PKI Solutions Wins the 2026 Globee® Awards for Cybersecurity
Portland, Oregon – March 2026 – PKI Solutions is honored to be named a winner in the 2026 Globee® Awards for Cybersecurity, a globally recognized program celebrating excellence in all areas of cybersecurity. This prestigious recognition highlights PKI Solutions for its contributions to digital security, innovation in threat defense, and commitment to advancing cybersecurity solutions. The Globee® […]
Logitech Inconveniences Customers with Poor Certificate Management
If you use Logitech devices with your Mac, you likely weren’t a happy camper back in January! Right after celebrating the new year, Logitech customers booted up their MacBooks to find that their device customizations were gone. Angry users flooded the Logitech forums asking, “What the heck happened?” Since you’re here reading this particular blog, […]
Certificate Revocation Explained
Posts in this series: Part 1 — What Is PKI? Part 2 — What Is a Certificate Authority? Part 3 — Why PKI Fails Part 4 — (this post) Certificate Revocation Explained Certificate Revocation Defined Certificate revocation is the process of invalidating a digital certificate before its expiration date. This ensures that compromised or untrusted […]
Issues with In-Place Upgrade of Windows OCSP Server
Recently, a client reached out after experiencing issues with an in-place upgrade of a Windows OCSP server. After the upgrade, the Online Responder had a bad signing certificate and would not request a new one. This is a unique case, as the Online Responder server was using a Luna HSM for key protection and had […]
Why PKI Fails
Posts in this series: Part 1 — What Is PKI? Part 2 — What Is a Certificate Authority? Part 3 (this post) — Why PKI Fails Part 4 — Certificate Revocation Explained PKI Failure Defined PKI fails primarily due to operational issues such as expired certificates, revocation failures, misconfigurations, and lack of monitoring. Most failures […]
What Is a Certificate Authority (CA)?
Posts in this series: Part 1 — What Is PKI? Part 2 (this post) — What Is a Certificate Authority? Part 3 — Why PKI Fails Part 4 — Certificate Revocation Explained Certificate Authority Defined A Certificate Authority (CA) is a trusted system that issues and signs digital certificates. These certificates allow users, devices, and […]
PKI Spotlight 29.1 Release Announcement
PKI Spotlight 29.1 marks a significant expansion of PKI observability with the introduction of monitoring for Public Certificate Authorities. For the first time, PKI Spotlight brings internal and public trust infrastructure into a single operational and security view. Public PKI is no longer limited to a handful of web certificates. It now underpins SaaS platforms, […]
What Is PKI? A Practical Guide to Public Key Infrastructure
Post in this series: Part 1 (this post) — What Is PKI? Part 2 — What Is a Certificate Authority? Part 3 — Why PKI Fails Part 4 — Certificate Revocation Explained PKI Defined Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is a framework of technologies, processes, and policies used to issue and manage digital certificates. These certificates […]