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SSL automation is easier than most organizations think, delivering 243% ROI, fewer outages, and readiness for 47-day SSL certificates.

State, local, and education (SLED) institutions face growing certificate complexity and shrinking SSL lifecycles. By 2029, public certificates will last only 47 days making manual management unsustainable. Learn how automation ensures uptime, compliance, and crypto agility for the public sector.

47-day certs, post-quantum cryptography (PQC), and mutual TLS (mTLS) deadlines are colliding. Automation is the one stone that solves them all.

AI models are thinking. It’s time we start signing them to ensure trust, integrity, and security at the edge.

Sectigo has successfully completed the largest migration of public certificate infrastructure in history, transitioning over half a million SSL/TLS, S/MIME, and code signing certificates from Entrust to Sectigo Certificate Manager. This milestone sets a new standard for digital trust transitions, giving customers a secure, automated, and future-ready CLM platform.

SSL/TLS certificate lifespans are shrinking to just 47 days, making manual management impossible. Without true automation, outages, compliance failures, and financial losses are inevitable. This blog explains why automation is no longer optional, it’s a business survival strategy.

As SSL/TLS lifespans shrink to 47 days, outdated automation strategies put certificates and businesses at risk. From relying on centralized vaults to overusing wildcard certificates, PKI teams often confuse request portals with true lifecycle automation. These seven common missteps reveal why many organizations still face outages, compliance failures, and security gaps. The solution? End-to-end automation that covers discovery, issuance, deployment, and renewal reducing risk while scaling crypto agility.

SSL/TLS certificates are no longer just a technical detail, they’re now a strategic driver of crypto agility. With certificate lifespans shortening to just 47 days by 2029, organizations must adopt automation, certificate visibility, and lifecycle management to stay secure. This shift, alongside the coming impact of quantum computing, forces leadership to treat certificate agility as a core business priority for resilience, compliance, and post-quantum readiness.

Common Mark Certificates (CMC) and Verified Mark Certificates (VMC) both enable brand logos in email inboxes via BIMI, boosting trust, security, and deliverability. The key difference? VMCs require trademark validation and show a blue checkmark in Gmail, while CMCs are faster and more affordable but have limited support. Learn which option fits your email security and branding goals.

Quantum computing poses an existential threat to RSA and ECC encryption, making post-quantum cryptography (PQC) essential. This article explains quantum-safe certificates, the new NIST PQC standards, and hybrid certificates that blend classical and quantum-safe algorithms to enable a smoother transition. Learn how businesses can prepare now with automation, testing, and crypto agility.