The clock is ticking. By 2030, enterprises must implement post-quantum cryptography to meet NIST’s deadline—and the journey starts today.
While quantum computers powerful enough to crack current RSA and ECC encryption remain on the horizon, the threat is real enough that waiting means falling behind. Smart organizations are already laying the groundwork for quantum-safe encryption, building the crypto-agility they’ll need to pivot when the moment arrives.
AppViewX CEO Dino DiMarino recently outlined five critical trends shaping the post-quantum landscape in Forbes. Here we explore two of the five trends that demand immediate attention from IT security leaders:
Build Your Crypto-Agility Foundation Now
Forward-thinking enterprises aren’t waiting for the quantum threat to materialize—they’re investing in flexibility today. This proactive approach involves three key steps:
Discovering cryptographic assets across your entire infrastructure
Automating certificate management to handle the complexity ahead
Designing systems that can seamlessly adopt quantum-safe encryption when needed
By building these capabilities now, organizations position themselves to adopt PQC smoothly when the pressure intensifies.
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NIST’s post-quantum cryptography standards aren’t just guidelines—they’re becoming mandates. Federal requirements and sector-specific regulations are creating a complex web of compliance obligations that organizations must navigate.
The good news? Early alignment with these standards does double duty: it strengthens your security posture today while demonstrating strategic foresight to stakeholders and regulators. Organizations that move early avoid the compliance rush and build competitive advantage.
The Path Forward
These two trends represent just the beginning. DiMarino’s full Forbes article explores additional critical insights around quantum-safe encryption implementation, hybrid testing approaches, DevSecOps integration, and strategic alignment with NIST standards.
Organizations that act now—investing in the right tools, processes, and expertise—will emerge from the quantum transition stronger and more competitive. Those that wait risk being caught flat-footed when quantum computing moves from theoretical threat to practical reality.
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This isn’t a minor update. It’s a full-blown lifestyle shift for PKI and security teams. To put it in perspective, if you’re managing 5,000 certificates today, that’s 5,000 renewals a year. But by 2029, that number jumps to 60,000 renewals annually. That’s 12x more work, risk, and complexity.
And with shorter cycles, the stakes are higher. Even one missed renewal can lead to costly outages, security risks, and compliance failures. According to a recent Forrester survey, 57% of surveyed organizations reported incurring costs of at least $100,000 per outage.
For PKI admins and security teams already juggling high workloads, manual processes and semi-automated scripts won’t scale. They weren’t built for this pace or this level of complexity. What feels “manageable” today could quickly spiral into chaos—unless automation steps in.
So, what does real, scalable, full-spectrum TLS certificate lifecycle automation look like in a 47-day world? And how are the best teams getting it right?
Let’s break it down.
What Modern-Day TLS Certificate Automation Really Looks Like
Adapting to a 47-day TLS means leaning on automation, but not the kind that just sends you renewal reminders and handles a few renewals.
On the surface, certificate lifecycle management (CLM) might look straightforward—enroll, provision, install, renew, and done. But in practice, it’s a complex and layered process. There’s domain validation to complete, endpoints to bind, configurations to check, policies to enforce, and cryptographic hygiene to maintain. All of it needs to happen on time, in the correct order, and in sync.
That’s why full lifecycle automation is essential. You need complete orchestration across the certificate lifecycle—discovery, monitoring, issuance, renewal, provisioning, revocation, and reporting.
The CISO’s Guide to Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM)
1. Continuous Discovery and Foundational Visibility
You can’t automate what you can’t see.
A best-in-class CLM solution continuously discovers certificates across your entire environment, including on-prem, cloud, DevOps pipelines, public and private CAs, and even those hiding in shadow IT. It builds a centralized inventory, mapping certificates back to owners, systems, expiration timelines, and compliance status, giving you complete visibility into your certificate landscape. Instead of juggling spreadsheets, you get clean, rich visual dashboards to monitor every certificate, flag risks early, and stay ahead of expirations. This visibility forms the foundation for automation.
