STRATEGIC REEL: Certificate expiration is speeding up — outpacing legacy management
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<p>The clock on digital trust is about to speed up — and many organizations are not prepared for what comes next.</p><p><em><strong>Related:</strong> <a href="https://www.webpronews.com/google-bazel-outage-expired-ssl-certificate-sparks-build-failures/" rel="nofollow">The Google Bazel tool outage</a></em></p><p><a href="https://www.digicert.com/tls-ssl/tls-ssl-certificates" rel="nofollow">TLS certificates</a> — the quiet backbone of secure online communication — are headed toward dramatically shorter lifespans, and organizations will have to keep pace.</p><p>Today, many certificates last more than a year. But under <a href="https://cabforum.org/working-groups/server/baseline-requirements/requirements/" rel="nofollow">formal changes</a> already advancing through the CA/Browser Forum, those lifecycles are shrinking in steps: from roughly 398 days to 200, then to 100, and ultimately to 47 days by 2029.</p><p>That compresses renewal windows, removes operational cushion, and raises stakes for uptime, reliability, and customer confidence.</p><p>In that reality, manual certificate management will not scale. Missed renewals don’t just create technical debt — they trigger outages, revenue loss, and cascading trust failures. The sustainable answer, DigiCert’s <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleystevenson/" rel="nofollow">Ashley Stevenson</a> explains, is modernization: consolidate fragmented environments, centralize visibility, and automate the lifecycle.</p><p>Organizations that treat this as a narrow compliance checklist may fall behind. Those that build platform-driven oversight — monitoring, policy enforcement, and automatic renewal — strengthen resilience and reduce business risk.</p><p>This is not a distant forecast. It is a near-term operational shift. And it recasts certificates from background plumbing into a live trust function that warrants executive attention.</p><p>Catch the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_CmtU7a28k&t=10s" rel="nofollow">full Strategic Reel</a> above, part of Last Watchdog’s ongoing series on cybersecurity leadership.</p><div id="attachment_38413" style="width: 110px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://www.lastwatchdog.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/Byron-sepia-hedcut-1.png" rel="nofollow"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-38413" class="size-thumbnail wp-image-38413" src="https://www.lastwatchdog.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/Byron-sepia-hedcut-1-100x139.png" alt="" width="100" height="139" srcset="https://www.lastwatchdog.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/Byron-sepia-hedcut-1-100x139.png 100w, https://www.lastwatchdog.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/Byron-sepia-hedcut-1-520x725.png 520w, https://www.lastwatchdog.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/Byron-sepia-hedcut-1.png 544w" sizes="(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px"></a> <p id="caption-attachment-38413" class="wp-caption-text">Acohido</p> </div><p><em><a href="https://www.lastwatchdog.com/pulitzer-centennial-highlights-role-journalism/" rel="nofollow">Pulitzer Prize-winning </a>business journalist Byron V. 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