Digital SSL certificates are a vital methodology for maintaining secure encrypted operations between an end user and a web server. They confirm the legitimacy of a website to a customer, ensure confidentiality and maintain the security of online transactions.
However, each certificate has its own expiry timeframe, set of policies, and potentially its own vulnerabilities. Even relatively small organisations can have 000s of certificates, some legacy or ‘wild card’, and often with little visibility of where they are or when they expire.
Expired certificates can cause regular outages, affecting customer confidence and potentially opening the door to cyber breach. Certificate management identifies all certificates across an estate, giving you visibility of expiry information and reducing the chance of an unexpected outage.
The certificate management process can also introduce automation, reducing the resources needed to renew certificates, maintaining your cyber secure posture, and safeguarding your reputation.
Taking back control of your certificates is a major step towards improved security and better IT resource management. FullProxy will work with you to provide the help you need, whether that’s implementing a self-serve certificate management package for you to run ongoing, or working with you to fully manage, automate and integrate solutions strategically into your organisation.
FullProxy will conduct a one-off initial assessment of your estate, identifying all certificates including wild card and legacy.
We’ll design a secure zero-trust based SSH management process for your entire organisation and integrate certification management software, giving you full visibility of all SSH keys generated and access privileges across your estate.
The entire certificate lifestyle – from discovery & installation to renewal – can then be automated, ensuring your compliance to PKI mandates, removing the need for manual updates and maintaining control of security blind spots.
FullProxy works closely with AppViewX to deliver a seamless, enterprise-grade certificate management service across your estate. We can implement any AppViewX solution, including:
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In general, the longer an SSL/TLS certificate stays valid, the less secure it becomes. That’s one of the reasons why Google is moving towards a standardised 90 days duration – down from up to 5 years – for all Chrome web browser certificates.
Google has over 65% of all browser traffic, so the change will definitely impact your websites and certificates, plus it’s likely that this will become standardised by the other internet giants.
Shortening the lifespan of SSL certificates should have many positive benefits for website security and customer trust, but will effectively quadruple or more the certificate renewal process for already stretched IT management teams. The change is likely to be implemented in 2024, although a concrete timescale has yet to be announced.
Automating your certificate management ahead of Google’s change will ensure the impact on your team is minimised and the risk to your web infrastructure mitigated.
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