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💡 Imagine your business as an office building with multiple locked rooms. Long-term SSL certificates are like using the same key for all doors indefinitely—convenient, but risky if the key falls into the wrong hands. Short-term SSL certificates, on the other hand, are like having alternating keys that change regularly, limiting access and enhancing security. 🛡 Now, partnering with Digicert automation is akin to a master key system, efficiently managing these dynamic keys. It's not just about secure doors; it's about agile access control. With Digicert, your business stays ahead, adapting swiftly to industry changes, ensuring a fortified and flexible digital environment. DigiCert explains the role of automation and dives into how short-lived certificates go hand in hand to increase security and ensure compliance with best practices. Reach out to me by booking a meeting using the link in my profile or sending me a DM to talk more about Automation. #Digicert #Automation #SSL #Google #CABForum

In today's article, Broadtech Company is a software development firm. They use many softwares and applications to accomplish their daily tasks. Most of the applications they use require authentication, hence they use numerous secrets.This leads to distribution of secrets across different platforms which renders it insecure and also so easy to forget the authentication credentials. How then can we make sure we manage these secrets in a better and secure way ❓ ❓ 🔐 Unlocking Secrets Management with HashiCorp Vault 🔐 In today's digital landscape, securing sensitive data is non-negotiable. HashiCorp Vault is a game-changer in secrets management. 🛡️ What is HashiCorp Vault? 🛡️ Vault is an open-source powerhouse for managing and protecting your most valuable secrets—API keys, passwords, certificates, and more. 🌟 Key Features: 🌟 ✨ Dynamic Secrets: Generate secrets on the fly. ✨ Access Control: Set who accesses what. ✨ Encryption as a Service: Keep data locked. ✨ Audit Trails: Compliance made easy. ✨ Secret Rotation: Automatic security updates. 🌐 Use Cases: 🌐 🚀 Vault powers: Application secrets Database credentials SSL/TLS certificates Tokenization for PCI DSS 🔑 Getting Started: 🔑 Install Vault. Initialize vault and unseal. Configure and secure. Integrate with your apps, databases..... 🚀 Elevate your security game with HashiCorp Vault! #Cybersecurity #SecretsManagement #HashiCorpVault For broader information on this magical tool: https://lnkd.in/dVq7zFrZ

iMessage with PQ3: The new state of the art in quantum-secure messaging at scale https://lnkd.in/eek74zJ3 #DevSecOps #SecDevOps #ApplicationSecurity #AppSec #CloudSecurity #CloudSec #SoftwareSecurity

Managing private and public keys can be met with many complexities while sending hundreds or even thousands of encrypted files to external parties using #OpenPGP. Read our latest blog post on the advantages of centralized key management and uncover the simple, yet effective solution to streamline how you share encrypted files with third parties. #DataSecurity #DataProtection #EncryptedFiles

SandboxAQ is catalyzing a fundamental shift in zero trust architecture and modern cryptography management. Our Security Suite has already achieved significant traction among prominent global banks, telcos, healthcare systems, tech companies and government agencies. If you are talking to your customers about their zero trust architecture, are you also talking about cryptographic management? https://lnkd.in/evEqFS6m

MinIO Key Encryption Service (KES) is a service developed by MinIO to bridge the gap between applications that run in #Kubernetes and a centralized Key Management Service (KMS). KES is an integral part when it comes to managing keys used to encrypt objects. Inefficient and slow KMS systems can degrade overall cluster performance. So it's paramount to ensure the service performing these actions is fast, lean, performant and scalable. AJ takes you through the steps so you can get your KES back to having valid unexpired certs in no time. https://lnkd.in/gxqh7XCC 

Microsoft blames Crowdstrike meltdown on 2009 European Union deal The security incident affected 8.5 million Windows systems worldwide as commercial operations were hit with the “blue screen of death.” According to The Wall Street Journal, a Microsoft spokesperson blamed the recent Crowdstrike failure on a 2009 regulatory deal between Microsoft and the European Union. The spokesperson claimed Microsoft agreed to give external security developers the same level of access to interact with the software as Microsoft, paving the way for critical bugs. Patrick Wardle, the CEO of DoubleYou, explained that monolithic ecosystems like Apple’s MacOS are more resistant to such critical errors because of their walled-off architecture. In 2020, Apple revoked similar security clearances for its operating system, insulating it from third-party security failures and coding conflicts. The failure that brought the world to its knees Between July 18 and July 19, the world was hit by what has been called “the largest information technology outage in history.” The IT blackout affected roughly 8.5 million Windows systems worldwide, halting operations at financial institutions, airports, emergency services, and media broadcasting networks. At the center of the crash was an upgrade bug related to third-party security firm CrowdStrike. In an update, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz stressed that the downtime was not due to a hack or malicious exploit and directed users to interact with official Crowdtrike support channels and update their affected software through the security firm’s portal. The CEO also reassured the public that the issue had been identified and fixed. Decentralized blockchain architecture solves this In the wake of the critical systems failure, the crypto community took to social media to highlight how distributed computing systems immunize against security vulnerabilities inherent in centralized systems. For more please visit: https://lnkd.in/dGEaxtY6

You cannot manage certificate renewal manually in even a medium sized organisation. Certificate expiry can cause outage, and also reputational damage if customer facing. To automate you need to design certificate management into the application. From the article: "When it comes to managing these certificates, the shift left approach makes sense. Developers should incorporate certificate renewal alerts within their development workflows. They should also have self-service certificate management capabilities in accordance with PKI policies to automate certificate issuance and renewal." https://lnkd.in/eXDq4ZJA

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IBM’s Quantum Safe Toolkit… 1. IBM Quantum Safe Explorer - to enable organizations to scan source and object code to locate cryptographic assets, dependencies, vulnerabilities and to build a Cryptography Bill of Materials (CBOM). This allows teams to view and aggregate potential risks into one central location. 2. IBM Quantum Safe Advisor - allows the creation of a dynamic or operational view of cryptographic inventory to guide remediation and analyzes cryptographic posture and compliance to prioritize risks. 3. IBM Quantum Safe Remediator - enables organizations to deploy and test best practice-based quantum-safe remediation patterns to understand the potential impacts on systems and assets as they prepare to deploy quantum-safe solutions.