Wednesday, 26 November 2025

A few weeks ago, we were on a conference call with one of the premier analysts in this industry when the subject of private keys came up. We’ve always taken for granted that everyone in the industry understood that as part of certificate management we also manage the private keys associated with those certificates.  This analyst made it clear to us that we couldn’t make this assumption. Two reasons: 1) very few realize that managing certificates also requires the management of private keys, and 2) not many understand how critical the security of private keys is in protecting sensitive data.

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  • Keep an eye on the must-have requirements of Cloud-based network security

While some of the technical underpinnings that make up the Cloud’s ‘secret sauce’, are relatively recent innovations, the business case for managing critical IT functions as services – inside or outside the firewall  - is not a new concept.  At the end of the day, the Cloud is just another way to outsource IT functions, and the same fundamental concerns that exist with more mature outsourcing offerings need to be addressed – such as, how does an organization manage its security and compliance posture when critical systems and data are hosted or managed by a third party?

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