Digital certificate management tends to run in the background until something goes wrong. An expired certificate can take a website, an application or a critical service offline, causing operational and security problems.
As organizations add more cloud services, applications, domains and devices, keeping control over all those certificates becomes increasingly complex. And the challenge will grow even further with the progressive reduction of TLS certificate validity periods, which will reach a maximum of 47 days in 2029.
In this context, CertiSur developed an online maturity assessment for digital certificate management, designed so that IT and security teams can quickly identify their current situation.
Six dimensions to assess management
The assessment analyzes six key aspects:
- Visibility: does the organization know every certificate it has deployed, where they are and when they expire?
- Automation: do issuance, renewal, installation and revocation depend on manual processes, or are they automated?
- Governance: are there defined owners, policies and controls over certificate management?
- Security and compliance: are appropriate cryptographic policies applied, and are there access and audit controls?
- Technology integration: is certificate management integrated with the tools and platforms the organization uses?
- Future readiness: is there a plan to handle 47-day certificates and the evolution toward new cryptographic technologies?
The assessment takes about five minutes to complete and, at the end, provides an evaluation of the maturity level along with recommendations on the areas that need the most attention.
From a single certificate expiring to managing the entire infrastructure
The paradigm shift is significant. Certificate management should no longer be limited to receiving an alert when one is about to expire.
With ever shorter lifecycles, organizations need centralized visibility, automated processes and clear policies that allow them to manage certificates at scale.
That is why running an initial assessment can be a good starting point to detect gaps before they turn into incidents.
Want to know your organization's maturity level?
CertiSur makes the assessment available online: Access the CertiSur assessment.
Source:Ciberseguridad Latam