47-Day Certificate Resource Hub
The Industry Is Moving to
47-Day Certificates
Everything you need to prepare for 47-day certificate lifespans, the timeline, the impact, and how to automate ahead of 2029.
Understanding the 47 Day Shift
398 → 47
cert lifespan by 20298x
More renewals per year10 Days
Max DCV reuse period by 202935x / year
Re-validations required per domainThe Enterprise
Challenges
Unaware Of Cert Estate
Most teams can’t name every certificate they own. Unknown, untracked certs are the ones that expire silently and take systems down.
Manual Renewal Can’t Keep Up
At 47 days, renewals become near-constant. The spreadsheets, tickets, and reminders that worked before simply break under the volume.
Your PKI Wasn’t Built for This
Shorter lifespans mean far more issuance than your infrastructure was built to handle, exposing limits few teams have tested.
What does a 47-day cadence mean for your team?
298
Renewals / wk1,400
DCV Events / wk1,698
Totals OPS / wk623h
Staff hrs / wk18.0
FTE Equiv / yrAt 2,000 certificates, your team faces a certificate operation every 85 sec of the working day.
Assumes 55 min/renewal and 15 min/validation — a conservative, published pair.
How CertSecure Manager
solves the problem?
CertSecure Manager turns the 47-day mandate into a non-event, automating discovery, renewal, and governance across your entire certificate estate so nothing expires by surprise.
Capability 01
Complete Discovery & Inventory
Capability 02
Certificate Lifecycle Automation
Capability 03
Access Control & Key Management
Capability 04