Your certificates expire quietly. The consequences are not quiet.
PKI is the foundation of certificate-based authentication, email signing, code signing, and secure communication. When it works, nobody notices. When it breaks, the consequences range from locked-out users to full system outages.
What we do alongside every PKI deployment.
PKI architecture and design
We design the right PKI architecture for your organization: on-premises CA, cloud-hosted PKI service, or hybrid model depending on your data sovereignty requirements and operational capacity.
Certificate lifecycle management
We deploy the management tools that handle certificate issuance, renewal, revocation, and reporting, removing the operational burden from your IT team without reducing security.
Smart card and security key deployment
We manage the full lifecycle of hardware tokens: issuance, PIN management, replacement, and revocation at scale. We have done this many times across complex enterprise environments.
YubiKey and Pointsharp integration
As a distributor for both Yubico and Pointsharp, we are uniquely placed to deploy YubiKey hardware with Pointsharp PKI lifecycle management as a single coherent solution. No need to coordinate two separate vendors.
Legacy system integration
We extend PKI-based authentication to on-premises and legacy applications that cloud-only PKI services cannot reach, including older line-of-business systems and VDI environments.
Compliance mapping
We map your PKI controls to the authentication and cryptography requirements of NCA, NESA, SAMA, FIPS 140-2, and ISO 27001.
Related vendors
Pointsharp
Compliance frameworks we help map to:
Ready to get your PKI under control?
Talk to our team. We will assess your certificate environment and design a sustainable management approach for your organization.
Frequently Asked Questions
Public key infrastructure is the system of hardware, software, policies and procedures that issues and manages digital certificates. PKI secures data, user and device identities, verifies that data has not been altered, and underpins the highest levels of identity assurance.
A PKI has three core components. The Certificate Authority (CA) issues and signs certificates and is trusted by all other entities. The Registration Authority (RA) verifies certificate owners before issuance. The Validation Authority (VA) confirms a certificate is still valid and not revoked.
PKI establishes verifiable trust internally and externally, enabling secure data transfer, correct authorisation and identity security at scale. Across MEA it is most often required in government, banking and critical infrastructure, where regulation mandates certificate-based assurance rather than passwords or tokens alone.
The Kernel runs five stages. Assessment defines certificate policy and whether a hardware security module is needed. Design develops processes, policies and documentation. Testing validates every required certificate across all platforms and devices. Deployment proceeds in controlled batches. Support closes remaining framework gaps.
Whether an HSM is required depends on assurance level and regulatory obligation. An HSM protects private keys in tamper-resistant hardware and is typically mandated for root and issuing certificate authorities in government and financial services. The Kernel assesses this first rather than assuming it.
The Kernel distributes Pointsharp for certificate lifecycle management, smart card deployment and integrated MFA. Yubico supplies the hardware credential layer for certificate-based authentication, and EgoMind handles YubiKey lifecycle at scale. PKI deployments typically combine all three rather than relying on one product.
