Mani Sri Kumar

Crypto-agility requires knowing where RSA, ECC, SHA-1, and other algorithms are deployed across your infrastructure. Most organizations have zero visibility.

Apple is pushing 45-day maximum certificate lifespans in Safari and iOS. Enterprise teams running manual renewal processes face a fundamental operational shift.

Everyone discusses PQC algorithms. Nobody has mapped where current cryptography is deployed. You cannot migrate what you cannot find. Start with inventory.

Shorter lifespans, more microservices, hybrid cloud sprawl, same team sizes. The math does not work. Current processes will break.

AD CS auto-enrollment handles certificate issuance and renewal — but it doesn't prevent outages. Here's the critical gap between issued and deployed that most IT teams miss.

Auto-enrollment issues and renews certificates. But your team is still getting woken up at 2 AM. The gap between issuance and deployment is where outages live.

How many certificates do you have? When do they expire? Who owns them? If you cannot answer all three, you have a problem.

Venafi costs 100K+ per year for Fortune 500. Mid-market teams need visibility and alerting, not enterprise complexity.

Not every organization needs a CLM platform. An honest framework for deciding when scripts work, when they break, and when you need to invest.

An ISO 27001 auditor asked for the certificate inventory. The team handed over 400 entries. Discovery found 3,200. Finding issued.