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    1.7 Million Certificates Revoked in 24 Hours — Would Your Environment Survive?
    Compliance

    1.7 Million Certificates Revoked in 24 Hours — Would Your Environment Survive?

    April 10, 202610 min read

    Two mass revocation events in one week exposed a gap most teams don't know they have. SSL.com revoked 1.7M certificates over an MPIC flaw. Let's Encrypt ran a live drill on 3M certificates. Both revealed the same question: can your renewal pipeline respond in 24 hours?

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    The PKI Information Distribution Problem
    Industry Commentary

    The PKI Information Distribution Problem

    April 3, 20269 min read

    PKI doesn't have an information problem. It has a distribution problem. Every significant policy change gets documented somewhere — but nowhere that practitioners actually look. Here's why that's getting worse, not better.

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    4 March 15 Changes Flying Under the Radar
    Compliance

    4 March 15 Changes Flying Under the Radar

    March 11, 20268 min read

    Everyone's focused on 200-day certificates. Four other CA/B Forum requirements take effect the same day — DCV reuse, OV/EV validation windows, short-lived cert thresholds, and mandatory DNSSEC — and most teams aren't tracking any of them.

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    Key Ceremony Best Practices: What Your Script Should Include
    Governance

    Key Ceremony Best Practices: What Your Script Should Include

    February 25, 202610 min read

    A practitioner's guide to PKI key ceremony scripts — what to include, what auditors verify, and the mistakes that create findings. Includes HSM procedures, role assignments, and witness requirements.

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    DNS-PERSIST-01 Is Great. Your Threat Model Needs Updating.
    Compliance

    DNS-PERSIST-01 Is Great. Your Threat Model Needs Updating.

    February 19, 202610 min read

    Five security assumptions that change when certificate validation becomes persistent — and what to do about each one. A practitioner-level companion to our DNS-PERSIST-01 technical guide.

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    Your Internal CA Doesn't Have a CPS. Here's Why That's a Problem.
    Compliance

    Your Internal CA Doesn't Have a CPS. Here's Why That's a Problem.

    February 14, 20268 min read

    60% of organizations lack PKI governance documentation. If you're running Microsoft ADCS, EJBCA, or any private CA, you need a Certificate Practice Statement — and the RFC 3647 framework makes it easier than you think.

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    Your $250K Email Security Suite Just Got Beaten by a Hotmail Address
    Email Security

    Your $250K Email Security Suite Just Got Beaten by a Hotmail Address

    February 13, 202610 min read

    A company spends a quarter million on email security with 'Military-Grade AI,' then gets owned by a phishing email from microsft-suport-desk-real@hotmail.com. The PKI solutions to prevent this have existed for decades.

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