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Venafi Media Alert: What Google's Decision to Remove Trust from Symantec Certificates Will Mean for Certificate Authorities in 2018Last year, researchers affiliated with Google decided that Symantec, and their affiliated Certificate Authorities (CA (News - Alert)), had mis-issued thousands of transport layer security (TLS) certificates. As a result, Chrome researchers announced a formal plan to remove trust from Symantec (News - Alert)-issued certificates. According to Walter Goulet, product manager for cloud products at cyber security market leader Venafi, the tension between browsers and CAs will increase in 2018. "Concern about certificate issuance practices from browser companies is not a new phenomenon," said Goulet. "However, these concerns are now driving action from browser companies and this will combine with other industry changes in 2018. As a result, it's very likely that the tension between CAs and browsers will continue to escalate, which will increase the pressure on business models in the CA industry." Goulet believes the interdependency between browsers and CAs will be affected by three major market changes:
For more details, please visit: https://www.venafi.com/blog/cas-and-browsers-three-changes-expect-2018 About Venafi Venafi is the cyber security market leader in machine identity protection, securing machine-to-machine connections and communications. Venafi protects machine identity types by orchestrating cryptographic keys and digital certificates for SSL/TLS, IoT, mobile and SSH. Venafi provides global visibility of machine identities and the risks associated with them for the extended enterprise - on premises, mobile, virtual, cloud and IoT - at machine speed and scale. Venafi puts this intelligence into action with automated remediation that reduces the security and availability risks connected with weak or compromised machine identities while safeguarding the flow of information to trusted machines and preventing communication with machines that are not trusted. With 31 patents currently in its portfolio, Venafi delivers innovative solutions for the world's most demanding, security-conscious Global 2000 organizations. Venafi is backed by top-tier investors, including Foundation Capital, Intel Capital (News - Alert), Origin Partners, Pelion Venture Partners, QuestMark Partners, Mercato Partners and NextEquity. For more information, visit: www.venafi.com. View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180207005029/en/ |