IT professionals are expected to know everything technical, which creates a very high bar, and mistakes can be costly. Increasingly, corporate IT is asked to be more involved with website security ...

The Certification Authority Browser Forum has voted to reduce Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security certificates to 47 days by March 2029, in a move that will radically alter existing security ...

A move to drastically reduce the lifespan of SSL certificates, pushed primarily by Apple and Google, likely won’t make the internet safer — but will force IT to accept more automation. Some have ...

Amy Nichol Smith spent more than 20 years working as a journalist for TV and newspapers before transitioning to software and hardware product reviews for consumers and small businesses. She has been ...

Any activity conducted on the Internet must ultimately rely upon security certificates. These Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates are what businesses and organizations trust and rely on when it ...

The Web cert world has undergone a lot of change this year, and Google has now set a June 2026 deadline for being even stricter about which certificates can be used for which functions. Historically, ...

A group of 38 cybersecurity professors and IT experts worldwide, together with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), have cosigned a letter to EU regulators that warns of a proposal that could ...