Fragmented PKI. Hidden Certificates. A Healthcare Roadmap Built for Scale
Customer Profile
A Minnesota-based healthcare organization with 7,000+ professionals, serving millions across nations with home-based pharmacy services. The organization has operated for decades in pharmacy, treatment development, and disease research, with infrastructure spanning on-premises and cloud environments.
Industry
Healthcare, Pharmacy & Treatment Services
Engagement Type
PKI Assessment & Remediation Roadmap
At a Glance Outcome
7,000+
Professionals secured under a standardized PKI frameworkNIST & FIPS
140-2/3 standards driving assessment and remediationHSM
Root and Issuing CA keys moved to hardware-secured storageSingle Pane
Centralized certificate inventory across hybrid environmentsThe Enterprise
Challenges
The organization's PKI had grown organically to meet immediate security needs, but lacked a structured approach, formal governance, or centralized oversight. What started functional had become a patchwork that couldn't scale or be audited, and blind spots were accumulating across its hybrid environment.
No formal governance, CRL process, or backup procedures
Manual lifecycle management for thousands of certificates
Private keys stored in software without strong access controls
The organization’s PKI environment had evolved to meet immediate security requirements, but without a compliance-focused strategy or centralized oversight, it left critical gaps that could lead to costly penalties.
Encryption Consulting
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Our Offered
Solutions
The engagement followed a phased approach: policy and standards review, stakeholder workshops, gap analysis against a custom PKI framework aligned with NIST 2.0 and FIPS 140-2/3, and a remediation roadmap for governance, automation, visibility, and key protection.
Capability 01
Assessment, Gap Analysis & Use Case Definition
Capability 02
Governance, Policy & Multi-CA Flexibility
Capability 03
Certificate Lifecycle Automation & Alerting
Capability 04
Centralized Inventory & Visibility
The result was a clear remediation roadmap transforming a fragmented, manually managed PKI into a governed, automated, and visible certificate management framework aligned with industry standards and built to scale.
Encryption Consulting
Engagement Summary · Encryption Consulting · PKI Services
The Overall
Business Outcome
The PKI assessment gave the organization a clear path from fragmented, manual PKI operations to a centralized, automated certificate management framework built for long-term security and scalability.
Stronger security and key protection
Visibility and standardized operations
Foundation for future growth
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