Posts by ThePKIGuy
The PKI Guy explores IoT security with Doug Beattie of GlobalSign
Q&A with Doug Beattie, vice president of product management, GlobalSign TPG: Tell us about your scalable encryption. DB: GlobalSign is an identity services company providing cloud-based, highly scalable PKI solutions for enterprises needing to conduct safe commerce, communications, content delivery, and community interactions. Our identity and security solutions enable businesses, large enterprises, cloud-based service providers,…
Read MoreThe PKI Guy discusses telecommunications with Dr. Charles Clancy of Virginia Tech
Q&A with Dr. Charles Clancy, executive director of Virginia Tech’s Hume Center for National Security and Technology, engineering professor, and author TPG: Tell us how you’re involved in cybersecurity for telecommunications. CC: I have been working at the intersection of cybersecurity and telecommunications for the past 20 years. When I was a PhD student, WiFi…
Read MoreNew Online PKI Training Courses Are a Deep Dive into Public Key Infrastructure: Critical for IT Security, IoT, 5G, and SHAKEN/STIR
Why Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)? A PKI is the core of IT for enterprises, supporting network authentication, data encryption, code signing and secure email. In addition, in the next two years, 42 percent of Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as temperature sensors, televisions, and smart vehicles will rely primarily on digital certificates for identification…
Read MoreThe PKI Guy talks enterprise security with Ryan Smith of Futurex
Q&A with Ryan Smith, vice president, global business development, Futurex TPG: Tell us about your cryptographic solutions. RS: Futurex is a global manufacturer of FIPS 140-2 Level 3 and PCI HSM validated hardware security modules and enterprise security applications. At a high level, our focus is on three areas: cryptographic processing, key and certificate management,…
Read MoreCertutil Bug in Windows Server 2016 Fails to Enumerate Issuance, Application Policies and OIDs
Recently one of our colleagues at nCipher in England related to us an issue reported by one of its customers using the certutil -verify -urlfetch command against an issued end-entity certificate on Windows Server 2016 (Build 1607). Running the command with no extra options, the command indicates a failure in the output (see figure below).…
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