A Chat With Kevin Weiss, CEO Of Sectigo On How The World’s Leading Certificate Authority (CA) Is Changing Into A Comprehensive Digital Trust Powerhouse

Tell us about Sectigo.

Sectigo is, at its core, the bedrock of digital trust. 

If you’ve browsed the web, made a secure payment, or accessed a corporate network today, there’s a high probability we were the ones quietly ensuring that connection was safe. 

We are the most innovative provider of certificate lifecycle management (CLM), helping organisations secure human and machine identities while reducing the hidden risks of modern digital trust. As certificate volumes grow and lifespans shrink, unmanaged certificates are becoming a source of outages, compliance exposure, and operational disruption. 

We are one of the world’s largest and most reputable commercial certificate authorities (CAs), with over 700,000 customers, including 65% of the Fortune 500, and more than 20 years of experience in establishing cryptographically secure identities.

What makes Sectigo unique?

The challenge organisations are now facing is no longer just managing certificates, it’s managing them at scale. Manual processes can’t keep up with certificate sprawl, shorter certificate lifespans, and accelerating cryptographic change.

What sets Sectigo apart is our ability to turn CLM into a coordinated, scalable system, delivering simplicity at scale.

With Sectigo Certificate Manager (SCM), we enable orchestrated automation, which coordinates certificate activities across systems, teams, and environments rather than automating isolated tasks. This enables teams to manage digital trust as a cohesive operational function, reducing complexity while improving resilience and control at scale.

The outcome is simple, consistent operations at scale, reduced risk, and the ability to manage digital trust as a cohesive function rather than a fragmented set of activities.

How has the move to 47 day certificates changed your industry?

This is one of the most significant shifts the industry has ever experienced. As certificate lifespans shrink, organisations are now a part of a world where certificates renew every six months (200-day certificates), and by March 2027 will renew every three months (100-day certificates), and eventually monthly renewals (47-day certificates) by 2029.

This shift fundamentally changes the operating model for certificate management and the entirety of the digital trust ecosystem. What was once an occasional task is becoming a continuous process. Organisations can no longer manage trust at a human pace, they need systems that operate at machine speed.

For customers, this shift is less about doing things faster and more about eliminating entire categories of hidden risk. When orchestrated automation is in place, outages, compliance gaps, and operational disruption are dramatically reduced.
 

How has Sectigo evolved with the certificate management space?

We’ve evolved from being ‘just’ a certificate provider to a CLM platform for managing digital trust at scale, bringing simplicity to an increasingly complex problem.

As machine identities have expanded across cloud, AI-driven workflows, containers, and connected devices, CLM has become far more complex and far more critical. We’ve responded by building a cloud-native CLM platform that moves beyond renewals to coordinate the full lifecycle, from discovery and deployment through renewal, replacement, governance, and crypto-agility.

This shift reflects where the market is heading: from isolated certificate tasks to a more integrated, orchestrated approach to managing trust across the enterprise.

Why is Sectigo making this change now?

Because the pace of change in digital trust has accelerated beyond what traditional approaches can support.

Shorter certificate lifecycles, increasing certificate volumes, and the growing urgency of post-quantum readiness are creating a level of complexity that most organisations aren’t equipped to manage manually.

At the same time, visibility gaps across environments are introducing real business risk, from outages and failed transactions to compliance exposure and customer impact.

Sectigo’s evolution is a proactive step to help organisations move ahead of that risk, with a simpler, more controlled way to manage certificate lifecycle operations as scale and change continue to expand.

What can we expect from Sectigo in the future?

You can expect us to continue leading the evolution of automated CLM.

That includes advancing how organisations prepare for post-quantum cryptography (PQC), while also expanding how automation is applied across increasingly complex environments.

We’re focused on making digital trust more seamless, more visible, and easier to control at scale, so organisations can adapt as new technologies, identities, and cryptographic standards emerge.

Ultimately, our goal is to make managing digital trust as reliable and predictable as any core infrastructure, something organisations can depend on without the operational burden.