Risks of poor PKI management

This article outlines why effective Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) management is essential, detailing risks of weak practices—such as security breaches, outages, and compliance penalties—and prescribing best practices including clear policies, regular audits, protection of CAs and private keys (HSMs, rotation), robust certificate revocation (CRLs/OCSP), and full lifecycle automation. It advocates for managed, cloud-based PKI and certificate lifecycle management platforms (e.g., Sectigo Certificate Manager) to reduce human error, ensure compliance, and improve operational efficiency.