Neal Fuerst is a well-seasoned cyber-security consultant and business strategist with over 30 years of experience working in both the public and private sectors. He is frequently called on to lead discussions and seminars on topics including FedRAMP, CMMC, PKI Audit procedures, basic cryptography, and PKI technology. Neal has been a key contributor to many federal policies and procedures and has many years of experience teaching students about the technology and policy compliance. Neal serves as the Chairman of the PKIC Training and Certification Working Group.
Member of the PKI Consortium
Keyfactor
The machine and IoT identity platform for modern enterprises
Keyfactor develops products for PKI, digital signatures, cryptographic posture management, and cryptography
Leading Digital Trust in the AI & Quantum Era
Trust Infrastructure for AI & Machines
Keyfactor puts enterprises in control of the machine identities and cryptography that secure their data, machines, and AI - now and into the quantum era.
With a foundation in open-source security software and FIPS and Common Criteria certified products, Keyfactor helps security teams manage cryptography as critical infrastructure - simplifying PKI, automating certificate lifecycle management, and enabling crypto-agility at scale. Trusted by over 2,000 enterprises worldwide, Keyfactor secures every digital key and certificate across multi-cloud environments, DevOps pipelines, and embedded IoT and OT devices.
The Keyfactor Platform is for trust infrastructure, delivering visibility, automation, and orchestration across every key and certificate through four core capabilities:
- Visibility & Context — Continuously discover and monitor all cryptographic assets, identify risk in real time, and take action before it impacts your business
- Trust & Identity — Issue trusted identities for every machine, workload, and AI agent with a modern, quantum-ready PKI and secure code signing
- Lifecycle Automation — Orchestrate certificate lifecycles end-to-end to eliminate manual effort, prevent outages, and remediate cryptographic risk at scale
- Resilience & Agility — Transition to post-quantum cryptography, maintain continuous compliance, and keep your business running without interruption
Keyfactor operates globally with offices across the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
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- Apr 2021
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Representatives
Tomas Gustavsson has a MSc from KTH in Stockholm and has been researching and implementing PKI systems since 1994. He is the founder of and still a developer of the open source enterprise PKI project EJBCA and a contributor to numerous open source projects. As a co-founder of PrimeKey, Tomas is passionate about helping users worldwide find the best possible PKI and digital signature solutions. He has worked with customers deploying PKI solutions across the world during the last 20 years.
Sven Rajala is an award winning seasoned cyber-security consultant with extensive subject matter expertise on PKI, automation of PKI/Signing Solutions, and containers. He has over 19 years of experience working in both the private sector and with federal government departments and agencies. Sven is frequently called upon to participate in client discussions, presentations, and seminars on topics including PKI, EJBCA, and PKI Devsecops.
