PKI Risk Assessment
Do you really understand the operational risk and cost of your PKI?
What this assessment covers
Public Key Infrastructure underpins authentication, encryption, and trust across your environment. As PKI grows, hidden complexity often turns into operational risk, outages, and rising cost.
This short assessment helps security and infrastructure teams understand where PKI risk may be accumulating and whether it is worth a deeper review.
In under 3 minutes, you will get insight into:
- PKI sprawl and ownership complexity
- Manual effort and cross-team coordination
- Integration fragility and operational drag
- Where risk typically turns into hidden cost
Your PKI appears well controlled
Your responses suggest PKI is largely automated, centrally operated, and creating limited operational drag today.
What this typically indicates
- Limited CA sprawl with clear ownership
- Consistent operating models and reuse
- Predictable renewal and maintenance effort
- Stable integrations across environments
Why this still matters
Even well-controlled PKI environments tend to accumulate exceptions over time as platforms, teams, and applications change.
Learnings to take back to your team
Review PKI coverage and operating assumptions to confirm there are no emerging gaps or exception paths.
What to expect next
A CyberArk specialist is reviewing your responses and will be in touch shortly to walk through your full results, including a comprehensive view of PKI risk, operational burden, and cost exposure across your environment.
Early PKI risk detected
Your PKI is working today, but growing complexity is increasing operational effort and exposure.
What this typically indicates
- Partial automation or inconsistent reuse
- Mixed ownership across teams or environments
- Manual review, patching, or audit preparation
- Increasing integration and coordination effort
Why this matters
As certificate volumes grow and environments change, these gaps commonly lead to outages, audit disruption, and rising operational cost.
Learnings to take back to your team
Validate where PKI effort and risk are accumulating and determine whether simplification or automation would meaningfully reduce exposure.
What to expect next
A CyberArk specialist is reviewing your responses and will be in touch shortly to walk through your full results, including a comprehensive view of PKI risk, operational burden, and cost exposure across your environment.
High PKI operational risk detected
Your responses indicate PKI sprawl, manual processes, and cross-team dependencies, conditions that commonly lead to outages, audit disruption, and escalating cost.
What this typically indicates
- Multiple or unclear CA ownership models
- Significant manual renewal or remediation work
- Fragmented operating procedures
- Ongoing coordination across security, infrastructure, and application teams
Why this matters
In environments like this, PKI cost rarely appears as a single problem. It accumulates through staff time, incident response, audit preparation, and repeated remediation.
Learnings to take back to your team
Establish a clear baseline of PKI risk and operational cost to determine where action would have the greatest impact.
What to expect next
A CyberArk specialist is reviewing your responses and will be in touch shortly to walk through your full results, including a comprehensive view of PKI risk, operational burden, and cost exposure across your environment.
