AppViewX Certificate Management - Solution Brief

Public key infrastructure (PKI) has become standard for enterprises trying to secure data and authenticate machines on the move. X.509 certificates, such as TLS, are just one of the many PKI systems widely adopted by enterprises, all of which include both private and public keys. The public key, as the name suggests, is open to public data encryption, while the private keys are kept confidential for decryption purposes. This makes a private key the single most important asset of any infrastructure. When a private key is uncovered by malicious actors, valuable data is compromised through the impersonation of an enterprise’s servers. And unfortunately, many enterprises are still using faulty – and often non-compliant – manual key management processes that leave their most valuable data susceptible to theft.