Digital Certificates Help Create an Accountability-Based Environment
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Another measure to establish an accountability-based environment is to assign a unique digital certificate to the affiant’s identity. The digital certificate is used with the affiant’s interaction with the organization’s network. This ensures that transactions within the network can be traced back to the individual and the digital certificate provides the ability to digitally sign documents.
Why is this important? News reports about digital hackers getting into organizations’ networks and impersonating employees to request fraudulent payments to a fictitious company are happening more frequently. Beyond that, nefarious hackers impersonating high-level employee(s) can gain access to the organization’s sensitive data and cause significant unrecoverable damage to the organization’s operations. The Canadian telecom behemoth, Nortel Networks, suffered such a breach which ended in their bankruptcy. See Don’t Get Norteled, https://authenticity.store/collections/books for a detailed account of the events that led up to the collapse of this organization.
So why are digital certificates owned by an affiant important for an accountability-based environment? Well specifically here are some of the important reasons:
- Authentication: Identity attestation verifies the identity of the affiant before granting access to sensitive information or resources
- Secure Communication and Integrity Authentication: Documents that are signed with digital certificates ensure that nothing has changed from when the author created it.
- Non-repudiation: Digital certificates provide non-repudiation, meaning that the sender cannot deny sending a message or performing a transaction.
- Protection Against Phishing: Identity attestation and digital certificates help protect against phishing attacks by verifying the identity of the sender and ensuring that communications are secure and trustworthy.
- Compliance: The use of identity attestation with digital certificates complies with security and privacy regulations
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CAO’s approach to helping organizations achieve an accountability-based environment is built upon:
- Attestation sessions to establish the identity of the affiant
- Scoring the results of the session to establish measurable reliability of the affiant’s identity
- Assing a unique digital certificate to the affiant allows for creating digitally signed documents that are protected from being altered.
These measures help build trust with users and business customers, safeguard sensitive information, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
Would you like to discuss further how CAO can help bring an accountability-based environment to your organization?