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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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Defining trust in server signing – How Ascertia leads with EN 419 241-2 and EN 419 221-5

Posted by Mike Hathaway on Nov 25, 2025 10:59:59 AM

Digital signatures are now central to how organisations and individuals operate. They underpin critical processes in government, finance, healthcare, and many other sectors, ensuring that contracts, approvals, and transactions can move forward securely and with confidence.

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PKI & Ascertia: Building the Foundations of Digital Trust

Posted by Mike Hathaway on Nov 11, 2025 10:59:59 AM

From its cryptographic roots in the 1970s to today’s cloud-first, hyper-connected digital economy, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) has quietly evolved into the invisible trust fabric of our lives. It secures identities, transactions, and communications in ways that most people never see, but rely on every single day.

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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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