PKI Solutions Wins 2026 Fortress Cybersecurity Award for Detection
PORTLAND, OR JUNE 2, 2026 — PKI Solutions is honored to be awarded Best Detection Product in the 2026 Fortress Cybersecurity Awards. The 2026 Fortress Cybersecurity Awards honor achievement across the full landscape of digital defense, spotlighting the companies and leaders moving security beyond reaction and into proactive, accountable practice. PKI Spotlight was recognized as […]
PKI Spotlight Release 31.1: New EJBCA Virtual Agent and Support for CRL Partitioning
New Feature: EJBCA Monitoring This release introduces new monitoring support for EJCBA, a platform-independent, open-source PKI that is known for its flexibility and robust nature. PKI Spotlight has developed a direct API integration that acts as a virtual agent to gain visibility into CA health, availability, topology and configuration risk. Through this virtual agent, customers […]
PKI Solutions at 12
From Grassroots to Growth Mark B. Cooper, also known as the “The PKI Guy,” founded PKI Solutions on April 1, 2014, with the goal of helping organizations safeguard their PKI infrastructure. Through a combination of consulting, assessments, training, and now a robust software solution in PKI Spotlight, what began as a grassroots consulting business has […]
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 […]