Digital trust is the foundational infrastructure that binds together the Internet today

Anant Deshpande
Regional Vice President, India & ASEAN,
DigiCert

“Customers today are looking to drive resilience and agility, and digital trust is foundational to driving this. It is the foundation to securing the connected world and binds together the Internet today. There is no internet, there is no digitization, there is no digital transformation without digital trust. DigiCert is the global leader in digital trust. We do PKI, which is public or private key infrastructure, and DNS. So if you are trying to access a bank website, DNS is what helps you to go to that website that you are trying to get to. It helps you to get there. PKI essentially validates that that address is a correct one and establishes the secure communication channel. So PKI and DNS are basically the two foundational elements of the internet, or rather the air and water of the internet. Everything other than that is management and protocol. DigiCert is the only player in this space that does both PKI and DNS. We know that the attack surface is expanding and we also understand that, irrespective of the industry our customers are in, there are a lot of regulations that need to be complied with. So we keep that in mind as well. With the rise of automation, attackers are leveraging highly sophisticated automated techniques. Our response can no longer be manual—humans alone cannot keep pace with machines. We must counter automation with automation.

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