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The Role of Digital Certificates
Most of us have come across elusive terms like zero-trust, passwordless, and other trends in cyber security. However, these are generally end-goals that require several underlying technologies to work together. One of these underlying technologies is the digital certificate - including what powers the famous lock icon on browsers to indicate a secure and authentic connection.
A digital certificate used to secure your bank’s website lets you, the user, know that the website is actually the bank’s (and not an attempt at phishing your banking information, for example). It is also used to establish an encrypted connection between you and the bank’s servers, so that attackers can’t intercept and decipher your information as it travels through the internet.
For the more curious readers among us, digital certificates are one of the many elements of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). PKI is a cornerstone of internet security, and it turns out to be really useful to secure organizations’ internal networks and applications too. If you’d like to learn more about this technology, here’s a great article to get you started!
VivaPKI - Vivacity’s Certificate Authority
Vivacity offers PKI and digital certificate services through VivaPKI - our SaaS platform for Public Key Infrastructure. Our customers rely on this platform to deploy asymmetric cryptography to fit their needs, which may include securing intranet applications, authenticating machines in a network, securing SSH credentials, setting up passwordless authentication, and much more. PKI can be complex to manage, and often prohibitively expensive to consume - which is why we’ve built and tailored VivaPKI to fit the needs and budgets of the Small and Medium-sized Business (SMB) community.
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If digital certificates are of interest to you and your organization, we’d love the opportunity to earn your business. Please contact us here, and one of our experts will get back to you shortly!