Listen "What You Don't Know About Your Certificates Can Hurt You | Eric Mizell, Field CTO, Keyfactor"
Episode Synopsis
Eric Mizell, Field CTO and VP Field Engineering at Keyfactor, breaks down why digital certificates are the security blind spot most companies don't know they have. From his early days fixing Novell networks to helping enterprises manage millions of IoT identities, Eric shares war stories about expired certificates that couldn't send breach alerts, private keys stored in network folders with the same password, and how AI is intelligently helping threat actors make decisions on how to attack. 0:00 PKI hierarchies matter for enterprise security14:09 Expired code signing certificates are still risky17:53 Should you run your own CA or outsource it?25:08 The importance of knowing your "cryptographic posture"36:49 Death of passwords and the trust crisis in browsers45:05 AI-driven attacks in the cybersecurity arms race🔔 Follow Eric and John on:https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-mizell-8864977/https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncarse/🔥 Powered by SquareXDeployed as a lightweight extension, SquareX turns any browser, on any device, into a secure enterprise browser. Find out more about SquareX at https://hubs.la/Q03rPcbf0
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