Blockchain Is Only as Secure as Your Private Keys
Blockchain Is Only as Secure as Your Private Keys Scott Carter Mon, 08/27/2018 - 19:48 A properly secured private key is known by the person sending or communicating the Bitcoin and the person receiving or hearing the Bitcoin. Because Bitcoin is not a centralized currency, which is the entire point ... Read More
Financial Impact of Cyber Attacks on Banking Sector as a Result of Poor SSH Key Management
Financial Impact of Cyber Attacks on Banking Sector as a Result of Poor SSH Key Management Scott Carter Thu, 08/23/2018 - 15:22 In accordance with Christine Lagarde, an IMF staff modeling exercise estimated that annual losses to financial institutions from cyber-attacks could reach up to $350 billion, eroding bank profits ... Read More
5 Ways that Automation Improves Machine Identity Protection
5 Ways that Automation Improves Machine Identity Protection Scott Carter Wed, 08/22/2018 - 11:40 Try using manual methods to control today’s dynamic machine identities and you’ll quickly become frustrated and overwhelmed. Automating management and security processes is the most effective way to build and maintain a successful machine identity protection ... Read More
What Are Certificate Signing Requests?
What Are Certificate Signing Requests? Scott Carter Tue, 08/21/2018 - 16:09 For those who use the Public Key Cryptography Standards 10 (PKCS10) Certification Request Standard, one of the most common standards for certificate signing requests, users must provide an unsigned copy of their digital certificate to the CA. They can ... Read More
HTTP vs HTTPS: Will the World Follow Google?
HTTP vs HTTPS: Will the World Follow Google? Scott Carter Mon, 08/20/2018 - 12:53 Why HTTPS? Data sent via the HTTPS protocol is encrypted to keep it secure from commercial and private hackers. It can't be modified or corrupted while in transit and it authenticates by proving that your users ... Read More
The Pains of Encryption Key Management: Why Manual Processes Are So Hard
The Pains of Encryption Key Management: Why Manual Processes Are So Hard Scott Carter Thu, 08/16/2018 - 18:53 In its 2018 Global Encryption Trends Study, Thales along with Venafi and Geobridge sponsored Ponemon Institute to survey 5,252 IT and security professionals in 12 different countries about their organizations' encryption use ... Read More
The Internet of Things: Getting Smarter about Securing Smart Technologies
The Internet of Things: Getting Smarter about Securing Smart Technologies Scott Carter Wed, 08/15/2018 - 19:13 Machine identities are not being secured in the same way as human identities online, resulting in a lack of encryption across networks, among other things. When two machines can talk without encryption, or are ... Read More
How to Check for Revoked Certificates
How to Check for Revoked Certificates Scott Carter Tue, 07/31/2018 - 12:33 Many methods exist for publishing and querying these lists but few of them are widely used. This is largely because the methods are slow, prone to failure or are just plain complicated to understand and implement. So, what ... Read More
HTTPS Should be Implemented Everywhere…Including on Static Websites
HTTPS Should be Implemented Everywhere…Including on Static Websites Scott Carter Thu, 07/26/2018 - 08:16 It makes sense for banks and tech firms to enable HTTPS on dynamic websites that are built on top of databases containing important information. But many don’t see the point when it comes to static websites ... Read More
5 Hidden Costs of Certificate Management
5 Hidden Costs of Certificate Management Scott Carter Wed, 07/25/2018 - 09:15 Once organizations realize the potential savings, certificate management is a prime candidate for automation. One Venafi customer recently did a rudimentary, back-of-the-envelope calculation and came up with a cost savings of $275,000 per year after automating certificate management ... Read More
