Security News > 2024 > July > Elexon's Insight into UK electricity felled by expired certificate

Certificate Watch Demonstrating that Microsoft is not alone in its inability to keep track of certificates is UK power market biz Elexon.

Elexon is an important cog in the UK's wholesale electricity market machine and provides operational data via its Insight Solution platform.

Or there would be if it weren't for a pesky expired TLS certificate.

While getting a certificate warning is an inconvenience on the browser, receiving the same from an API service can render many integrations inoperative since, quite correctly, an invalid certificate means the connection is not secure, and the data transmitted on it could be modified or stolen.

We contacted Elexon to find out how the certificate came to be expired, and what steps the outfit took to resolve the situation and ensure it would not be repeated.

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