Vendor from the SecTec portfolio
Entrust
Entrust provides the Cryptographic Security Platform, nShield HSM, private/managed PKI, certificate lifecycle management, digital signing, identity and access solutions, and cryptographic data security.
Vendor Focus
Entrust helps organizations manage trusted identities, certificate processes, digital signing, cryptographic keys, secrets, and certificates in environments with strong trust, compliance, and post-quantum readiness requirements.
After the sale of the public certificate business, the relevant portfolio includes Cryptographic Security Platform, PKI as a Service, Managed PKI, certificate lifecycle management, nShield HSM, key and secrets management, digital signing, and identity/access solutions.
Solutions and Products
Cryptographic Security Platform
Platform for visibility and control over cryptographic assets, keys, secrets, and certificates with audit, compliance, and quantum-readiness focus.
PKI as a Service / Managed PKI / CLM
Management of private certificate authorities, certificates, certificate lifecycle, and internal trust models.
nShield HSM / nShield as a Service
Hardware and cloud security modules for protecting cryptographic keys and sensitive cryptographic operations.
Key and Secrets Management
Centralized management of keys, secrets, policies, rotation, and auditable cryptographic processes.
Identity and Access Management
MFA, passwordless, access management, and strong authentication for users and applications.
Digital Signing and Issuance
Digital signing, issuance processes, and identity verification for trusted digital interactions.
Typical Use Cases
- the organization needs HSM, internal PKI, or certificate lifecycle management
- the organization needs auditable lifecycle management for certificates, keys, and digital signatures
- the customer is addressing identity-centric security, MFA, signing, and cryptographic readiness
Attack coverage and defensive context
MITRE ATT&CK® Enterprise version 19.1 is used as a reference model. The mapping is a SecTec expert interpretation and does not imply endorsement by MITRE.
Practical attack scenarios
- Phishing and identity abuseAn adversary manipulates a user, obtains credentials, or abuses a trusted account to gain access to the environment.
- Credential theftAn adversary obtains passwords, tokens, sessions, or other authentication material and uses it to expand access.
- Cloud and SaaS compromiseAn adversary abuses cloud identities, permissions, configurations, or application integrations to access services and data.
- Lateral movement inside the networkAfter initial access, an adversary discovers systems, accounts, and services and moves toward higher-value assets.
- Data exfiltration and leakageAn adversary searches for, collects, and transfers sensitive data from endpoints, cloud services, email, or internal repositories.
- Ransomware and availability impactAn adversary encrypts or manipulates data, stops services, inhibits recovery, and creates operational impact.
- Supply chain and trusted accessAn adversary abuses a supplier, software dependency, external access path, or trusted relationship to bypass normal controls.
- Business Email Compromise and mailbox takeoverAn adversary takes over or impersonates a trusted email identity and abuses communications for fraud, payment diversion, data collection, or further phishing.
- Privilege escalation and persistenceAn adversary expands privileges, creates or modifies accounts and policies, and establishes repeatable access to systems, identities, or cloud environments.
- Defense evasion and control impairmentAn adversary hides activity, removes evidence, disguises code, or weakens security tools, encryption, firewalls, and recovery mechanisms.
- Insider threat and authorized access abuseAn insider or an adversary with a valid account abuses legitimate permissions to discover, copy, manipulate, or transfer sensitive data.
- BOLA – Broken Object Level AuthorizationAn adversary changes an object identifier in an API request and gains access to data or operations belonging to another user, account, or tenant.
- BFLA – Broken Function Level AuthorizationA regular or unauthenticated user invokes an administrative or privileged API function that should not be available to them.
- Broken API authentication and token abuseAn adversary bypasses login, password recovery, or token validation and assumes the identity of a user or service.
- Sensitive business flow and bot abuseAn automated adversary abuses legitimate functionality such as purchasing, booking, registration, voting, commenting, or account recovery.
- Credential stuffing and password sprayingAn adversary automatically tests leaked username-password pairs or a small set of common passwords against many accounts.
- MFA fatigue, push bombing, and interceptionAn adversary floods a user with MFA prompts, intercepts a code, or uses social engineering to make the user approve an unauthorized sign-in.
- Session and access-token hijackingAn adversary steals a cookie, OAuth token, or another session artifact and accesses a service without re-entering a password or MFA.
Relevant ATT&CK techniques
- T1005 · Data from Local SystemPrevent, Recover
- T1069 · Permission Groups DiscoveryDetect, Prevent, Respond
- T1078 · Valid AccountsDetect, Prevent, Respond
- T1098 · Account ManipulationDetect, Prevent, Respond
- T1110 · Brute ForceDetect, Prevent
- T1111 · Multi-Factor Authentication InterceptionDetect, Prevent
- T1136 · Create AccountDetect, Prevent, Respond
- T1213 · Data from Information RepositoriesPrevent, Recover
- T1484 · Domain or Tenant Policy ModificationDetect, Prevent, Respond
- T1530 · Data from Cloud StoragePrevent, Recover
- T1539 · Steal Web Session CookieDetect, Prevent
- T1550 · Use Alternate Authentication MaterialDetect, Prevent, Respond
- T1556 · Modify Authentication ProcessDetect, Prevent, Respond
- T1565 · Data ManipulationPrevent, Recover
- T1600 · Weaken EncryptionPrevent, Recover
- T1621 · Multi-Factor Authentication Request GenerationDetect, Prevent