One Certificate
= Impacts Billions
See how financial institutions are rethinking PKI to prevent outages, strengthen compliance, and eliminate hidden risks.
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.
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The Compliance Challenge: Why Outdated Methods No Longer Work
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These outdated methods leave financial institutions exposed to operational failures, security gaps, and regulatory penalties.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.
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 delivers real-time monitoring and visibility, purpose-built to detect vulnerabilities and strengthen resilience for the security and compliance demands of financial institutions.
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
Detect and mitigate PKI and HSM failures before they stall high-value wire transfers, card payment authorizations, or interbank settlements.
- 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
Why PKI Spotlight?
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
See the unseen with
PKI Spotlight®
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