The challenge
A PKI must balance trust, operational continuity and lifecycle management. The architecture should support current use cases without becoming difficult to operate or expand.
Architecture focus
- Define trust hierarchy and CA roles
- Offline Root CA and Issuing CA model
- Enrollment and certificate lifecycle design
- AD CS and NDES/SCEP integration patterns
- Operational and recovery considerations
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