An organization wants to ensure that all entities trust any certificate generated internally in the...

Trust in digital certificates comes from their issuance by aCertificate Authority (CA). A CA is a trusted entity that validates identities and signs certificates. In internal environments, organizations often operate aprivate CAto issue certificates for users, systems, and services.

If certificates were generated by individual private keys or systems without central authority, there would be no unified trust chain, and validating authenticity across the organization would be impossible. A certificate repository server only distributes certificates but cannot establish trust.

By using an organizational CA server, all certificates are linked to a root of trust. Systems configured to trust the organization’s CA will trust any certificate it issues. This allows secure internal communications (TLS, VPN, email signing) and ensures scalability as new services come online. It also supports compliance with enterprise PKI policies.