The WebPKI ecosystem is approaching its most significant transformation in over a decade. The operational stakes are rising, and the industry is entering a period where scale, automation, and resilience will define success.

To help organizations prepare for this shift, DigiCert has released a new white paper, Upgrading WebPKI for 10X Scale, outlining how upcoming CA/Browser Forum changes—including the move to 47-day TLS certificates and 10-day domain validations—will reshape the operational demands of the internet and require major advances in trust infrastructure. 

Here’s a preview of the changes ahead—and what DigiCert is doing to prepare.

A decade-defining shift in digital trust

Shorter certificate lifetimes will fundamentally change how digital identity is maintained online. In this new timeline, renewals become continuous. Validation becomes time sensitive. Manual workflows that once seemed manageable now introduce real risk of outages and operational failures.

Organizations will need trust systems that operate at the speed of modern infrastructure: automated, scalable, and built to absorb rapid change.

How DigiCert is preparing for 10X scale

DigiCert is modernizing its global trust platform to support this new reality. Issuance systems are being rearchitected for 10X throughput. Multi-zone, WebTrust-audited data centers strengthen availability and remove single points of failure. Multi-perspective DNS validation adds protection against increasingly sophisticated manipulation attempts. And a post-quantum-ready architecture—combined with expanded CT, OCSP, and CRL delivery across a global Multi-CDN footprint—ensures fast, resilient trust services worldwide.

Automation as the new foundation of resilience

As certificate lifetimes shorten, automation is becoming the only sustainable way to maintain continuity. DigiCert is embedding automation throughout the trust ecosystem, combining AI-accelerated validations, ACME-based renewal, and the unified automation capabilities of DigiCert ONE.

Explore the full strategy behind 10X-scale trust

Shorter lifetimes, faster validation, and quantum-era cryptography represent a turning point for digital trust. Organizations that prepare now will be positioned to maintain security, uptime, and confidence as the pace of change accelerates.

Download the white paper today for a deeper look at the architecture and strategy shaping DigiCert’s 10X-scale modernization.