How businesses can prepare for the 47-day certificate lifecycle: What it means and recent updates

Apple’s proposal to shorten public SSL/TLS certificate validity to 47 days (with DCV reuse limited to 10 days) aims to improve security by reducing the window of exposure for compromised certificates and accelerating the need for automated certificate lifecycle management; organizations should audit their certificate inventory, adopt ACME-compatible automation and centralized management, and train teams now to avoid service disruptions if the change is adopted by the CA/B Forum by 2028.