Posts by Mike Cooper
Revocent Founder Mike Cooper Talks About CertAccord’s Origin
Revocent Founder Mike Cooper was a special guest on The PKI Guy’s Office Hours where he discussed how our CertAccord Enterprise product was thought up. We use the term “special” because Mike doesn’t appear in the show until about 35min in. Saving the best for last? 🙂 View Office Hours Talk
Read MoreMoving past the madness of manually updated X.509 certificates
Many organizations rely on Microsoft ADCS for their PKI, but often use manual processes to provide service to all their platforms. Read more about this “madness” in our guest blog post on Help Net Security.
Read MoreOvercoming the Challenge of Shorter Certificate Lifespans
In August 2019, Google introduced CA/Browser (CA/B) Forum Ballot SC22 to reduce Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificate validity periods to one year. After much discussion and thousands of comments — mostly in opposition — the ballot failed and certificate maximum lifetimes remained at two years. Or so we thought. Even though shorter certificates enhance ecosystem…
Read MoreJoin our Tech Talk with Futurex – Learn how to unify certificate management
With a combination of Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) and Revocent CertAccord Enterprise you can automate certificate provisioning and renewal across your entire network. Now in a Tech Talk on Wednesday Sept. 16 you can learn how to take this a step further by taking advantage of a FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated platform…
Read MoreVideo: CertAccord Enterprise Management Console Demo v6.0
CertAccord Enterprise Management Console Demo v6.0 This demonstration covers the CertAccord Enterprise Management Console. CertAccord Enterprise allows you to quickly and easily create X.509 digital certificates on Linux, Mac, Unix, and Windows from Microsoft ADCS. This fully automated solution allows you to create managed certificates in seconds with automatic renewals! There’s no web forms, no…
Read MoreCertAccord™ Enterprise 6.0
CertAccord™ Enterprise 6.0 Features Modernized Management Console UI With the release of CertAccord™ Enterprise 6.0 from Revocent, managing certificates and policies, registering devices or changing settings just became easier and more intuitive via the browser-based CertAccord Management Console. The latest release, available now for download by registered customers, features an extensively revamped and updated Management…
Read MoreCrypto-agility is critical to your company’s security
To achieve long-term data protection in today’s fast-changing and uncertain world, companies need the ability to respond quickly to unforeseen events. Threats like quantum computing are becoming reality while cryptographic algorithms are subject to decay or compromise. Without the ability to identify, manage and replace vulnerable keys and certificates quickly and easily – in other words…
Read MoreHere’s how CertAccord Enterprise helped solve the expiring certificate problem for a power company
Power utilities can’t afford outages – and certainly not from expired certificates. Trying to remember where all your non-Microsoft certificates are located and when they are about to expire can be a daunting task. To solve this problem, one of the nation’s top 5 largest power utilities recently selected Revocent’s CertAccord Enterprise to automate its…
Read MoreCertAccord Enterprise 5.0 Provides More Customer Requested Features
CertAccord Enterprise 5.0 Provides More Customer Request Features CertAccord Enterprise 5.0 is now available from Revocent. This release delivers new customer requested features such as the ability to customize X.509 digital certificate subject and subject alternative names, custom Certificate Purposes, and many other improvements. Customers have been asking for more control over how certificate subjects…
Read MoreHow to Detect Expiring Certificates
How to Detect Expiring Certificates Elephants and Other Hi-Tech Methods All X.509 digital certificates expire. It’s only a question of time. If you follow best practices then your end point certificates expire in two years or less. Once a certificate is expired it is considered invalid and likely will cause some kind of service outage. …
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