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Articles by Tim Hollebeek
Why Open-Source Encryption and Automated Key Rotation Aren’t Enough Without Certificate Management
In today’s threat-rich, compliance-driven world, encryption is non-negotiable. But as organizations scale and adopt cloud-native architectures, the way they manage encryption — particularly how they issue, track and rotate certificates — has never been more critical. Many development teams and platform architects lean heavily on open-source encryption libraries and in-house automation scripts for key rotation.
Encryption is Your 'New' BFF (It Always Was; You Just Didn’t Know It)
Between the FBI warnings to use only encrypted messaging and the latest news that 3.3M email servers were found to be without TLS encryption, have we found ourselves in an encryption quagmire? If you are old enough to remember when the Macarena first hit the airwaves, you probably also recall a time when communication relied on landline telephones and handwritten letters.
2024 Security Predictions
Originally published by DigiCert on November 8, 2023. As 2023 draws to a close, it’s time once again to look back on the past year’s security developments and make some bold predictions about the future of technology, identity and digital trust. Artificial intelligence (AI) was all over the news in 2023, and 81% of participants in a recent survey expressed concerns about the security risks associated with ChatGPT and generative AI.
NIST Releases Quantum-safe Cryptography Standards: What Now?
NIST Releases Quantum-safe Cryptography Standards: What Happens Now? by Tim Hollebeek, Industry and Standards Technical Strategist, DigiCert NIST has released draft standards for quantum-safe algorithms for public comment, after which the final standards will be available early next year.
Keeping pace with evolving code signing baseline requirements
Maintaining code integrity has always been top of mind for today’s development-driven organizations. However, the recent SolarWinds breach was a stark reminder of the importance of stopping malicious tampering and maximizing trust. The attack was especially audacious because it took advantage of what is normally an industry best practice: regular software updates.
After a Year of Quantum Advances, the Time to Protect Is Now
This site is operated by a business or businesses owned by Informa PLC and all copyright resides with them.Informa PLC's registered office is 5 Howick Place, London SW1P 1WG. Registered in England and Wales. Number 8860726. Innovations in quantum computing mean enterprise and manufacturing organizations need to start planning now to defend against new types of cybersecurity threats.
Is Your Encryption Ready for Quantum Threats?
Answers to these five questions will help security teams defend against attackers in the post-quantum computing era. In October 2019, Google announced it had achieved "quantum supremacy" in a Forbes article entitled "Quantum Computing Poses An Existential Security Threat, But Not Today." The Google team had developed a quantum computer that could complete a computation in just over three minutes instead of the 10,000 years it would have taken on a traditional computer.
The view of quantum threats – from the front lines - JAXenter
Quantum computing might initially sound like a far-fetched futuristic idea, but companies such as Amazon, Google, and IBM are putting their weight behind it and preparations have begun. With quantum computing potentially within our reach, what will happen to our current security models and modern-day encryption? See what security experts are doing to prepare for quantum threats. The future is here. Or just about.
How long before quantum computers break encryption?
The verdict is in: quantum computing poses an existential threat to asymmetric cryptography algorithms like RSA and ECC that underpin practically all current Internet security. This comes straight from the National Academy of Science’s Committee on Technical Assessment of the Feasibility and Implications of Quantum Computing. The inevitable follow-up: OK, so how much time do we have before we’re living in a post-quantum world? The short answer is, nobody knows. That’s not for lack of trying.
Are Today’s Partners Deploying the Crypto-Agility Needed for Quantum Computing?
Ready or not, quantum computing is coming. Are your security systems ready? By Tim Hollebeek Quantum computing is poised to deliver a giant leap forward in processing power, quickly solving complex problems that today’s computers take ages to complete. A quantum computer’s power is its ability to generate and manipulate quantum bits, or qubits, rather than the ones and zeroes of today’s computers.
Start Preparing Now for the Post-Quantum Future
Quantum computing will break most of the encryption schemes on which we rely today. These five tips will help you get ready. Search on the phrase "quantum computing," and you'll find a furious debate. On the one hand, you'll read breathless articles predicting groundbreaking advances in artificial intelligence, genomics, economics, and pretty much every field under the sun. On the other, you'll find the naysayers: It's all hype.
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