Articles and Comments By Chris Hickman
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Identity Management Day Is On April 12 - Industry Experts Comments
April 13 , 2022 by Chris Hickman
Many organizations are just beginning to recognize the importance of having a strategy for managing...
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Let’s Encrypt Root Certificate Expiration – Expert Source
October 04 , 2021 by Chris Hickman
A root CA (certificate authority) does not specifically create a security problem, but rather a disr...
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Experts On Google Voice Outage
March 02 , 2021 by Chris Hickman
An outage happens when expired certificates fail to authenticate or establish secure communication t...
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Hacker Breached Florida Treatment Plant To Poison The Water Supply
February 12 , 2021 by Chris Hickman
This event reinforces the increasing need to authenticate not only users but the devices and machine...
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Experts Insight On Mimecast Breach
January 15 , 2021 by Chris Hickman
These attacks are not about FireEye, SolarWinds or Mimecast; the disturbing trend we are seeing is t...
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Cyber Security Predictions 2021: Experts' Responses
January 05 , 2021 by Chris Hickman
The continued rise of crypto-based exploits using code signing, SSH key and TLS certificates – Adm...
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SolarWinds Supply Chain Cyberattack - Experts Insight
December 21 , 2020 by Chris Hickman
Code signing is one component of the SolarWinds breach, but not because of a stolen certificate. At...
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Lessons Learned From PKI – Expert Insight
December 02 , 2020 by Chris Hickman
Deploying and running a PKI in-house can be a complex undertaking for even the most experienced IT a...
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Cyber Security Predictions 2021: Experts' Responses
November 26 , 2020 by Chris Hickman
New remote and distributed workforce use cases have forced leaders to expedite initiatives this year...
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Chinese Hacking Group APT41 Attacks 100+ Companies Across The Globe – Expert Source/Comments
September 18 , 2020 by Chris Hickman
All too often, code signing certificates are treated as an inconvenient requirement of building soft...
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Postbank Data Breach & the Importance Of Managing Cryptographic Keys – Expert Source
June 18 , 2020 by Chris Hickman
This event serves as a great reminder of the catastrophic consequences even a single compromised key...
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