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When PKI Becomes a Priority, It’s Already Too Late
In July 2024, the Bank of England’s CHAPS system handling $467B in daily transactions crashed for 91 minutes due to an expired certificate, stalling SWIFT payments and causing $40M+ in wire delays. A costly reminder of Equifax’s 2017 breach, where an overlooked certificate lapse contributed to a $700M disaster.
For CISOs, PKI teams, and IAM leaders at financial institutions, an expired certificate is just the tip of the iceberg.
Hidden PKI risks, misconfigured certificates and HSMs, and vulnerabilities go unnoticed, until it’s too late.
And migrating to the cloud doesn’t solve these issues.
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Why Financial Institutions Can’t Risk PKI Failures
- Outages that stall critical payments
- Failed Pen Tests exposing security gaps
- Failed Compliance Audits triggering costly fines
- Loss of Brand Integrity, which underpins the trust of financial institutions
These failures don’t just disrupt operations, they trigger regulatory scrutiny and financial penalties.
The Compliance Challenge: Why Outdated Methods No Longer Work
DORA, SWIFT CSCF, PCI DSS 4.0, and NYDFS require more than spreadsheets and in-house scripts to maintain compliance. Yet, many financial institutions still rely on manual tracking and outdated Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) tools that can’t keep up with evolving threats.
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Why Traditional Approaches to PKI Fail
- Static spreadsheets and custom-built scripts fail to provide real-time threat detection and reduce organizational resilience.
- Disparate PKI & HSM environments create bling spots across human, non-human, and workflow identities spanning multiple vendors and environments.
- CLM tools lack visibility into the HSMs, CRLs, OCSP health, security vulnerabilities, and authentication dependencies.
These outdated methods leave financial institutions exposed to operational failures, security gaps, and regulatory penalties.
That’s where PKI Spotlight comes in.
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PKI Spotlight®: Real-Time PKI Posture Management for Financial Institutions
PKI Spotlight delivers real-time monitoring and visibility, purpose-built to detect vulnerabilities and strengthen resilience for the security and compliance demands of financial institutions.
✔ Real-Time Visibility into PKI & HSMs
PKI Spotlight provides continuous auditing of multiple PKIs and HSM vendors, ensuring proactive compliance with PCI DSS 4.0, DORA, SWIFT CSCF, and NYDFS.
Instead of manual tracking, financial institutions get automated insights that uncover blind spots in certificate lifecycle management (CLM) enhancing security posture while strengthening operational resilience:
- Industry-first Is-Alive feature ensures PKI and HSM components are healthy, available, and secure, to prevent unexpected outages
- CRL/OCSP health monitoring to avoid authentication failures
- Certificate expiration risks before they disrupt transactions
- Cryptographic compliance gaps that lead to audit failures
✔ Air-Gapped & Offline Deployment
PKI Spotlight operates within existing infrastructure, with no reliance on cloud-based services ensuring compliance with FCA, ECB, and DFS regulations.
- Eliminates exposure to external attack vectors by monitoring air-gapped environments previously the most difficult to monitor.
✔ Incident Response & Resilience
Detect and mitigate PKI and HSM failures before they stall high-value wire transfers, card payment authorizations, or interbank settlements.
- Monitors cryptographic hygiene to prevent security gaps
For example, detecting weak RSA keys still in use, non-compliant certificate templates or non-compliant algorithms before they lead to failed transactions or compliance violations.
- Tracks certificate revocation status tracking to maintain regulatory compliance
- Ensures HSM configuration oversight to eliminate operational blind spots
Financial institutions can’t afford failed security assessments, payment disruptions, or multi-million-dollar regulatory fines.
Seamless Deployment. Immediate Protection. No Disruptions.
- Deploys in minutes. Not months
- No rip-and-replace required. Works alongside existing CLM solutions
- Instant visibility into PKI risks affecting transactions, payment processing, and compliance audits
Case Study: How Greenhill Bank Transformed Its PKI Security
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The Challenges to Solve
Greenhill, a global investment bank, realized that PKI is a priority. With operations spanning five continents, their PKI infrastructure grew complex to meet demands and too important to assume managed securely.
• Misconfigured PKI and HSMs with multi vendors posed an unacceptable risk
• A certificate failure could derail $50B in transactions.
• GDPR and DORA fines loomed if security gaps weren’t addressed -
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PKI Solutions for Financial Institution
Greenhill deployed PKI Spotlight to secure thousands of certificates and HSMs, closing security gaps their previous vendor failed to detect.
“If I could go back, I’d have called PKI Solutions sooner. We lost valuable time with a vendor who wasn’t built for the scale and security demands of financial services.”
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The Outcomes PKI Solutions Enables
• PKI and HSM blind spots eliminated
• Compliance risks mitigated, avoiding costly fines
• PKI secured at scale
Why PKI Spotlight?
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PKI management became a priority as we expanded our use of digital certificates...The turning point was recognizing that we didn’t have the confidence to handle emergencies or complex implementations on our own. That’s when we knew we needed specialized help.
John Shaffer, CIO & CISO, Greenhill
The PKI Solutions Difference
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Industry-Leading PKI Expertise
PKI Spotlight gives you confidence in the security of your PKI and eliminates the threats and additional business costs of PKI outages. Maintain continuity, increase operational resilience, and optimize availability with solutions custom-built for the specific needs of your enterprise.
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Unique Focus on PKI
With PKI Solutions, test, design, deploy, and operate PKI confidently knowing you have the perspective of the world’s foremost PKI experts. Our teams have identified and remediated thousands of different PKI scenarios, enabling us to find and solve any configuration problem or issue that might cause expensive PKI outages.
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Built for Your Business
PKI Solutions is specifically designed to meet the needs of financial institutions. Our solution is built with the complexities of financial networks in mind and customized to address the unique security, encryption, and identity management challenges, along with strict regulatory requirements that financial organizations face.
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Regulatory Compliance and Financial Resilience
PKI is essential for protecting sensitive financial data, supporting business continuity, and meeting strict regulations like PCI DSS, GDPR, and DORA. PKI Solutions strengthens security, mitigates risks, and ensures continuous compliance for financial institutions navigating complex regulatory environments.
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End-to-End Solution
With PKI Spotlight, only PKI Solutions provides true preparation and continuous awareness. PKI Solutions views prevention as an essential part of remediation and elevates operational resilience and security posture with real-time monitoring and visibility.
Financial Institutions Can’t Risk PKI Failures
Strengthen Security & Compliance with PKI Spotlight.
• Is your PKI resilient enough to pass the next audit?
• Are hidden certificate failures waiting to disrupt transactions?
• Is your HSM properly configured, or are you running blind?
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If you’re ready to learn more about our essential solutions for your essential PKI, reach out today. Book time with one of our specialists to discuss your needs and how we can meet and exceed your business requirements.
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