More requirements.
More responsibilities.
Less room for error.
The more you manage to advance, the more advanced management becomes. Gone are the simpler times when a typical PKI workflow was essentially, “order, issue, install, renew, repeat.”
For the modern enterprise—and the modern security director who runs it—the scale is exponentially larger, the complexity is orders of magnitude greater, the risk tolerance is zero, and the stakes are the highest they’ve ever been.