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Mike Hathaway

Mike Hathaway is Chief Product Officer at Ascertia, specialising in PKI and digital trust. He has more than 25 years of experience across professional services, training, pre-sales and product management, working with vendors, trust service providers and systems integrators. He has designed and delivered large-scale trust infrastructures for enterprises and contributed to national ID and ePassport programmes. Mike's focus is on making digital trust products easier to understand and use.

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Streamlined certificate management: Short lifecycles, centralised auto-enrolment, and the Triple-A advantage

Posted by Mike Hathaway on Oct 7, 2025 10:59:59 AM

Digital security and compliance are ever-changing. Successful organisations understand that certificate management isn’t a set-and-forget task. It’s a continuous, intelligent process that adapts to the threat horizon, regulatory shifts, and operational realities.

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Quantum readiness guide: Securing digital trust in the quantum era

Posted by Mike Hathaway on Sep 9, 2025 11:00:00 AM

As quantum computing rapidly advances from theory to practical reality, businesses and organisations must prepare now to safeguard digital trust.

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The ultimate guide to growing your business with SigningHub

Posted by Mike Hathaway on Aug 27, 2025 11:00:00 AM

Digital transformation is now a critical requirement for secure, agile operations. At the centre of this shift is trust, and the ability to verify and safeguard digital agreements in a seamless, scalable way.

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OCSP and the Web PKI: what’s changing

Posted by Mike Hathaway on Aug 20, 2025 1:16:24 PM

Public key infrastructure (PKI) underpins trust for the web, email, code, devices and more. Recently, browsers and some public CAs have changed how they handle revocation for public TLS certificates. That raises a common question: is OCSP finished?

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Mastering SigningHub: A guide to efficient digital signing

Posted by Mike Hathaway on Jul 16, 2025 11:13:41 AM

As businesses continue to shift to digital-first operations, having a reliable, secure, and compliant e-signature solution is essential. SigningHub is not just a tool to sign PDFs. It’s a robust digital signing platform designed for scalability, compliance, and productivity.

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Enhancing digital trust: An Ascertia product update

Posted by Mike Hathaway on Apr 8, 2025 9:46:34 AM

Ascertia provides a fully integrated suite of Digital Trust products that enable TSPs, government and enterprises to deliver digital identities and signatures that are compliant with standards and regulatory requirements.

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ADSS Server 8.3.9 release

Posted by Mike Hathaway on Mar 13, 2025 11:30:00 AM

Ascertia is delighted to announce the release of ADSS Server 8.3.9.

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Short life certificate and lifecycle management: Your guide

Posted by Mike Hathaway on Nov 13, 2024 11:30:00 AM

In 2020, Google enforced a maximum certificate lifetime of 398 days (13 months) for Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates. However, this time span leaves a lengthy window for an attacker to potentially compromise a certificate and exploit it.

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7 reasons why trust service providers should leverage qualified remote signing

Posted by Mike Hathaway on Nov 6, 2024 11:30:00 AM

Trust service providers (TSPs)must offer secure, scalable and compliant solutions to meet the rising demand for remote digital transactions. Qualified Remote Signing (QRS) has become a crucial tool in ensuring the integrity of digital signatures, especially for organisations bound by strict regulatory frameworks like eIDAS.

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ADSS Web RA: TLS certificate issuance and management

Posted by Mike Hathaway on Oct 30, 2024 11:00:00 AM

Digital certificates touch every aspect of our lives, both personal and business. They are the most secure and transparent way of delivering cryptographic security for information sent over corporate networks and the internet. The best part is that they remain highly secure and completely transparent to us—until they expire.

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