Digital certificates provide powerful, PKI-based security to enable the creation of trusted device identities. Their strength and ease-of-use in today’s rapidly expanding device ecosystem comes with one caveat: they have an expiration date. While this feature actually helps them stay secure, it does mean that they must be renewed periodically. This administrative aspect of certificate-based security can be a pain point for organizations without the right management solutions and may even be a source of breach.
Expired certificates aren’t just security liabilities, however (although the security implications of running systems with expired certificates should not be ignored). Outages caused by expired certificates are a potential source of reputation damage, customer frustration, or even lost business for organizations of all sizes and across sectors