Chapter 18 How do we keep it working as we grow? Planning and documentation

DOI: 10.1201/9781003360674-18

As has been shown, building a proper public key infrastructure (PKI) from scratch, or repairing one which is in a sorry state, is not a task for the faint-hearted. It requires understanding, planning and very careful execution. If properly undertaken, it will also have been very well documented and that is a factor which will pay dividends if, for various reasons, the PKI undergoes a significant increase in scale. The primary reasons for such an expansion in size may be as follows:

  1. A natural growth in parallel with the expansion of the organisation as a whole. This might occur in parallel with a step change in the scale of operations undertaken ...

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