Digital Certificates Chaos Could Cost Companies $398 Million
“’When the printer in the executive office gets hacked, people can just watch the stream,’ says Jeff Hudson, CEO of Salt Lake City-based Enterprise Key and Certificate Management (EKCM) provider Venafi. ‘Those executives might not want to put sensitive documents in email because they feel email is too insecure, but they might as well just email it directly to the people who want to manipulate the stock price,’ Hudson says. ‘Nobody’s looking. The criminals will figure out how to get into the stream.’”