Category: Certificates

Certificates

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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Red Sift Certificates: The best AppViewX alternative

Billy McDiarmid

Hunting for an alternative to AppViewX that helps you monitor your certificates to stop downtime and security risk? You’ve come to the right place. Let’s dive into a no-frills, straight-up comparison between AppViewX and Red Sift Certificates.  AppViewX Overview AppViewX CERT+ is AppViewX’s certificate monitoring tool. According to their docs, “AppViewX’s CERT+ provides an…

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Red Sift Certificates: The best Venafi alternative

Billy McDiarmid

Looking for an alternative to Venafi that helps you monitor your certificates to stop downtime and security risk? You’re in the right place.  Here is your definitive comparison guide for Venafi and Red Sift Certificates – one of the most popular Venafi alternatives on the market.  Red Sift Certificates Overview Red Sift Certificates is…

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A real-world view: How expired certificates can cause service downtime and financial…

Billy McDiarmid

To shine a light on the importance of proactively monitoring your company’s Certificate Inventory, we’ve compiled a list of high-profile companies whose oversights have led to website downtime and financial losses...Continue Reading: A real-world view: How expired certificates can cause service downtime and financial losses

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