Webinar: Digital Trust Under Pressure: A CISO Perspective on PKI by PKI Solutions

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About This Webinar

PKI sits at the center of digital trust, but for today’s security leaders, it’s about much more than certificate management. Join PKI Solutions and cybersecurity executive John Shaffer as we explore how CISOs evaluate PKI through the lens of security, resilience, operational risk, and modernization. You’ll hear practical insights from highly regulated environments and learn what organizations are prioritizing today — and what they’re not.

What You’ll Learn

- Why PKI has become a board-level security risk
- The biggest operational and security challenges organizations face today
- How regulated industries are approaching modernization and resilience
- What organizations are actually doing to prepare for post-quantum cryptography

Mark B Cooper

Founder and CEO

Mark B. Cooper, Founder and CEO of PKI Solutions, has been known as “The PKI Guy” since his early days at Microsoft. He has deep knowledge and experience in all things Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). PKI Solutions LLC provides consulting, training — including online training — and Gartner-recognized software for PKI Posture Management at enterprises, many of them Fortune 500 companies. PKI Solutions has led hundreds of PKI training sessions, including private training sessions, across the country and around the world. Cooper is an avid proponent of the SHAKEN/STIR global standard to end robocalls, which uses authentication and PKI to verify callers’ identities. Prior to founding PKI Solutions, Cooper was a senior engineer at Microsoft, where he was a PKI and identity management subject matter expert who designed, implemented, and supported Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) environments for Microsoft’s largest customers.

You can reach Mark Cooper at hello@pkisolutions.com or follow him on X @ThePKIGuy

John Shaffer

Founder and CISO

John Shaffer is a seasoned CISO and CIO with more than 24 years of cybersecurity and technology leadership in global financial services. During his tenure at Greenhill & Co., John built and led security programs across 17 global locations, navigating complex regulatory requirements including SEC, FINRA, and FCA oversight while supporting cloud transformation, M&A, identity, risk, and resilience initiatives. Today, as Founder and CISO of Virconix, he advises organizations, executives, and boards on cybersecurity strategy, regulatory readiness, risk, and modernization. John holds CISSP and CISM certifications.