PKI Spotlight Improves the Operational Resilience of Enterprise Identity and Data Encryption Solutions
Configuration, Availability, and Recoverability of All of Your PKI and HSM Environments OK, I’ll admit it. When it comes to talking about PKI environments, operational resilience is one of my favorite topics. Operational resilience is important because it defines how your organization’s identity and data encryption systems remain secure and operational while mitigating risks and […]
Hidden switches of Certutil.exe and Certreq.exe

Hey Kids, Rock and Roll! Two of the most reliable toolsets in Windows for the last two decades have been the tandem of certutil.exe and certreq.exe. It’s no secret there are a wealth of very useful functions exposed in the basic usage of these tools, also documented publicly here: certutil.exe public documentation certreq.exe public documentation […]
What’s New in PKI Spotlight | October 2022 Release Update
PKI Solutions is excited to announce the latest enhancements to PKI Spotlight, the first Public Key Infrastructure management solution built from the ground up for real-time monitoring and alerting of the availability, configuration, and security of all your PKI and HSM environments. This release of PKI Spotlight introduces the following capabilities: Certificate Revocation List (CRL) […]
PKI Spotlight® now has over 90 Best Practice alerts with its latest release.

PKI Spotlight now has over 90 Best Practice alerts with its latest release. The latest release of PKI Spotlight includes over 90 best practice alerts, representing a significant advancement in PKI management. These alerts further strengthen the platform’s ability to identify and address potential security weaknesses, ensuring the integrity and reliability of PKIs. By leveraging […]
New Whitepaper for Securing Microsoft NDES and Intune is Released
I am very pleased to announce that the whitepaper I have been working on for several months with Microsoft has been released. The Whitepaper is titled “Securing and Hardening Network Device Enrollment Service for Microsoft Intune and System Center Configuration Manager” and provides guidance not only for Microsoft NDES deployments, but also Microsoft Intune deployments […]
PKI Solutions Live Q&A
If you joined our PKI Solutions Office Hours – our live Q&A – held on April 2, 2020 with Mark Cooper, Vadims Podāns, and Jacob Grandlienard, you were part of a lively PKI discussion. With questions around setting up permissions in ADCS, the pros and cons of where CDPs are located, and configuring NDES, this […]
Deleting certificates from Windows Certificate Store programmatically (PowerShell and C#)
Yesterday I went through one thread on Reddit: New to PS and want to create a script to clear all personal certificates from a local machine and something was suspicious to me. Then I went further and asked google for similar question and examined first page: Delete certificate from Computer Store Removing a certificate from […]
Field Report – Mitigating PKI Template Risks for Ephemeral Workloads and Desktop
Recently we were working with one of our large customers to address some challenges that aren’t new in PKI, but that we were able to handle with an entirely new set of tools to Mitigate PKI Risks. This customer is not only a consulting services customer leveraging our expertise to move off of a managed PKI […]