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In healthcare, every second counts. From electronic health records (EHR) to patient portals and claims processing systems, secure digital communication is the backbone of delivering care and protecting sensitive patient information. That security relies on SSL/TLS certificates—and the rules governing them are about to change in a big way.
The CA/Browser Forum has approved a timeline to shorten SSL/TLS certificate validity to just 47 days by 2029, with the first reduction to 200 days starting in March 2026. For healthcare providers already struggling with certificate sprawl, outages, and manual renewals, this shift could multiply today’s problems sevenfold.
PacificSource, a not-for-profit health insurance provider in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, faced exactly these challenges—and their journey shows why preparing now is critical.
PacificSource’s IT team was stuck in a manual cycle:
In healthcare, outages are more than just an inconvenience—they disrupt patient access and create compliance risks. PacificSource realized that manual, ad-hoc certificate management was no longer sustainable.
To move from firefighting to future-proofing, PacificSource adopted AppViewX AVX ONE CLM, an automated certificate lifecycle management platform. With end-to-end automation, centralized inventory, and policy enforcement, AVX ONE CLM transformed certificate management from a reactive burden into a proactive strength.
Since using AVX ONE CLM, the PacificSource team has already reported:
As certificate lifespans shrink, AVX ONE CLM ensures that renewals happen automatically, at scale, eliminating the risk of missed expirations and downtime.
If yearly certificate renewals were a struggle, imagine doing it every 47 days. For an organization with 1,500 public and private trust certificates, that means going from 1,500 renewals per year to nearly 18,000 under the 47-day TLS mandate.
Manual processes won’t scale. Spreadsheets won’t cut it. Calendar reminders won’t prevent outages.
PacificSource’s decision to automate with AppViewX AVX ONE CLM didn’t just solve their immediate problems—it positioned them to thrive as certificate lifespans shrink. With policy-driven automation and centralized visibility, the IT team can handle short-lived certificates at scale without disruption, downtime, or compliance risk.
The move to 47-day TLS certificates is inevitable. The only question for all organizations across all industries is whether they will be ready. PacificSource’s journey demonstrates the value of acting early— replacing manual work with automation, eliminating outages, and building resilience into their security operations.
Download the full PacificSource case study to see how they transformed certificate management and prepared for the future of short-lived certificates with AppViewX AVX ONE CLM.
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Today’s IT infrastructures are overrun with machine or non-human identities. They are everywhere—from on-prem data centres and cloud platforms to DevOps pipelines, IoT devices, and APIs. These identities rely on digital certificates to establish trust and secure communications.
But there’s a catch: If you don’t know where your digital certificates are, you can’t manage them. And if you can’t manage them, you’re risking service outages, security breaches, and compliance failures.
That’s why certificate discovery is the critical first step in any effective certificate lifecycle management (CLM) strategy.
For PKI admins, maintaining visibility into every certificate across the organisation is both a priority and a persistent challenge. As IT environments grow more hybrid and distributed, manually tracking thousands of certificates through spreadsheets or siloed CA tools becomes impractical.
In short, automated certificate discovery ensures every certificate, regardless of where it lives, is accounted for, assessed, and ready for proactive management.
AVX ONE CLM is a certificate lifecycle management solution that gives PKI teams the visibility, automation, and policy control needed to manage certificates across complex hybrid multi-cloud environments. It is designed to simplify PKI and certificate lifecycle management, ensuring trust for machines, workloads, applications, cloud services, containers, APIs, and more.
At the heart of AVX ONE CLM are certificate discovery and inventory capabilities.
AppViewX provides built-in certificate discovery connectors for a wide range of commonly used systems and platforms, including renowned brands such as F5, Linux, and Tomcat, among others. These connectors are designed to scan and fetch certificate data directly from devices, helping you eliminate blind spots with minimal configuration.
However, in the case of legacy devices—especially those that are end-of-life (EOL), end-of-support (EOS), or highly customised—certificate discovery can be challenging due to limited documentation or lack of accessible lab infrastructure. To address this, AppViewX provides a flexible solution through its AppViewX Connectors feature.
This powerful feature empowers users to perform customised certificate discovery, tailored to their specific requirements. All it requires is access to the target devices and their certificates, either through API or CLI. With this minimal requirement, discovery can be quickly and seamlessly executed. In addition to the pre-built connectors AppViewX provides, you can easily create your custom connectors to support unique or unsupported systems.
This offers greater flexibility to support any legacy or new line of network devices that may not be readily accessible.
