Featured Contributor
Tim Callan
Chief Compliance Officer at Sectigo
As Chief Experience Officer, Tim Callan leads efforts to optimize the customer journey across all aspects of the business. Tim has more than 20 years of experience as a strategic marketing and product leader for successful B2B software and SaaS companies, with 15 years of experience in the SSL and PKI technology spaces.
Tim Callan has over 20 years of experience in the SSL and PKI technology spaces. Tim leads Sectigo's conformance with industry and regulatory requirements including browser root programs, WebTrust, CA/Browser Forum, and more. Tim is instrumental in driving initiatives to improve certificate agility and successful issuance. A founding member of the CA/Browser Forum and current vice-chair for one of its working groups, Tim is creator and co-host of Root Causes: A PKI and Security Podcast, the world’s most popular podcast dedicated to digital certificates. With 400+ episodes published, Tim is on the forefront of explaining trends that will be essential to the IT professionals, including shortening certificate lifespans and the coming change to post-quantum cryptography.
Recent Posts from Tim Callan
-
Webinars Upcoming
Q4 2024 Pulse Webinar
Join us for our quarterly Sectigo Pulse webinar, where we cover the latest product and compliance news and how these events might impact your business.
-
Podcasts Oct 14, 2024
Root Causes 432: Apple Floats New Short-lived Certificate Proposal
Apple recently floated a draft CABF ballot for commentary that steps down maximum term for SSL certificates to 45 days by 2027.
-
Podcasts Oct 11, 2024
Root Causes 431: New Mozilla Proposal to Combat Delayed Revocation
Deliberate delay of mandatory revocations has plagued the WebPKI in 2024. A new proposed policy from Mozilla stands to eliminate most of this behavior.
-
Podcasts Oct 08, 2024
Root Causes 429: ServiceNow Outage Due to Expired Root Certificate
A ServiceNow private CA root expired, creating outages across hundreds of enterprises. We explain what appears to have gone on.
-
Podcasts Oct 04, 2024
Root Causes 428: .MOBI Attack Puts WHOIS-based DCV into Question
White hat researchers managed to take over WHOIS for the .mobi TLD, foretelling the death of WHOIS as an email source for Domain Control Validation (DCV).
-
Podcasts Oct 02, 2024
Root Causes 427: Mapping CLM to NIST CSF 2.0
In this episode we map the contributions of Certificate Lifecycle Management into the new NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0.
-
Webinars Oct 01, 2024
How mature is your Certificate Lifecycle Management?
The surge in certificate usage has reached unprecedented levels, with industry standards for certificate lifespans progressively shrinking.
-
Podcasts Sep 30, 2024
Root Causes 426: Expired Certificate Takes Down Bank of England
A certificate expiration is now known to have created July's outage of Bank of England. Join us as we shake our heads in amazement yet again.
-
Podcasts Sep 27, 2024
Root Causes 425: PQC Requirements for Voting Systems
In honor of the upcoming US elections, we describe the six main requirements for a post-quantum voting system.