PKI Conference 2022 (24.11.2022)
Roundtable: Evolving PKI for Today’s IT Security Demands - Best Practices from PKI Leaders
Professionals from Axidian, Keyfactor, Cryptovision(an Atos company), RNtrust, Secunet and X Infotech gathered to share their expertise on deployment and PKI management, exchange opinions on evolution of PKI and CMS technologies and discuss key trends in this field in 2022.
- Difference between Certificate Management System (CMS) and a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
- An all-in-one offline root CA solution
- PKI issuance and management: hybrid deployment models
- Integrating electronic signatures across devices
- Cloud EDS on any phone up to feature phones
Expert Session: Managed CMS and PKIaaS
Dr. Benjamin Herdeanu, Cyber Security Consultant at Secunet, and his co-host Bjorn Jansen, Senior Sales Manager at Secunet, shared practical challenges and solutions of CMS and PKI. Technical planning of PKI is crucial, but the conceptional part such as defining policies, roles and procedures goes along with it. One of the common mistakes most companies face is underestimating the importance of policies, roles and procedures as they define the level of trust you can have in the PKI system. During Secunet's Expert Session Benjamin Herdeanu, Cyber Security Consultant at Secunet, answered questions about planning the process of migration from CA and ways of tracking the information in revocation certificates.
Expert Session: RNTrust Horizon: a full-featured CLM, with unique capabilities such as enabling easy S/MIME encryption in Office 365
Olivier Ruff, CTO of RNTrust, presented Horizon: a full-featured CLM, with unique capabilities such as enabling easy S/MIME encryption in Office 365". Certificates are everywhere, and their management is becoming more and more complex. Hybrid deployments linked to cloud adoption or migration are bringing more and more complexity to this tricky subject. Horizon Certificate Lifecycle Management enables smooth and simplified operation. Horizon also allows advanced features such as S/MIME encryption in Office 365. Focused on ease of use while not compromising security, Horizon helps customers to reduce their TCO.
Expert Session: Сontainers and container signing, enforcing that containers running in your Kubernetes cluster are signed by a trusted CA
Tomas Gustavsson, CTO at Keyfactor, and Sven Rajala, Subject Matter Expert at Keyfactor, showed how to enforce that containers running in Kubernetes are signed by a trusted CA’. Within 20 minutes they showed how easy the deployment of EJBCA and SignServer can be with Helm Charts and how to sign containers with Cosign, demonstrating a solution that is ready to run on Kubernetes.
Expert Session: Breaking PKI silos with Certificate Life Management
Axel Sandot, Product & Business Manager at Atos, talked about the ways CLM can accelerate operations within any organization. During his presentation he gave us a map view of PKI tools and business cases that PKI can cover. Axel presented Certificate Life Management ability to solve different business issues in the past, present and future.
Expert Session: What’s new in access control? - Bio Smart Card Demo
Bio Access Control Card brings benefits for both - physical and logical access. During his Expert Session Mohamed Ghattas, Software Delivery Manager at TrustSEC, elaborated on why Biometric Authentication is the most efficient method and presented the FIDO-2 solution as an example.