2. Zero-Touch Renewals at Scale
In a 47-day renewal cycle, manual renewals are a guaranteed bottleneck.
Best-in-class CLM solutions automate certificate renewals and provisioning end-to-end. From generating the key pair and CSR to submitting it to the appropriate Certificate Authority (CA), retrieving the renewed certificate, installing it, and even binding it to the correct endpoint or application, every step is seamlessly managed without human intervention.
These solutions integrate directly with public and private CAs, Cloud providers, DevOps toolchains, ITSM platforms, and endpoints, orchestrating certificate management across cross-functional teams. And instead of juggling CA-specific portals, you manage everything through a single, unified console with complete certificate visibility across the enterprise.
The result? No missed steps, no misconfigurations, no last-minute scrambles.
3. Built-In Policy Enforcement
Automation isn’t just about speed; it’s also about control.
Best-in-class CLM automation solutions enforce cryptographic and operational policies at every step. From key length and algorithms to CA trust, approval workflows, and expiration limits, policies are applied automatically, so every certificate issued meets your standards by default. Requests that don’t comply are blocked or flagged, reducing human error and tightening compliance even as certificate volumes grow.
Role-based access control (RBAC) adds another layer of governance, clearly defining who can request, approve, or issue certificates. That means fewer rogue certs, less sprawl, and tighter control across the board.
And with every action logged in detailed audit trails, both internal and external audits become faster and easier.
4. Real-Time Alerts and Reporting
When certificates only last 47 days, you need to know what’s at risk before it becomes a problem.
Best-in-class CLM automation solutions provide real-time alerts and reports for expiring, misconfigured, or non-compliant certificates. You receive proactive notifications well before a certificate expiry and detailed compliance reports to keep stakeholders informed. This transparency is essential for continuous monitoring when operating on monthly renewal cycles.
5. Crypto-Agility and Rapid Response
While 47-day certificates are the immediate challenge, cryptography is evolving fast.
Post-quantum cryptography, CA distrust events, and changing regulatory standards demand the ability to adapt quickly and at scale.
Best-in-class CLM platforms are built for crypto-agility. They support seamless algorithm changes, bulk certificate replacement, and CA migrations without downtime or disruption. So when the next big cryptographic shift hits, you’re ready, not racing to catch up.
The New Normal for CLM Starts Now
The 47-day mandate marks a turning point: TLS certificate management is no longer a set-it-and-forget-it task. It now demands visibility, automation, policy control, and crypto-agility.
This is your opportunity to move beyond manual workarounds, modernize CLM processes, and build future-ready crypto resilience.
Leading PKI teams aren’t struggling to modernize CLM processes on their own. Instead, they’re investing in purpose-built CLM platforms that scale with today’s demands.
AppViewX AVX ONE CLM is built for this new reality. It delivers the visibility, automation, and policy control that PKI and CLM teams need today to handle 47-day renewals and prepare for PQC.
Don’t wait for outages to force your hand. Learn how AVX ONE CLM can future-proof your certificate operations or request a demo to see it in action.
When operations stall at 30,000 feet, it’s rarely the plane’s fault. It’s the tower.
Earlier this year, radar failures at Newark Liberty International Airport grounded flights across the United States, not because the aircraft failed but because coordination broke down. A combination of aging systems, staff shortages and manual overrides created a chain reaction that left passengers stranded and schedules in chaos.
Enterprise IT isn’t so different. Cloud systems, data platforms, ERP modernizations and AI pilots are all taking off, but the control layer that’s supposed to orchestrate them is often still stuck on the ground.
When the automation “tower” fails, everything stops.
Who’s guiding your IT traffic?
CIOs and CTOs are moving fast. They’re focused on cloud-first, generative and agentic AI and workflow automation. Under all that progress is a quiet problem: The automation architecture powering it all hasn’t kept up.
Companies are building smarter systems but still relying on old job schedulers and hard-coded scripts to orchestrate between them. That creates delays, disconnects and blind spots. The sky might look clear now, but storms are coming.
