Security News > 2021 > March > Why certificate automation is no longer just “nice to have”

As internet standards groups look to boost trust and security through new requirements for shorter certificate lifecycles and online privacy acts introduce increasingly punitive regulatory mandates, the business risks of certificate management are only increasing.

How the four pillars of certificate automation are shaping the next normal.

Certificate automation is talked and theorized about more often than it's put into practice.

There are four pillars of certificate automation designed to bring enterprises from tactical to strategic: discovery, deployment, lifecycle management, and renewal.

IETF standards, like Automated Certificate Management Environment protocol, are gaining traction and cover most use cases for end-to-end certificate management.

This speeds up and simplifies certificate management and the complexity therein of various certificate types, vendors, public and private certificates, and life cycles that require revoke and renewal at different times.

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