CertKit 1.9: push agent updates from the dashboard, no more logging into every server. Plus Google Trust Store as a second ACME issuer alongside Let's Encrypt.
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Automated SSL certificate management for IT teams who have better things to do. No scripts, no cron jobs. Free 90-day trial to start renewing your certificates.
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Automated SSL certificate management for IT teams who have better things to do. No scripts, no cron jobs. Free 90-day trial to start renewing your certificates.
Automated SSL certificate management for IT teams who have better things to do. No scripts, no cron jobs. Free 90-day trial to start renewing your certificates.
Security vendors use "trust" as a magic spell. One homepage: 17 uses. I still don't know what they sell. You find out after you fill out a form, take a call, sit through a demo, and receive a market-ecture PDF.
Automated SSL certificate management for IT teams who have better things to do. No scripts, no cron jobs. Free 90-day trial to start renewing your certificates.
CertKit is out of beta.
600 signups. Real production deployments. A Keystore for keeping private keys on-prem. RDP and RRAS support for Windows shops.
Now there's real pricing — and 40% off forever if you get in before May 31st.
Automated SSL certificate management for IT teams who have better things to do. No scripts, no cron jobs. Free 90-day trial to start renewing your certificates.
Automated SSL certificate management for IT teams who have better things to do. No scripts, no cron jobs. Free 90-day trial to start renewing your certificates.
CertKit Agent 1.8: Windows Certificate Store, Java Keystore, and RDP auto-detection.
We also shipped a retro MS-DOS confirmation dialog on April Fools Day. It is fully keyboard-compatible.
https://www.certkit.io/blog/agent-1.8 #CertificateManagement #PKI
Automated SSL certificate management for IT teams who have better things to do. No scripts, no cron jobs. Free 90-day trial to start renewing your certificates.
Let's Encrypt ran a mass revocation drill on 3 million production certificates in March. No user notifications. They shortened ARI windows to signal an emergency and watched who responded.
Most ACME clients never noticed.
https://www.certkit.io/blog/lets-encrypt-mass-revocation-simulation
Automated SSL certificate management for IT teams who have better things to do. No scripts, no cron jobs. Free 90-day trial to start renewing your certificates.
Some organizations have a hard requirement: private keys cannot leave the network perimeter. Third-party cert management has always meant violating that policy.
The CertKit Local Keystore is the fix. Keys stay on your infrastructure. Full automation still works.
www.certkit.io/blog/certkit-keystore
Automated SSL certificate management for IT teams who have better things to do. No scripts, no cron jobs. Free 90-day trial to start renewing your certificates.
A 2024 PKI survey found organizations averaged 3 certificate outages over 24 months. In almost every case, the certificate renewed fine.
Distribution is where it fell apart.
https://www.certkit.io/blog/certificate-distribution-is-the-last-mile #PKI #infosec
Automated SSL certificate management for IT teams who have better things to do. No scripts, no cron jobs. Free 90-day trial to start renewing your certificates.
Mass revocation gives you 24 hours and thousands of certs to replace. ARI (RFC 9773) automates it, but only if your ACME client is always running.
Certbot uses a cron job. acme.sh has no ARI support.
https://www.certkit.io/blog/ari-solves-mass-certificate-revocation
Automated SSL certificate management for IT teams who have better things to do. No scripts, no cron jobs. Free 90-day trial to start renewing your certificates.
CertKit now supports ACME ARI and 6-day certificates.
ARI means the CA tells us when to renew. We check it multiple times a day. Your next mass revocation event? Just another boring Tuesday.
Nothing to configure.
https://www.certkit.io/blog/acme-ari-and-6-day-certificates #PKI #infosec
Automated SSL certificate management for IT teams who have better things to do. No scripts, no cron jobs. Free 90-day trial to start renewing your certificates.
Your cert renewed. The old one is still serving.
LinkedIn renewed 10 days before expiry. It never deployed.
Most automation catches "forgot to renew." Nobody verifies the new cert is what the server is actually sending.
https://www.certkit.io/blog/how-to-verify-certificate-renewal #PKI #TLS
Automated SSL certificate management for IT teams who have better things to do. No scripts, no cron jobs. Free 90-day trial to start renewing your certificates.
Certificate management has always been a one-person job. CertKit now supports team access: role-based permissions, SAML SSO, MFA, and a weekly digest to keep the whole org in the loop.
Automated SSL certificate management for IT teams who have better things to do. No scripts, no cron jobs. Free 90-day trial to start renewing your certificates.
March 15 is last call on 398-day certificates. After that, 200-day max, 100 in 2027, 47 in 2029.
Renew now and you buy yourself time to automate on your terms. Wait, and the CA/B Forum sets your schedule for you.
https://www.certkit.io/blog/last-call-on-398-day-certificates #PKI #WebPKI
Automated SSL certificate management for IT teams who have better things to do. No scripts, no cron jobs. Free 90-day trial to start renewing your certificates.
CertKit Agent 1.6: RRAS support, deploy windows, and agent locking.
Shorter lifetimes mean certificate automation has to act like real deployments: issue, deploy, verify. Deploy windows keep disruptions inside maintenance windows, and agent locking freezes commands so UI changes can’t be weaponized.
Automated SSL certificate management for IT teams who have better things to do. No scripts, no cron jobs. Free 90-day trial to start renewing your certificates.
22,000+ incidents in the Verizon DBIR. Man-in-the-middle? Less than 4%, mostly phishing proxies. Not TLS interception.
Forward Secrecy killed "record now, decrypt later." So what actually compromises your connections?
Automated SSL certificate management for IT teams who have better things to do. No scripts, no cron jobs. Free 90-day trial to start renewing your certificates.
Curious how CertKit works? I made a page for that.
Automated SSL certificate management for IT teams who have better things to do. No scripts, no cron jobs. Free 90-day trial to start renewing your certificates.
We found a valid DigiCert certificate on a domain we just purchased, issued to someone we've never met. Getting it revoked took 6 emails. 72 hours after confirmed revocation, every browser still trusts it.
Automated SSL certificate management for IT teams who have better things to do. No scripts, no cron jobs. Free 90-day trial to start renewing your certificates.
Most “certificate automation” stops at issuance. That’s how you renew a cert and still serve the old one.
With the CertKit agent, we can now do all three. Renew certs, deploy files, restart services, verify the correct certs run in production.