Phil Baily

Website Content Manager

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TLS Certificate Management: What’s Changing & Why

This article explains how TLS certificate management is entering a period of major change and why organizations need to reassess their strategies. It outlines the impact of Google’s EKU separation requirement, the tightening of certificate validity periods and the growing operational strain of domain validation. The piece also explores the increasing importance of automation as certificate lifecycles shorten and environments become more segmented, highlighting options for managing client authentication through private PKI or publicly trusted credentials. It concludes by emphasizing that identity remains the foundation of trust and that proactive certificate governance is essential as the industry moves toward more frequent validation, clearer separation of certificate roles and stronger automation-driven controls.
• Phil Baily
PKI Automation