PKI in a Virtualized World: Seamless, Simple, Secure and Straightforward with PrimeKey EJBCA Software Appliance and Thales Luna HSMs - Solution Brief

The Problem: Every day, businesses face unexpected security events and threats to their data. At the core of enterprise IT, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is an essential platform to protect identities, data and secure connections across the organization. At the heart of the PKI is a certificate authority (CA) that ensures the trustworthiness of all certificates within the PKI. Because the CAs private key is the anchor to the trustworthiness of all certificates within a PKI, one must ensure the CAs root key is well protected. A compromise of the root key means that the network of trust inherent within a stable PKI collapses, and the PKI can no longer be trusted.