Compliance & Audibility
Compliance & Audibility
Digital certificates are part of security-critical processes in many organizations: registration with systems, machine communication, email encryption, or the creation of digital signatures.
This automatically makes public-key infrastructures subject to review by auditors and regulators.
The challenge rarely lies in the cryptography itself – but in the processes and traceability:
- Who was allowed to issue a certificate and when?
- How is the private key protected?
- How quickly is a compromised certificate revoked?
- And are these processes documented, reproducible, and tested?
We develop PKI solutions in such a way that they are not only technically safe, but can also be operated in an auditable manner – comprehensible, documented and regulatory robust.
Our approach
We do not view compliance as a downstream documentation task, but as an integral part of the architecture.
We define it as early as the design stage:
- Role and authorization concepts
- Registration and identification processes
- Four-eyes principle in critical operations
- Key generation and storage
- Revocation and emergency processes
- Logging and traceability
- Backup, recovery, and incident processes
Technik, Betrieb und Dokumentation entstehen dadurch konsistent — nicht nachträglich.
How PKI Experts supports you
01
Requirements analysis
• regulatory requirements
• Risk classes and protection needs
• organizational responsibilities
02
Architectural mapping
• Matching the PKI architecture with security goals
• Definition of certificate classes and assurance levels
• Derivation of practical processes
03
Document creation
• Auditable CP according to best practice structure
• Consistent CPS with real-world processes
• clear separation between policy and operations
04
Audit preparation
• Gap analysis
• Review workshops with security and operations
• Support with auditor inquiries
Ergebnis
Sie erhalten keine generische Vorlage, sondern:
- understandable governance documents
- technically feasible processes
- auditable evidence
- clear responsibilities
This ensures that your PKI is not only operated safely, but also provable trustworthy.