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June 21, 2004

PKI Practices Are Maturing Says Study

PKI Practices Are Maturing Says Study

ComputerWire Staff
Some signs of improved security practices are to be found in the results of a latest survey of Public Key Infrastructure deployment across Europe.

More organizations say they are issuing certificates to business partners and slightly more than two-thirds of organizations polled for the study were found to be using separate signing and encryption keys, a 20% rise against the situation back in 2002.

The status report stems from an annual audit of sentiment towards PKI carried out by the European Electronic Messaging Association, a group that includes businesses like AIB Bank, Cargill and Unilever, government bodies such as the European Commission and the UK Ministry of Defence, and a number of IT vendors including HP, MessageLabs, Siemens, and Utimaco.

Management attention for PKI has increased, the study suggests, with the number of organizations viewing PKI as a strategic requirement increasing from 74% to 92% during 2003. Of those organizations upgrading their own Certification Authority, most expect to move to the use of an external trust contractor. CA technology helps in the deployment of a PKI that will scale by automating and centralizing the management of cryptographic keys and digital certificates.

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