Supporting new applications It is often difficult for applications to use PKI. According to Ponemon Institute's 2019 PKI and IoT Trends Report, the two most significant challenges organizations will continue to face, with respect to enabling applications to use PKI, is the inability of an existing PKI to support new applications and the inability to change legacy applications. (See details in chart below.) Lack of clear ownership The same survey also found that the main PKI deployment challenge continues to be the lack of clear ownership of the PKI function. But in today’s PKI environment, there’s a need for proper management, especially when you consider: Infrastructure is distributed, with many certificates are issued to many people, places, and things We need to secure more “things” now than ever, and deal with shorter life certificates Certificates secure critical business applications, and outages can be costly and hard to diagnose For proper visibility into the certificates in your infrastructure, it helps to not only centralize PKI management within a specific department, but also with a software tool that provides a single pane of glass for certificate monitoring and reporting.