As organizations move infrastructure to the cloud for cost savings and scalability, managing public key infrastructure becomes more complex. A key challenge is securing the root certificate authority offline while ensuring issuing authorities remain accessible online for certificate requests and issuance. Entrust addresses this by providing a secure environment to store root private keys offline and manage signing operations for online components. Protecting the root CA is critical, as any compromise undermines trust in all issued certificates. Unauthorized access could allow malicious certificate creation, threatening identification, authorization, and encryption, making strong root security essential.

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