Public Key Infrastructure(PKI): Invisible Architect of Digital Trust

This podcast discusses the critical concept of digital trust and its implementation within enterprises, highlighting the challenges organisations face in establishing and maintaining it. The 2024 State of Digital Trust Report by DigiCert, explores how enterprises are performing across various areas such as Enterprise IT, IoT & Connected Devices, Software, and eSignature trust, revealing that while digital trust is considered vital, maturity levels are generally low. It also identifies key challenges like lack of staff expertise, network complexity, and management support, while distinguishing between "leaders" and "laggards" in these efforts. Concurrently, it also provides an overview of how digital certificates work, focusing on server certificates used in secure web servers (HTTPS), which are fundamental to digital trust. A further discussion explains Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs), detailing their function in managing revoked certificates and mentioning Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) as a more efficient alternative for checking certificate validity.