June 19th, 2026
Build vs. Buy Automotive PKI: Why OEMs Are Moving to PKI as a Service
Every OEM hits this question sooner or later: build your own PKI, or hand it to a provider? This article walks through what changes when you move from self-hosted PKI to PKI as a Service, how OTA signing, secure boot, V2X, and Plug and Charge actually work under PKIaaS, and where the real tradeoffs sit between owning your CA infrastructure versus letting a provider carry that weight.
