15 Steps for Setting Up Your Own Certificate Authority

A private certificate authority can significantly increase the security of your internal network systems and data… but only if the CA is correctly set up. Here’s how to do it correctly.

Data from a 2022 survey indicates that more than half of organizations admit they don’t follow the key management best practice of storing their cryptographic keys on hardware security modules (HSMs).

But generating and storing cryptographic keys on an HSM is just one of many private CA cybersecurity best practices businesses must adhere to when securing their internal infrastructures and data using public key infrastructure (PKI). There’s more to it than that, and we’re here to break it down.

This article will walk you through the process of setting up a certificate authority (CA),  so you know how to do it right and don’t leave your organization open to disaster.

Let’s hash it out.

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