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Your Legacy PKI May Just Be The Trojan Horse In Your Security Arsenal

Your Legacy PKI May Just Be The Trojan Horse In Your Security Arsenal

By Linda Ikechukwu

Organisations that still cling to their legacy Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) like Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services, struggle with inefficiency and security loopholes. If you're unsure of how to start migrating your legacy PKI, we can help you.

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Modernize Your Legacy PKI with Bring Your Own Root

By Linda Ikechukwu

You want the easy management of encryption and authentication that Smallstep provides - but you have legacy systems trusting old root certificates. Here's the great news - you can now do it all with bring your own root capabilities at Smallstep.

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Making PKI Easier: What you need to know about Smallstep's new UI

By Linda Ikechukwu

We are excited to announce that Smallstep is evolving into an end-to-end encryption platform. You can now manage the entire certificate lifecycle for everything within infrastructure, all from one place.

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Prevent phishing with end to end encryption

By Linda Ikechukwu

As social engineering and phishing attacks become more prevalent, it's clear that a shift away from legacy forms of authentication is necessary. Learn about alternative phishing-resistant authentication methods you can adopt to better protect your organization.

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Why passwords and OTPs suck

By Linda Ikechukwu

With phishing attacks on the rise, passwords are no longer a reliable method for granting infrastructure access or authenticating users. It is time to adopt authentication methods that don't rely on shared secrets.

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Manage, configure, and inspect all of your certificate authority provisioners in one place

By Linda Ikechukwu

'Provisioners' are crucial to how the Smallstep Platform works, and a faint understanding of what they are and do, is required to effectively use the Smallstep platform and open-source tools to issue and manage certificates.

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ACME EAB—What Is It, and How Do We Use It at Smallstep?

By Linda Ikechukwu

We've just added EAB to our ACME server. EAB adds more security and control to the process of automating certificate management actions for machines and services using the ACME protocol. Read on to find out what this means for you as a Smallstep user.

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5 Infrastructure Security Advancements You May Have Missed in 2022

By Linda Ikechukwu

Apple MDA, GitHub OIDC, systemd-creds, Passkeys, and Identity-Aware Proxies: Here's a look at some infrastructure security advancements that caught our attention in 2022.

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3 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Use Public CAs for Internal Infrastructures

By Linda Ikechukwu

Public web certificate authorities like Let's Encrypt were not designed to support internal use cases. What you need is a private certificate authority.

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The deal with Registration Authorities, and what they do for you with Smallstep Certificate Manager

By Linda Ikechukwu

We’ve launched an ACME Registration Authority quickstart guide to help you easily automate certificate issuance and renewal to endpoints within walled-off networks. Read up on Registration Authorities and why may need them.

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SSH vs. X.509 Certificates

By Linda Ikechukwu

Although SSH certificates are the most secure way to regulate SSH access, they are underutilised. They're also frequently confused with X.509 (aka TLS) certificates. This article explains what SSH certificates are, why you should be using them, and how they differ from their more popular X.509 counterparts.

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