Root Causes: A PKI and Security Podcast

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Root Causes 207: Former Gartner Analyst David Mahdi Jumps on the Playing Field Feb 21, 2022

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Gartner analyst David Mahdi recently left the analyst space for Sectigo. In this episode he joins our hosts to explain the reasons for his optimism about digital trust, including NFTs, Web3, blockchain, PKI, and Zero Trust.

Root Causes 206: What Is Web3? Feb 13, 2022

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Web3 refers to the concept that online content can be attributed to specific known publishers, regardless of web site or online channel. In this episode we discuss the fundamentals of Web3, including self-signing protocols, authorization of content, blockchain, definitive authorship, consensus algorithms, and meat from space.

Root Causes 205: Anatomy of an Encrypted Peer-to-Peer Mesh Network Feb 09, 2022

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Secure online collaboration poses logistical and technical challenges under the best of circumstances. Now imagine you have no designated IT staff, no designated hardware, a small budget, and remote participants who are not deeply technical. In this episode Jason Soroko explains how he was able to quickly and easily create an encrypted communications mesh for use by him and his collaboration team.

Root Causes 204: PKI's Role in Passwordless Feb 02, 2022

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In previous episodes we have defined passwordless identity authentication. In this episode our hosts explain PKI's specific role in passwordless authentication, along the way clarifying the difference between password-masking and true passwordless technologies.

Root Causes 203: What Is a Credential Vault? Jan 31, 2022

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Credential vaults are necessary for secure and functional secrets management for automated systems like DevOps or Robotic Process Automation (RPA). This episode explains how credential vaults work and details their benefits.

Root Causes 202 : What Is Certificate Transparency? Jan 27, 2022

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Certificate Transparency (CT) is essential to monitoring the public SSL certificates that are issued. In this episode we explain what CT logs are, how they work, and the uses we can put them to.

Root Causes 201: What Are the Baseline Requirements? Jan 24, 2022

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The CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements (BR) are hugely influential in the world of public-trust certificates. In this episode we explain what the Baseline Requirements are, how they are created, and why they matter.

Root Causes 200: Why Not to Copy and Paste Commands from Web Pages Jan 19, 2022

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This episode describes newly revealed vulnerabilities where copying and pasting text from a web page can open the site visitor up to attack. Our hosts explain how this attack can occur and its potential consequences, along with how to defend yourself against this threat.

Root Causes 199: What Is Privileged Access Management? Jan 13, 2022

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In this episode we explain Privileged Access Management (PAM). We go on to explain some of the ways that networks using these techniques are still vulnerable to attack and what to do about it.

Root Causes 198: Deep Voice Fakes Jan 11, 2022

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We are all familiar with phishing in its various forms. Many people feel that they can protect themselves from fraud by verbally confirming apparent commands from senior executes. In this episode our hosts explore deep voice fakes, computer generated audio that successfully passes for the voice of a known associate, and the risks they pose.

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