By 2029, TLS certificate lifespans will shrink to just 47 days, turning routine renewals into a major operational and financial risk. For an organization managing only 1,000 certificates, manual renewal processes could consume 48,000 hours per year, the equivalent of 24 full-time employees and $2.88M in annual labor costs (before factoring in the cost of outages).
This whitepaper quantifies the true cost of manual TLS certificate management and explains why automation is now essential. It shows how automated certificate lifecycle management (CLM) delivers rapid ROI, reduces outage risk, and prepares organizations for accelerating cryptographic change.
You’ll learn:
- The real financial impact of shrinking TLS lifespans, from 398 days today to 47 days by 2029.
- Why manual certificate management scales 12× in workload over the next four years
- How automated CLM eliminates 90–95% of manual renewal effort and delivers ROI within a single renewal cycle
- The hidden costs of certificate outages, diverted engineering talent, and stalled digital initiatives
- How automation enables long-term crypto-agility for CA distrust events, algorithm changes, and post-quantum transitions
Download the whitepaper to quantify your risk, understand the ROI, and see why automated TLS certificate management is becoming a business imperative, not just a technical upgrade.
Who should read this whitepaper:
- CIOs, CISOs, and IT security leaders responsible for uptime, risk, and budget
- PKI, IAM, and infrastructure architects managing certificates across hybrid environments
- Security operations and engineering leaders facing growing renewal volumes and outage risk
- Compliance and risk teams preparing for audits and cryptographic policy changes
- IT and security decision-makers building long-term machine identity and crypto-agility strategies
