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The Resurgence of PKI in Certificate Management, the IoT and DevOps

Published: 23 October 2018

Summary

Public-key infrastructure (PKI) and digital certificates are hard to manage. Organizations are also expanding the use of PKI within IoT and DevOps pipelines. Technical professionals need to transform the perception — and the deployment — of PKI to establish an automated management regime for PKI.

Included in Full Research

  • Certificate Management — Find, Control and Automate
  • DevOps — Integrate PKI Into the Development Pipeline
    • Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery
    • Microservices
    • Containers
    • Code Signing
  • The Internet of Things — Target the Heterogeneity of Devices
    • Usage of PKI Throughout an IoT Device Life Cycle
    • PKI Vendor Support for IoT
  • A PKI Strategy That Bends in the Right Ways
    • Fit for Purpose
    • Out of Sight
    • Efficiently Validated
  • Disruptors
  • Strengths
  • Weaknesses
  • Establish a Strict PKI Management Regime, and Use Certificate Management Tools
  • Divide and Conquer PKI
  • Prepare for the Cryptopocalypse
  • Don’t Expect Certificates and PKIs to Be Free
  • Choose the Right Level of Vetting for Your SSL/TLS Certificates
  • Don’t Rely on Let’s Encrypt to Solve All of Your PKI Needs
  • Give Preference to “Real” CAs in the DevOps Pipeline
  • Carefully Model IoT Identity Needs
  • Consider Microsoft, but Be Realistic
  • Deploy PKI, and Treat It as Foundational to Your IAM Infrastructure
  • PKI Usage Within Mobility
  • PKI Usage Within the IoT
    • Manufacturing
    • Introduction
    • Validation
    • Managing
    • Sunsetting
  • Modern Validation and CA Monitoring Technologies
  • Dissecting PKI Disruptors
    • Quantum Computers
    • SSL Everywhere, SSL/TLS and Let’s Encrypt
    • Blockchain and Decentralized PKI
    • The OAuth 2.0 Framework and Proof-of-Possession Mechanisms
    • FIDO Alliance
  • Traditional Use Cases for PKI
  • Deployment Options for PKI
  • PKI Vendors

Analysts:

Erik Wahlstrom,  Paul Rabinovich

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