The more systems you modernize, the more complex your operations become. And as this modernization goes faster and faster over time, the harder it is to coordinate workloads with high fidelity, especially across legacy systems that require custom-coded connectors, manual refactoring for continuous integration and automation designed for a different era. While it feels like you’re accelerating, legacy systems beneath the surface are quietly pulling the brakes.
Modernization without orchestration is like asking your control tower to manage new aircraft using equipment they’ve never trained on. The sky is getting more crowded, but the systems guiding the traffic are stuck in the past.
The illusion of progress
The problem with mainframes didn’t begin and end in the early 2000s. It lingered for decades. Even as businesses moved to the cloud in the 2010s, their most critical workloads and data remained locked inside monolithic, closed mainframe applications with no APIs, no agility and shrinking pools of technical talent.
During the COVID-19 crisis in 2020, the issue broke into public view when multiple U.S. states issued emergency calls for COBOL programmers to stabilize aging unemployment systems. Rather than isolated IT issues, these were architectural bottlenecks that made rapid response impossible. No DevOps, no iterative improvement, no access to real-time data. Just batch cycles, manual updates and fragile processes buried under decades of technical debt.
Today, many enterprises are facing the same limitations, just in a different disguise. Legacy job schedulers and automation tools are the modern mainframe, standing in the way of AI adoption, API-driven integration and autonomous orchestration across cloud-native ecosystems.
These schedulers were designed for predictable workflows and tightly coupled environments, not for hybrid cloud, continuous delivery and interconnected platforms like SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), Salesforce and Snowflake. As a result, they can’t scale, they can’t adapt and they certainly can’t keep pace with AI-driven transformation.
None of that works without modern orchestration via a control center that can coordinate business processes, eliminate human error, trigger event-based workflows and deliver consistent outcomes. Without it, transformation becomes a patchwork of short-term fixes and long-term headaches.
Static scheduling vs. intelligent orchestration
Orchestration requires controlling systems with precision and context, rather than just connecting them. That’s where event-based architecture becomes critical.
Unlike traditional scheduling, which runs on fixed times or batch jobs, event-driven orchestration allows your processes to respond dynamically to business and system events. You react to what’s happening now, not just what’s scheduled. Orders get fulfilled the moment inventory updates. Reports run the second data hits the warehouse. Downtime shrinks. You meet service-level agreements (SLAs).
At Redwood Software, we call this architecture an automation fabric: a unified layer that weaves together cloud and on-premises systems and AI innovation with full visibility, scalability and control. What makes it different?
Built for hybrid: Connect SAP, Oracle, cloud services and custom apps across environments.
Agentless integration: Connect systems without installing or maintaining local agents, so no need for custom scripts. Reduce risk, friction and security vulnerabilities.
AI-powered observability: Identify SLA risks and optimize performance before problems arise.
Unified monitoring: View everything through a single pane of glass.
Why would you custom-code or patch together manual workflows when intelligent orchestration can adapt autonomously?
Avoid a Newark moment: Your flight plan
Let’s say your global energy company is modernizing for sustainability and scale. You’re juggling regulatory demands, transitioning to RISE with SAP, piloting AI in financial planning and managing dozens of custom systems. But your core automation is still dependent on a legacy scheduler designed for batch processing and nightly jobs.
You’re not alone.
This is where modernization breaks down. It’s not in the cloud migration or the AI launch, but in what keeps it all together. By upgrading to a modern orchestration platform, your company could retire fragile custom scripts, slash risk across compliance-heavy processes and move faster with fewer people.
Rather than just picking a tool, it’s essential to choose a partner with a forward-looking vision. RunMyJobs by Redwood is designed to be air traffic control for the modern enterprise. Even if you’re not feeling the turbulence yet, the future is coming faster than you think.
Don’t wait until delays, outages or compliance gaps force your hand. Modern orchestration isn’t optional — it’s foundational.
See it in practice: Read our guide to learn how automation fabrics are helping teams orchestrate SAP and non-SAP data across industries.
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