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2025 Year-in-Review

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  • The year’s biggest PKI lessons — fast.

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Description

In this fast, 30-minute year-end recap, we’ll share what 2025 reinforced for teams responsible for digital trust: leadership feels outages and broken use cases, visibility is the foundation, and many of the most painful PKI incidents are preventable with the right operational discipline.

We’ll revisit the themes that kept showing up throughout the year and highlight the most common real-world failure patterns that disrupt critical services. You’ll leave with a clearer way to communicate PKI risk in business terms — plus practical takeaways you can apply immediately.

 

Webinar Recap

In this year-end recap, we looked back at the PKI issues that showed up again and again in 2025 — especially the quiet, preventable problems that turn into real business outages. We discussed why PKI often stays out of sight until something breaks, how lack of visibility continues to be the common thread behind incidents, and why many failures aren’t the result of attacks, but of missed details and accumulated technical debt. 

We also shared real-world examples that highlight how small PKI oversights can cascade into major operational disruptions, reinforcing the importance of ownership, hygiene, and reducing surprises before they impact the business. The session closes with practical guidance on what teams should focus on to strengthen PKI resilience going forward — without relying on heroics or last-minute firefighting. 

Presenters

Mark B. Cooper

Founder and CEO 

Mark B. Cooper, president and founder of PKI Solutions, has been known as “The PKI Guy” since his early days at Microsoft. He has deep knowledge and experience in all things Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). PKI Solutions LLC provides consulting, training — including online training — and Gartner-recognized software for PKI Posture Management at enterprises, many of them Fortune 500 companies. PKI Solutions has led hundreds of PKI training sessions, including private training sessions, across the country and around the world. Cooper is an avid proponent of the SHAKEN/STIR global standard to end robocalls, which uses authentication and PKI to verify callers’ identities. Prior to founding PKI Solutions, Cooper was a senior engineer at Microsoft, where he was a PKI and identity management subject matter expert who designed, implemented, and supported Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) environments for Microsoft’s largest customers. 

 

Jake Grandlienard

Managing PKI Consultant

Jake Grandlienard brings more than 20 years of industry experience as a senior level engineer. He has spent the past 10 years designing, leading, and training clients in Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) implementations for medium to enterprise-scale Fortune 500 companies. He specializes in PKI implementations of Microsoft-based identity solutions, including Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) as well as integration with other security and identity management technologies. Jake is a subject matter expert in PKI, mobile device management software, smart card management software, and Hardware Security Module (HSM) integration.