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ACME Live Q&A

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  • Your Questions Answered

    Date: Thursday, May 28th

    Time: 10:00 – 10:45 AM PT

    View the full webinar recording below.

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Recap

After our April ACME webinar generated more questions than we could answer live, we dedicated an entire session to audience Q&A. Mark B. Cooper and Jake Grandlienard explored the practical realities of certificate automation, including vendor support, deployment challenges, and the role ACME plays alongside existing PKI technologies. The discussion goes beyond the protocol itself and focuses on the questions organizations are asking as they evaluate automation options and plan for the future of certificate management.

Description

Our recent session on ACME and enterprise PKI sparked a huge response — and a lot of great questions we didn’t have time to answer. 

So we’re coming back for a live follow-up discussion focused entirely on audience Q&A. 

Join the PKI Solutions team for a 45-minute interactive session where we’ll go deeper into how ACME works in real-world PKI environments, including Microsoft ADCS, and answer the questions that matter most to practitioners evaluating or deploying certificate automation at scale. 

Whether your organization is actively implementing ACME, exploring automation strategies, or trying to better understand where ACME fits within enterprise PKI, this session is designed to provide practical guidance, real-world insight, and direct access to experienced PKI professionals. 

Topics to include: 

  • How ACME fits into enterprise PKI architectures 
  • Real-world deployment patterns and operational considerations 
  • ACME in Microsoft and hybrid environments 
  • Security, policy, and governance considerations 
  • Common implementation roadblocks and lessons learned 
  • What’s emerging in the ACME ecosystem — including Microsoft’s direction with ACM 

Bring your questions, scenarios, and challenges — we’ll handle the conversation live.

 

Presenters

Mark B Cooper

Founder & 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

Distinguished PKI Architect

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.