With more and more organizations moving to online hosted servers, you will want to make sure you use public key cryptography. With this type of cryptography, you can use a certificate authority to generate digital certificates. You can distribute digital certificates to your employees, who need access to your online servers. When they log into the online server, their digital certificate is authenticated against the digital certificate contained on the online server.
Public Key Cryptography Can Prevent Unauthorized Access
Digital certificates are an essential part of public key cryptography. This type of cryptography uses a pair of keys which must match in order to decrypt encrypted data or to gain access to resources requiring authentication. Without digital certificates in use, anyone can access any of your online resources and information. Even if you require a user name and password to gain access, without a certificate, it makes it easy for hackers to gain unauthorized access.