Category: Certificates

Certificates

How to build an inventory of certificates for PCI DSS 4.0 Requirement…

Rebecca Warren

We talk to organizations daily that are preparing for PCI DSS 4.0 requirements. March 31, 2025 marks the end of the transition period, and on this date, businesses must be fully compliant with PCI DSS v4.0.1.  One of the ways PCI 4.0.1 varies from PCI 3.2 is an updated Requirement 4, which covers encrypting…

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Red Sift Certificates: The Next Generation

Francesca Rünger-Field

Today, we are thrilled to unveil the next generation of Red Sift Certificates, featuring a comprehensive UI update that aligns seamlessly with the broader Red Sift Pulse Platform. This release also introduces several new enhancements, including advanced AI-powered filtering, a faster and more accurate search feature, and content classification capabilities. This development signifies a…

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Preventing certificate related violations in cybersecurity frameworks:  A guide to certificate monitoring…

Rebecca Warren

TLS is one of the most widely adopted security protocols in the world allowing for unprecedented levels of commerce across the internet.  At the core of the TLS protocol is TLS certificates. Organizations must deploy TLS certificates and corresponding private keys to their systems to provide them with unique identities that can be reliably…

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A confident deployment guide for TLS and PKI

Ivan Ristic

Our journey to better network transport security has been quite the ride, filled with ups and downs. Back in the ’90s, when SSL and the Netscape browser were just taking off, things were pretty hard. We were dealing with weak encryption, export restrictions on cryptography, and computers that couldn’t keep up. But over the…

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Certificate Monitoring versus Certificate Lifecycle Management

Billy McDiarmid

TLS certificates – once called SSL certificates and often referred to as just “certificates” – are one of the core ways we keep the internet safe and secure. Certificates encrypt data to make sure it is transmitted privately between your browser, the website you’re visiting, and the website server.  But as the number of…

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Certificate Transparency logs are the best way to prevent PKI-related outages

Ivan Ristic

The Business Need for Certificate Monitoring and Management PKI certificates make the world go around, but they come with a serious flaw: they expire, and—as they do that—cause business disruption and lead to loss of customer confidence. Countless hours have been spent installing, monitoring, and rotating certificates to keep the Internet running. This problem…

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