Certificate failures can cost firms over $250,000
DigiCert survey finds certificate failures cost firms over $250,000 per incident, with 47-day TLS certificates set to multiply management workloads by 2029.
DigiCert's Certificate Management Outlook reports that 34% of companies experienced outages from expired certificates and 40% from mismanagement, with nearly one in four citing incidents costing over $250,000. The CA/Browser Forum's move to 47-day certificate lifespans by 2029 will require renewals eight times more often and 40 times as many domain validations. Over half of organizations manage more than 1,000 certificates, yet only 10% have automation in place, with budget constraints and legacy systems cited as key barriers.
- 47-day certificate lifespans by 2029 will require 8x more renewals and 40x more domain validations
- 34% of firms had outages from expired certificates; 40% from certificate mismanagement
- Nearly one in four reported a certificate incident costing over $250,000
- Only 10% of organizations have certificate lifecycle automation in place
- Automated certificate lifecycle management ranks third-highest cybersecurity priority
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The move toward 47-day public TLS certificates by 2029 will increase the certificate management workload for enterprises, according to DigiCert’s Certificate Management Outlook. Organizations will need to renew certificates more than eight times as often as under the previous certificate lifecycle and conduct 40 times as many domain validations.
By Anamarija Pogorelec · helpnetsecurity.com
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