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Join Sectigo as we explore why traditional automation models are reaching their limits and how organizations can evolve from disconnected certificate management practices to centralized certificate lifecycle orchestration.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — September 1, 2026 — Sectigo, a global leader in automated Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) and digital certificates, today announced the appointment of Ian Hassard as Chief Product Officer. Hassard will lead Sectigo's global product strategy and drive the continued evolution of Sectigo Certificate Manager (SCM).

With certificate lifespans shortening, we occasionally run into those who disagree with this trend and seek to lengthen maximum term once again.  We examine regressive attitudes in PKI, why they occur, and the reasons that lessening security is generally a bad policy.

X9 is a consortium certificate for interbanking applications. There is a common misunderstanding that X9 certificates are a public-trust surrogate for mTLS using WebPKI certificates.  We clarify why this is not the case.

Join this session to get a practical view of what X9 certificates are, how they compare to WebPKI, and where they actually make sense in real-world environments.

"Chaos engineering" describes the practice of injecting faults into a system to see what happens. This is a known strategy for deterministic systems, but with the advent of non-deterministic AI systems, chaos engineering has taken on greater importance.

Since frontier-model AIs have been trained on a large portion of published human knowledge, widespread publication of incorrect information can taint AI results. As more AI-generated slop finds its way onto the internet, this runs the risk of further poisoning AI results. This ultimately can result in completely unusable information.

It is possible to use common tools like OpenSSL to create your own ML-DSA private CA. This is a great tool for development and research projects, but Jason explains the pitfalls with trying to do this for production systems.

We are replacing RSA with the combination of ML-DSA and ML-KEM. We explain the naming convention and specifically what these two algorithms do.

Explore advanced SCM Pro capabilities for certificate visibility, risk reduction, monitoring, and automation.

Quick-start guide for evaluating Sectigo Certificate Manager (SCM) Pro through certificate discovery, inventory management, and ACME automation.

Jason explains de-quantization, which is the practice of using our knowledge of how to use a quantum computer to reframe problems for processing using traditional computing architecture.

There is no CABF or root program rule preventing public CAs from implementing new requirements earlier than their assigned due dates. We discuss reasons to implement a rule early and how early it should be.

A PDF file is a go-to digital resource for official documentation: contracts, business agreements, legal documents, and even HR forms. Short for Portable Document Format, this file format was developed by...

SSL hasn't been a standard in use for nearly thirty years, but we still use the word. We discuss why that is, what else we might say, and the expected effect of Merkle Tree Certificates (MTC) on our technical vocabulary.

With the upcoming deprecation of client authentication using publicly trusted TLS certificates, we go over the common use cases for these certificates. We discuss the reasons public trust is often chosen and how to transition away from it.

Sectigo Orchestration Gateway (SOG) is a lightweight solution for Sectigo Certificate Manager (SCM) that simplifies TLS certificate management. It replaces complex scripts and connectors with a single gateway, providing end-to-end automation from discovery to renewal. SOG secures access through just-in-time credential retrieval (PAM) and prepares organizations for shorter certificate lifetimes and post-quantum cryptography.