All Deployments: Trusted Endpoint Certificate Issuance and Renewal Issues
Incident Report for Duo
Postmortem

Cloud PKI Outage

Incident Report - 2019/09/26

Summary:

From 21:03 to 21:33 UTC on September 26, 2019, Duo’s Cloud PKI service experienced an outage that prevented requests for new and renewing Trusted Endpoint certificates. Existing trusted endpoint certificates were not affected. The root cause of the issue has been resolved and Duo is working towards preventing similar issues going forward.

Details:

Duo uses a Cloud PKI service to issue and renew certificates for Duo’s Trusted Endpoints feature. This Cloud PKI service experienced a physical hardware failure at approximately 21:03. This hardware failure took down the firewall for Duo’s Cloud PKI service, which prevented requests for new certificates and renewals to fail until new hardware was allocated.

After the root cause was identified, the firewall hardware was deallocated and reallocated to resolve the issue. Duo is working towards a high availability infrastructure with our Cloud PKI service to prevent individual hardware failures from causing outages in the future.

Posted Sep 27, 2019 - 11:59 EDT

Resolved
From 7:04 PM Eastern to 7:32 PM Eastern our Cloud PKI encountered an issue that may have affected some customers when issuing or renewing Trusted Endpoints certificates. The issue has been remediated but we are monitoring for any customers who may have been affected. Authentications were not affected in any way.
Posted Sep 27, 2019 - 11:56 EDT
Monitoring
From 7:04 PM Eastern to 7:32 PM Eastern our Cloud PKI encountered an issue that may have affected some customers when issuing or renewing Trusted Endpoints certificates. The issue has been remediated but we are monitoring for any customers who may have been affected. Authentications were not affected in any way.
Posted Sep 26, 2019 - 19:57 EDT
This incident affected: DUO1 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO2 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO3 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO4 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO5 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO6 (Admin Panel, Core Authentication Service, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO7 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO8 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO47 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO10 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO11 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO12 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO13 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO14 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO15 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO16 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO17 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO18 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO19 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO20 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO21 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO22 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO23 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO24 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO25 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO26 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO27 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO28 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO29 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO30 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO31 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO32 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO33 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO34 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO36 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO37 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO38 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO39 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO40 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO41 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO42 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO43 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO44 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO45 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO46 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO48 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO9 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO49 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO50 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO51 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO52 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO53 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO54 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO55 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO56 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO57 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO58 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO59 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO60 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO61 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO62 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO63 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO64 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), DUO65 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI), and DUO35 (Core Authentication Service, Admin Panel, Push Delivery, Phone Call Delivery, SMS Message Delivery, Cloud PKI).