Which Is One of the Least Understood Areas of Cybersecurity, But One of the Most Important?

Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
8 min readDec 18, 2023

Well, one of the contenders for an answer to this question is digital certificates and PKI (Public Key Infrastructure). Ask a cybersecurity professional about what they are and how they are used, and you might not get a detailed answer. But, they are fundamentally important to the security and trust of many systems and are used in…

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.