--- title: "Your Certs Are Expiring: Digital Certificate Management Explained" url: https://daily.dev/posts/your-certs-are-expiring-digital-certificate-management-explained-t28o61tr1 source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7EgIMWOqgw type: video:youtube source: "IBM Technology" published: 2026-05-31T11:29:06.142Z updated: 2026-05-31T11:29:24.307Z tags: ["automation"] reading_time: 9 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Your Certs Are Expiring: Digital Certificate Management Explained **[IBM Technology](https://daily.dev/sources/ibmtechnology)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Digital certificates act as machine credentials enabling authentication, confidentiality, and integrity for encrypted communications. Certificate expiration — not hacking — has caused major outages at banks, airlines, and emergency services. Modern enterprises manage thousands of certificates across web servers, APIs, microservices, IoT devices, and more, creating 'machine identity sprawl.' Certificate lifetimes are shrinking dramatically: the CA/Browser Forum roadmap sets 200-day limits in 2026, 100 days in 2027, and just 47 days by 2029. This makes manual management untenable and demands automated lifecycle management covering discovery, issuance, monitoring, rotation, revocation, and retirement. Organizations that automate will eliminate outages and reduce human error; those that don't will face repeated painful failures. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [From 398 Days to 47: Why Website Security Certificates Are Getting Shorter?](https://daily.dev/posts/from-398-days-to-47-why-website-security-certificates-are-getting-shorter--romldzze9) · Latest Hacking News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [How CISOs can prepare for the new era of short-lived TLS certificates](https://daily.dev/posts/how-cisos-can-prepare-for-the-new-era-of-short-lived-tls-certificates-vpcjrpss7) · CSO Online · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [SSL Certificate Requirements are Becoming Obnoxious](https://daily.dev/posts/ssl-certificate-requirements-are-becoming-obnoxious-hadfzugrc) · Hacker News · 2 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#automation](https://daily.dev/tags/automation) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/your-certs-are-expiring-digital-certificate-management-explained-t28o61tr1)