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TLS/SSL Certificate Deadlines Are Dropping to 47 Days: Media Coverage of ASEE’s Certiligent Platform

May 20, 2026
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As TLS/SSL certificate validity periods move toward just 47 days, organizations are facing growing pressure to automate certificate lifecycle management and reduce the risk of unexpected outages.

As TLS/SSL certificate validity periods continue to decrease — from 398 days today to only 47 days by 2029 — organizations are facing a growing operational burden in managing certificate lifecycles across increasingly complex IT environments. What was once a periodic administrative task is becoming a continuous operational process that requires significantly more oversight, automation, and coordination.

This industry-wide transition has drawn media attention to ASEE’s Certiligent platform, introduced as a centralized solution for monitoring and automating TLS/SSL certificate lifecycle management.

Why Shorter Certificate Validity Periods Create Operational Pressure

TLS/SSL certificates remain a critical part of digital security infrastructure, enabling encrypted communication, protecting sensitive information, and validating the identity of online services. When certificates expire unexpectedly, organizations risk service interruptions, browser security warnings, operational downtime, and reputational damage.

The reduction in certificate validity periods significantly increases the number of required renewals each year, placing additional pressure on IT and security teams. Organizations operating large-scale digital infrastructures — especially banks, financial institutions, healthcare systems, e-commerce providers, and enterprise environments — are expected to face the greatest operational impact.

“What used to be an annual administrative task is becoming a continuous operational challenge. Instead of one renewal per year, we are now talking about up to eight renewals per certificate. If an organization manages hundreds of certificates, this is no longer a side responsibility — it practically requires a dedicated employee to handle it.” — Robert Preskar, Director of Product and Solution Development for Security and Card Business, ASEE Croatia.

How Certiligent Supports Automated Certificate Management

Certiligent provides organizations with centralized certificate visibility, continuous 24/7 monitoring, automated renewal and replacement workflows, flexible policy management, and proactive expiration alerts. The platform supports multiple certificate authorities and adapts to different IT environments, helping organizations reduce operational complexity while minimizing the risk of certificate-related incidents.

By automating certificate lifecycle management, organizations can reduce manual workload, improve scalability, minimize emergency interventions, and strengthen the resilience and availability of their digital services.

ASEE has decades of experience in cybersecurity and digital infrastructure solutions, with technologies implemented across financial institutions, public sector organizations, and enterprise systems in 24 countries worldwide.

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Frequently Asked Questions

When a TLS/SSL certificate expires, browsers and applications no longer trust the encrypted connection. Users immediately see security warnings, the TLS handshake fails, and websites, APIs, mobile apps, or internal systems can become inaccessible. Expired certificates can cause service outages, reputational damage, compliance issues, and disruption of critical business operations.

The cybersecurity industry is gradually reducing certificate validity periods from 398 days to just 47 days by 2029 to improve security hygiene, reduce long-term cryptographic exposure, and strengthen trust in digital communications. However, shorter lifespans significantly increase operational pressure on IT and security teams.

As organizations manage hundreds or thousands of machine identities across cloud, hybrid, and enterprise environments, manually tracking certificate expirations becomes operationally unsustainable. A single missed renewal can interrupt customer-facing services, payment systems, APIs, or internal applications.

With certificate validity periods moving toward 47 days, organizations may need to renew TLS/SSL certificates up to eight times per year instead of once annually. This transforms certificate management from an occasional administrative task into a continuous operational process.

Certiligent continuously monitors TLS/SSL certificates and automatically renews and replaces them before expiration. The platform operates in the background to ensure certificates remain valid, compliant, and deployed without manual intervention or downtime.

Manual certificate management relies on spreadsheets, calendar reminders, fragmented ownership, and human intervention. As infrastructures grow and renewal cycles shorten, the likelihood of human error, missed renewals, and emergency interventions increases significantly.

Banks, financial institutions, healthcare systems, e-commerce platforms, regulated organizations, and large enterprises with complex IT infrastructure are particularly exposed because uninterrupted availability, compliance, and customer trust are business-critical.

Certiligent automates certificate discovery, monitoring, issuance, renewal, replacement, and deployment through centralized lifecycle management. It also provides audit logs, compliance-ready reporting, visibility across environments, and integration with supported Certificate Authorities (CAs).

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