New report released – Centralized Trust for Decentralized Uses: Revisiting Private Certificate Authorities

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce the availability of a new sponsored report from S&P Global Market Intelligence 451 Research, Centralized Trust for Decentralized Uses: Revisiting Private Certificate Authorities. We heard from customers actively seeking centralized management solutions for multi-cloud environments and worked with 451 Research, a technology research solution that provides a holistic view of opportunities and risks across the enterprise technology landscape, to dive into this topic.

In the report, 451 Research highlights the need for centralized trust as organizations build applications across multiple cloud providers, local infrastructure, and distributed hosting environments. For security practitioners familiar with certificate authorities (CAs), this report looks at some of the wider business implications of using cryptographic certificates to establish trust in highly decentralized and dynamic environments.

451 Research explains how decentralized architectures, including technologies such as Kubernetes, service meshes, and Internet of Things (IoT) networks, are fueling the need to modernize the legacy approach to CAs. The growing adoption of cloud native solutions from a multitude of vendors leads to a greater decentralization of applications. According to the survey Voice of the Enterprise: DevOps, Developer Experience 2023, 59% of respondent companies have architected more than 50% of their applications with cloud-native technologies.

Organizations and developers can use the report to consider the following:

• Security and trust models, including zero-trust principles so that every component authenticates every other component with a bidirectional motion, even within private networks.
• Ways to improve security. Within Kubernetes, for example, private CAs generate certificates for authentication and TLS encryption rather than relying on default Kubernetes self-signed CAs.
• Automation of the renewal of short-lived certificates for devices and services to help reduce the risks to security and availability.
• Benefits of cloud-native integrations, which can lead to performance efficiencies and cost optimization, and accelerate digital transformation.

For more information, read the full report Centralized Trust for Decentralized Uses: Revisiting Private Certificate Authorities. You can also learn more about how to create private certificates to identify resources and protect data with AWS Private Certificate Authority.

 
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