IT bosses are confident they’ve found the certificates they don’t know about

Forty percent of 500 senior IT and security leaders surveyed for certificate authority Sectigo said they are very prepared for monthly TLS certificate renewals because automated systems are already in place. Their more specific answers point elsewhere. Only 4% said their certificate management is already automated, and 61% said their organization had a certificate-related outage or incident in the past 12 months. Sou…

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