to 2024 and predict trends for PKI, certificates, and digital identity.

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    Root Causes - A PKI & Security Podcast

    EPISODE 350

    Broadcast Date:
    December 21, 2023

    15 minutes

    Podcast Dec 21, 2023

    Root Causes 350: Public Certificates & the GDPR Right to Be Forgotten

    GDPR provides a "right to be forgotten," whereby individuals can demand the removal of PII from IT systems. This can run contrary to public PKI systems.