How to Request or Renew Digital Certificates from Home As most people connect with your business solely online during COVID-19, it is more important than ever to maintain your websites’ security. Working from home can open up possibilities for hackers, but you can keep your systems secure by having and maintaining online certificates. TLS/SSL certificates […]
Even before the coronavirus outbreak, employees were increasingly working from home. According to the Federal Reserve, the percentage of the labor force working from home tripled in the last 15 years. However, since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, many companies are asking their employees to work from home. As more people log […]
Three, Two, One, Liftoff on One-Year TLS Certificates At the CA/Browser (CA/B) Forum in Bratislava, Slovakia, this week, Apple announced that beginning Sept. 1, newly issued publicly trusted TLS certificates are valid for no longer than 398 days. This followed a long history of the CA/B Forum community working to reduce certificate lifetimes and improve […]
It was reported recently that due to a technical flaw, it is possible for some Certificate Authorities (CAs) to create valid OCSP responses for certificates that they did not issue and do not control. This creates an issue for the CAs that operate and maintain these certificates. While this is a complicated issue, this blog […]
The Internet of Things (IoT) has not yet reached maturity, but with all its possibilities, users and manufacturers have enthusiastically acquired and invested in it without properly considering security. We’re still figuring out a lot about the IoT: what we want from it, what level of privacy we are comfortable with, where the legal limits […]
DigiCert actively participates in several industry standards groups and discussions. This year many in-person events have been canceled due to COVID-19 restrictions, which makes it harder to build relationships through side conversations that foster advancement. However, we remain committed to improving internet security, whether through in-person or virtual discussions. The CA/Browser (CA/B) Forum held a […]
