Paul Horn

Chief Technical Officer

Paul Horn is the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Accutive Security; he has over 30 years of cybersecurity and software development experience with a focus on data protection and cryptography

Latest Articles

What Are Entrust nShield HSMs? A Guide to Entrust HSMs for Enterprise Key Protection

06/11/2026

CLM Automation: How to Prevent Certificate Outages Before They Break Production

06/11/2026

Beyond the Mythos: What Anthropic’s Groundbreaking Model Actually Changes for Cryptography and Identity Security

05/25/2026

Certificate Lifecycle Management: Complete Guide for 2026

05/15/2026

Post-Quantum Cryptography: Google’s Willow and the new 2029 Quantum Deadline

03/31/2026

Securing Non-Human Identities: Closing the Growing Identity Security Gap

03/12/2026

HSM vs KMS: The CISO’s Guide to Strategic Key Management

02/04/2026

What is PKI in Cybersecurity? The Complete Guide for Cloud, Hybrid, and On Prem Teams

01/18/2026

Quebec Law 25 / loi 25: Data Compliance Considerations and What You Need to Know

09/08/2025

Building a Secure Test Data Management Strategy in Financial Services

09/03/2025

How to Implement GDPR Data Masking Without Sacrificing Data Usability

07/30/2025

Data Masking Challenges in Complex Data Environments for DBAs

07/28/2025

Guide to Synthetic Data Generation: Tool for Secure Testing and AI

06/10/2025

Guide to PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance: PCI Data Masking and Tokenization

05/22/2025

Data Masking for the Banking Industry: Key Considerations for Financial Institutions

02/20/2025

Understanding Passkeys and Hardware Tokens: Building phishing-resistant authentication

01/16/2025

CISO Challenges for 2025: Overcoming Cybersecurity Complexities

12/19/2024

Apple 45-Day Certs: Implications for Certificate Lifecycle Management

12/04/2024

5 Powerful Integrations with Thales HSMs (Hardware Security Modules)

11/24/2024

How to Move from Manual to Certificate Automation with ACME

11/20/2024

Sensitive Data Discovery for Enterprises: Turning Data Chaos into Compliance

11/06/2024

Test Data Management Best Practices For Sensitive Data

10/29/2024

Data Masking Challenges: Overcoming Complexities in Multi-Database Environments

10/28/2024

Test Data Management & Compliance Challenges For On-Prem Environments

10/09/2024

Choosing the Best Data Anonymization Tools: A Guide for Secure DevOps

09/25/2024

PII masking : How to Anonymize Sensitive Data with Accuracy and Speed?

09/11/2024

Managing Certificate Chaos After Google’s Entrust Distrust

09/05/2024

Synthetic vs. Realistic Data for Gen AI & LLM?

08/13/2024

7 features to look for in a PII Data Discovery Software

08/05/2024

Oracle Data Masking: Oracle Enterprise vs. Alternatives

07/24/2024

PIPEDA Compliance with Accutive Data Discovery and Masking: Understanding and protecting your Canadian sensitive data

04/30/2024

CCPA Compliance with Accutive Data Discovery and Masking: Understanding and protecting your sensitive data

04/24/2024

Solving Kubernetes Security Complexities with Machine Identity Management

04/04/2024

Google’s Push for 90-Day SSL/TLS Certificates: Is 90-day cert expiry coming?

03/26/2024

Thales + Imperva: Echoes of the Transformative Impact of the Gemalto Acquisition?

12/14/2023