Digital Security FAQ

Certificate Management And Lifecycle Automation

• What is Certificate Lifecycle Management?

• How are Digital Certificates Managed?

• What are the Five Stages in the Certificate Lifecycle?

• What is a Certificate Manager?

• Who Manages TLS/SSL Certificates in an Organization?

• When Do You Need Certificate Management?

• What are the Different Types of Public Certificates That Need to be Managed?

• How Do You Identify Or Locate Public TLS/SSL Certificates Issued For Your Domains?

• How Do You Automate Certificate Management?

Certificate Transparency (CT) - What It Is And Why It Matters

• What is Certificate Transparency?

• How does Certificate Transparency Work?

• How do CAs Deliver CT Log Proofs?

• What is the Status of Certificate Transparency (CT) Support for Logs, Browsers and CAs?

Code Signing Trust

• What is Code Signing?

• What are Code Signing Certificates?

• What are the Different Types of Code Signing Certificates?

• What Role Does PKI Play in Code Signing?

• Can we Automate Code Signing?

• What are Code Signing Best Practices?

• What is Continuous Code Signing for CI/CD?

• What is Continuous Code Signing for DevSecOps?

• How do you Create and Enforce an Effective Code Signing Policy?

• How do you Purchase a Code Signing Certificate?

Certificates, PKI, And Regulatory Compliance

• What is Compliance?

• What is a Certificate Authority (CA)?

• What is the Accredited Standards Committee X9 (ASC X9) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)?

• What is the Certification Authority/Browser Forum (CA/B Forum)?

• What is the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)?

• What is the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)?

• What is the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE)?

Cryptography

• What is Cryptography or a Cryptographic Algorithm?

• What is Public Key Cryptography?

• What is SSL Cryptography?

• What are Public-Key Encryption Algorithms?

• What is RSA Cryptography?

• What is Elliptic Curve Cryptography?

• What are Pre-Shared Key Encryption Algorithms?

• How Does a Public/Private Key Pair Work?

• What is Post-Quantum Cryptography?

Domain Name Systems

• What is DNS?

• How does DNS lookup work?

• What are DNS records?

• What is my IP address?

• What's the difference between recursive and authoritative DNS?

• What is primary DNS?

• What is dynamic DNS?

• What is DNS propagation?

• What is TLD?

• What is TTL?

• What is a TXT record?