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 PKI Solutions is excited to announce a significant advancement in cryptographic security management: PKI Spotlight’s Multi-HSM Monitoring, the industry’s first, and ONLY, vendor-agnostic solution for Hardware Security Modules (HSMs). For the first time, organizations can gain unified, real-time visibility into both nCipher (Entrust) and Luna (Thales) HSMs, including on-premises and cloud-based deployments (Luna DPoD and nCipher HSM as a Service).

In an era where enterprises operate with increasingly complex and diverse cryptographic infrastructures, PKI Spotlight addresses a critical need—ensuring seamless monitoring, availability, and compliance for HSMs from multiple vendors. Previously, organizations had to rely on disparate, proprietary monitoring tools, resulting in operational silos and limited visibility. Now, with PKI Spotlight’s latest innovation, security teams can monitor HSM availability, configurations, and usage through a single, intuitive interface without needing to provide credentials for your HSMs.

Key Benefits of PKI Spotlight’s Multi-HSM Support:

• Real-Time HSM Monitoring: Track the operational status of nCipher and Luna HSMs instantly, receive immediate alerts for any failures, and proactively address performance issues.
• Configuration & Firmware Oversight: Maintain compliance by monitoring firmware versions and configuration settings and identifying inconsistencies that could pose security risks.
• Partition Utilization Insights – Optimize resource allocation by gaining deep visibility into partition usage to ensure efficient cryptographic operations.

Gartner recognizes PKI Spotlight as the only PKI posture management solution on the market. It continues to lead the way in enterprise security innovation. While some HSM vendors offer proprietary monitoring tools, PKI Spotlight is the only commercial solution to bridge the gap between monitoring multiple HSM vendors, delivering unparalleled visibility and control.

Organizations looking to enhance their HSM strategy can experience the power of PKI Spotlight firsthand. Request a demo today and discover how real-time monitoring and actionable insights can transform your cryptographic security operations.

PKI Solutions — a Public Key Infrastructure technology leader with practices covering PKI Design/Redesign and Implementation, PKI assessments, training, and support services — today introduced a new version of PKI Spotlight, a real-time monitoring and alerting system that provides live status, availability, configuration, and security of PKI environments (Microsoft PKI and others) and hardware security modules (HSMs). The latest release of PKI Spotlight has increased its award winning “Best Practices” alerting to more than 115. These Best Practice alerts are designed to aid organizations with operational resiliency, security posture management, threat detection, and refined PKI operational and configuration best practices.

Unfortunately for most organizations, their PKI was installed and then almost forgotten. In reality, a healthy PKI (like most security systems) needs constant review. PKI Spotlight maintains the security and integrity of PKIs with visibility into configurations that can impact identity and encryption systems in a manner that reduces an organization’s risk for business continuity and security threats.

The benefits of best practice alerts in PKI Spotlight’s latest release include:

• Heightened Security Preparedness: Administrators gain enhanced ability to identify and rectify potential security weaknesses in real-time. These alerts cover areas from cryptographic algorithm compliance, trust chain validation, security configuration settings, and emerging threats. Addressing these alerts quickly helps organizations bolster their security preparedness and reduce the risk of threats.
• Enhanced Compliance and Regulatory Adherence: Compliance with industry regulations and standards is critical for PKIs to enable organizations to strengthen their compliance posture. These alerts offer insights into compliance violations and highlight areas that require immediate attention and improvement. This helps organizations adhere to industry and company standards, safeguard sensitive data and meet regulatory compliance.
• Streamlined PKI Management Efficiency: Streamlined PKI management helps administrators prioritize their efforts based on the criticality of each alert for better resource allocation and efficient operations, which reduces administration tasks.
• Continuous Learning and Knowledge Enrichment: Continuous learning and knowledge enrichment among PKI administrators and security teams through regular alerts and implementing recommended practices fosters a culture of security awareness. Administrators gain valuable insights into emerging threats, industry best practices, and evolving compliance requirements. This empowers them to make informed decisions, proactively address vulnerabilities, and stay ahead of potential security risks.
• Removing the Unintended Consequences Risk: All too often, people who manage a PKI will perform a simple change which can have a cascading effect throughout the PKI. PKI Spotlight will send an alert that this change is in violation of a Best Practice and allow the company to make the correction quickly.

For more details, go to https://www.pkisolutions.com.

 PKI Solutions will host a PKI Insights Series Web Seminar to help IT security professionals avoid common mistakes prior to scheduled Penetration Testing and better secure important PKI system.  Mark B. Cooper, president and founder of PKI Solutions, and Nick Sirikulbut, director of business development will host this event on Thursday, February 22, 2024 at  11-11:30am MST.  The PKI Spotlight event will cover real world case studies to highlight common mistakes that lead to PKI failures and cover steps teams can take immediately to better manage their PKI environment.

To register for the PKI Insights Web Seminar, go to https://www.bigmarker.com/pkisolutions/PKI-Insights-Avoiding-Pen-Test-Pitfalls.