Report by CSC

The Hidden Risk of Managing Multiple SSL Providers

4 FINDINGSPublished Dec 3, 2025
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Key Findings

Certificate lifetimes are set to shorten to 200 days in 2026, 100 days in 2027, and 47 days by 2029.

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Let’s Encrypt, Google®, and Amazon® issued 66% of all analyzed SSL certificates.

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On average, a web outage caused by an expired SSL certificate can cost around $9,000 per minute.

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Nearly 60% of organizations use three or more SSL certificate providers.

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