A project that aims to increase the use of encryption by giving away free SSL/TLS certificates has issued its first one, marking the start of its beta program. The project, called Let’s Encrypt, is ...

Landmark decision to reduce digital certificate lifespans aims to strengthen online security, promote automation in certificate management, and prepare for quantum challenges SCOTTSDALE, ...

Do you know what SSL protocols you expose to your users? Are your settings optimized for security? Have you properly deprecated older TLS certs? Here's what you need to know. Most of us take Secured ...

TLS/SSL certificates are more widely available on some sites than ransomware or zero days: One representative search of the five marketplaces uncovered 2943 mentions for "SSL", compared with only 531 ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AppViewX, a leader in automated machine identity management (MIM) and application infrastructure security, today announced the results of a research study conducted by ...

Quantum computing is coming, and one of the earliest signals of its impending arrival is the emergence of 47-day certificates. Frequent certificate renewals help CIOs improve their organization’s ...

Certificate-based authentication is a cryptographic technique that allows one computer to securely identify itself to another across a network connection, using a document called a public-key ...

A new method of covert channel data exchange has been uncovered. It uses a well-known and widely implemented public key certificates standard (X.509), which is a hallmark of both TLS and SSL IP ...

The adoption of devices for the internet of things will depend very much on their communication to the Internet being secure. There are many aspects to being able to secure connections between client ...

Stephen A. Thomas is chief architect for Wave7 Optics. He has been actively involved in TCP/IP standards development for nearly two decades, and has co-authored and contributed to numerous Internet ...