AppViewX further streamlines the discovery process with advanced capabilities:
For PKI administrators, certificate discovery is a foundational requirement for operational resilience and security. Without it, automation falls apart. With it, you gain the visibility and control needed to manage and scale trust across your organisation.
AppViewX AVX ONE CLM makes certificate discovery seamless with a rich library of native connectors and the flexibility to build your own. Whether you’re managing modern workloads or navigating legacy infrastructure, AppViewX helps you discover, manage, and control every certificate, ensuring authenticity and security of your machine identities.
While discovery is the first step, it’s only one part of the broader certificate management process. AVX ONE CLM goes well beyond discovery—offering centralized visibility, end-to-end lifecycle automation, policy-driven control, and crypto-agility to manage machine and non-human identities securely and at scale.
Download the Smart Discovery Solution Brief to learn more about automated certificate discovery from AppViewX.
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Cryptography plays a critical role in securing data, protecting privacy, and maintaining trust across systems. From securing web traffic and APIs to software updates and IoT communications, digital certificates and keys underpin modern cybersecurity infrastructure.
Yet, many organizations are struggling to manage cryptographic assets efficiently. A complex digital landscape, fragmented tools, manual processes, and evolving threats, such as the threat of quantum computing to current cryptography, are making certificate lifecycle management (CLM) increasingly challenging and risky.
To thrive in this environment, enterprises need crypto-agility: the ability to quickly adapt to cryptographic changes with minimal disruption to operations or security.
At AppViewX, we’ve helped leading global enterprises move from reactive, disjointed certificate management to proactive, scalable, and resilient cryptographic operations, guided by our Path to Crypto-Agility, powered by AVX ONE CLM.
AppViewX AVX ONE CLM is a comprehensive certificate lifecycle management solution that helps you discover, inventory, manage, and govern all public and private trust certificates in your infrastructure—all in one place. With complete visibility, end-to-end automation, and robust policy control, AVX ONE CLM streamlines certificate operations across machines, applications, workloads, and cloud services, in turn, strengthening the digital security posture.
Here’s how you can achieve crypto-agility across four stages with AVX ONE CLM.
You can’t protect what you can’t see.
The starting point of crypto-agility is complete visibility into all digital certificates and keys across your organization. A lack of visibility leads to blind spots, which can result in expired certificates, service outages, and compliance violations.
A holistic, always-updated view of your cryptographic estate—your single source of truth. With complete visibility, your teams can proactively manage certificate lifecycles, prevent outages, and eliminate unnecessary downtime.
Security shouldn’t be a bottleneck. With the right tools, it becomes an enabler.
As development cycles accelerate, especially with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines, the demand for digital certificates has skyrocketed. However, manual certificate processes simply can’t keep up. DevOps teams need rapid, secure methods for provisioning and deploying certificates without relying solely on central IT teams. Once issued, certificates must also be deployed, installed, and updated across a diverse range of systems. Automation is the key to both speed and security in this process.
Faster innovation, fewer bottlenecks, and fewer incidents—all backed by secure, end-to-end certificate lifecycle automation. Whether you’re supporting agile development or maintaining hybrid infrastructure, AVX ONE CLM helps you move quickly without compromising security or compliance.
Automation without governance leads to chaos.
Automating your certificates is only half the battle. The next step is to enforce policies that manage them securely and consistently. Without standardized policies, certificate issuance and usage become ad-hoc and error-prone. Regulatory frameworks, such as NIST, PCI DSS, and NIS2 also demand formal cryptography governance.
With automated policy enforcement, compliance becomes part of your everyday operations. Audits are simpler, trust is stronger, and security risks are reduced—all while preserving the speed and agility your business needs.
Crypto-agility is not just about speed—it’s about resilience
The cryptographic landscape is shifting fast. TLS certificate lifespans are shrinking drastically, widely used encryption algorithms like RSA and ECC are nearing deprecation, the urgency around post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration is intensifying, and compliance mandates are constantly evolving.
To stay secure and compliant through these changes, your organization must be ready to adapt without scrambling. That’s what crypto-agility enables you to do: pivot without panic.
In a world where cryptographic change is constant, crypto-agility is a necessity for resilience, compliance, and long-term security. Whether you’re facing a tough audit, dealing with expired certificates, or preparing for a quantum-secure future, you need a CLM strategy that’s built for change.
With AppViewX AVX ONE CLM, you get complete visibility, intelligent automation, and centralized control—everything you need to future-proof your cryptographic operations and reduce risk without slowing down your business.
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