SC-17—Public Key Infrastructure Certificates
>Control Description
Issue public key certificates under an ⚙organization-defined certificate policy or obtain public key certificates from an approved service provider; and
Include only approved trust anchors in trust stores or certificate stores managed by the organization.
>Discussion
Public key infrastructure (PKI) certificates are certificates with visibility external to organizational systems and certificates related to the internal operations of systems, such as application-specific time services. In cryptographic systems with a hierarchical structure, a trust anchor is an authoritative source (i.e., a certificate authority) for which trust is assumed and not derived. A root certificate for a PKI system is an example of a trust anchor.
A trust store or certificate store maintains a list of trusted root certificates.
>Cross-Framework Mappings
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