Right now, your business is facing its toughest challenge, its not business as usual and it’s unclear for how long this situation will last. Your business is compelled to accelerate its digital transformation initiatives as your team is forced to work remotely all under tightened budgets.
Now is the time to rethink the way you do things, now is the time to focus on the area’s you can control and spend effort improving what you have. SSS – IT Security Specialists has been helping New Zealand businesses through thick and thin for over 30 years, and assures you that we are in this together and will do our best to support you with strategies to maintain and sustain your digital business to stay safe online all whilst keeping budgets in check.
A few simple SSL/TLS certificate management house – keeping steps will help clean out the clutter, allowing you to operate with improved efficiency and greater productivity.
DISCOVER
Very few organisations have a clear view of SSL/TLS certificates active and deployed. As various types of digital certificates are introduced to an organisation, it becomes difficult to track and manage certificates, particularly if they are issued from different certification authorities (CA’s). Discovery tools are available to scan your network, these tools can locate SSL/TLS certificates active and deployed. Once located you’ll be able to effectively manage SSL/TLS certificates into a single master management system and prevent unplanned SSL/TLS certificate outages.
CONSOLIDATE
Once you have the visibility you will be able to do a bit of tidying -up. Managing certificates issued from multiple CA’s is a recipe for disaster, manual management process will lead to high levels of cost and complexity. Stop buying SSL/TLS from multiple certificate providers. Consolidate your SSL/TLS license inventory to ONE Certificate Authority (CA). You will have a clearer picture of your SSL/TLS inventory and how it is being used which will enable you to accurately budget and save with volume discounts.
REUSE
Switch your management account to a subscription model so that you can issue and reuse SSL/TLS certificates throughout the account term. You can reuse the decommissioned licenses on certificates that are being used on a short-term basis e.g. for testing or load balancing. An account expiration date, allows you to renew your licenses simultaneously removing billing and management overhead, allowing you to accurate forecast on the total cost of SSL/TLS renewals for an annual period.
We are in this together and here if you need any assistance or support,
STAY SAFE, STAY ONLINE
