S/MIME certificates indicate the authentic identity of the sender and enable encryption for message content and attachments - providing strong defenses against a variety of email-based attacks.  Nonetheless, adoption today is extremely small. Find out what the challenges to past adoption have been for this underutilized security technology and what the industry is doing to help enterprises secure their email today.

Root Causes 1-10: S/MIME Automated Deployment

Digital certificate industry veterans Tim Callan and Jason Soroko explore the issues surrounding digital identity, PKI, and cryptographic connections in today's dynamic and evolving computing world. Best practices in digital certificates are continually under pressure from technology trends, new laws and regulations, cryptographic advances, and the evolution of our computing architectures to be more virtual, agile, ubiquitous, and cloud-based. Jason and Tim (and the occasional guest subject matter expert) will help you stay current on developments in this essential technology platform and to understand the whys and wherefores of popular Public Key Infrastructures.