SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – December 10, 2025 – Sectigo, a global leader in automated Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) and digital certificates, today announced it has once again secured top honors in the G2 Winter 2025 Grid Reports.
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Public sector agencies depend on digital certificates to secure communication, authenticate identities, and protect critical infrastructure. However, growing certificate volumes, short lifespans, complex environments, and increasing cyber threats make manual certificate lifecycle management (CLM) unsustainable. Automated and centralized CLM improves visibility, reduces outages, strengthens compliance with FISMA and other regulations, and ensures secure, resilient public services.
Financial institutions face rising risks from certificate expirations, fragmented ecosystems, and compliance pressures. Automated certificate lifecycle management (CLM) offers opportunities to improve security, reduce outages, streamline compliance, and gain unified visibility across digital certificates.
We discuss quantum clocks and their potential role in cryptography.
TLS certificate lifespans are shrinking : first to 200 days, then to just 47. That means more frequent renewals, higher risk of outages, and tighter operational timelines.
The 2026 PKI landscape will be defined by automation, post-quantum readiness, vendor consolidation, AI-driven certificate management, and the rise of model signing as edge AI becomes mainstream.
We share our PKI predictions for 2026. Topics include PQC, eIDAS 2, CT logging, ACME, passkeys, CA distrust, AI model poisoning, and new attack vectors.
Organizations often assume SSL automation is complex, costly, or disruptive but modern CLM platforms prove the opposite. According to Forrester’s TEI Study, Sectigo Certificate Manager delivers 243% ROI and full payback in under six months. As certificate lifespans shrink toward 47 days, automation is now the fastest, most cost-efficient path to resilience, uptime, and PQC readiness.
Jason explores the role cryptography and trust systems play in the command and control of groups of autonomous drone systems.
Darling Ingredients, a global leader in sustainable food and feed, faced recurring outages due to expired certificates and fragmented management across teams. By adopting Sectigo Certificate Manager (SCM), they unified public and private certificate management under one platform, gaining automation, real-time visibility, and centralized control. SCM eliminated manual renewals, reduced downtime, and streamlined operations with enterprise integrations and policy-driven automation helping Darling Ingredients scale securely and confidently.
Certificate maximum term is shrinking. In this episode we examine exactly how short they could get.
In our ongoing series on AI in 1000 days, we describe the inevitable, complete distrust of voice printing as an authentication method, including why and what we think will happen.
Quantum computing is coming, and one of the earliest signals of its impending arrival is the emergence of 47-day certificates. Frequent certificate renewals help CIOs improve their organization’s crypto agility, helping them build the operational muscles needed for a future where static cryptography is no longer viable.
We begin a new series about what we expect from AI in the next three years. In this episode we discuss AI emulating emotional intelligence and its benefits.
With the first key milestone just over 100 days ahead, IT teams are facing a new reality: manual certificate management is no longer sustainable.
Why SLED institutions must adopt certificate automation ahead of the 47-day SSL lifecycle era
SLED agencies must automate certificates before the 47-day SSL era to avoid outages, noncompliance, and rising cyber risk.
The Future of Digital Trust: Tim Callan on Certificates, Cryptography, and Identity | Ep 1138
In this episode of The Digital Executive, host Brian Thomas sits down with Tim Callan, Chief Experience Officer at Sectigo and one of the leading voices in SSL and PKI technology. With over 20 years shaping the standards of digital trust, Tim unpacks how the invisible infrastructure behind certificates and encryption keeps our digital world secure.
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