Why Certificate Outages Happen, and How Real-Time Monitoring Prevents Them
Certificate outages are almost never a hack. A certificate quietly expires, a Certificate Authority stops responding, or a revocation service goes silent, and whatever depended on it stops working. Real-time Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) monitoring prevents this by continuously monitoring the certificates, Certificate Authorities (CAs), revocation infrastructure, and supporting PKI services that applications depend on, […]
PKI Solutions Partners with Unsung to Expand PKI Posture Management Software and Services in the UK
PKI Solutions, a provider of PKI Posture Management software and services, today announced a partnership with Unsung, a UK-based consultancy specializing in Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Under the partnership, Unsung will resell PKI Spotlight® in the UK and provide professional services supporting deployment, integration, remediation, operations, and PKI transformation initiatives. The partnership brings together PKI […]
What Is PKI? A Plain-English Guide for Security Leaders
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is the system of keys, digital certificates, and policies that let people, devices, and software prove who they are and communicate securely. It matters because almost every trusted interaction in your organization, from a login to a banking site, to one machine quietly authenticating to another, depends on PKI working correctly […]
Certighost: How to Determine Whether Your Enterprise CA Was Exploited
Microsoft’s patch closes the Certighost vulnerability — but it cannot tell you whether an attacker previously used it. Here is how to assess your exposure and hunt for evidence with PKI Spotlight®. Certighost is the kind of vulnerability that keeps PKI teams awake at night. Tracked as CVE-2026-54121, it affects Active Directory Certificate Services and […]
Trust, But Verify: The Missing Step in Certificate Automation
For years, the challenge for most PKIs was getting certificates issued quickly enough. Today, that is no longer the hard part. Modern Certificate Lifecycle Management platforms have dramatically improved the process of requesting, approving, issuing, and renewing certificates. As certificate lifetimes continue to shrink, automation has become essential rather than optional. However, this automation has […]
47-Day TLS Certificates Are Coming
If your public-facing TLS certificates still live on a spreadsheet, brace yourself. The way most teams handle certificates is about to break. The CA/Browser Forum has set an aggressive schedule for shrinking how long TLS certificates stay valid. By March 2027, newly issued certificates max out at 100 days. By March 2029, that drops to […]
PKI Solutions Celebrates Growth with a New Office in Downtown Portland
PKI Solutions is pleased to announce that we have relocated our corporate headquarters to the heart of downtown Portland. This move comes from a surge in growth at the company, not only in gaining new customers and users, but also the expansion of our team. To continue to provide the best possible support to our […]
PKI Spotlight Release 32.1: SSO Configuration Improvements, Topology Changes, and Password Encryption Enhancements
PKI Solutions is pleased to announce the release of PKI Spotlight® version 32.1, which include enhancements to key components within the solution. SSO Configuration Enhancement As part of an effort for ease of use, the Entra ID SSO setup screen has been simplified to show only the fields needed for configuration. Saving your settings and […]