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Let's Encrypt is moving to 45-day certificates before everyone else

The CA/Browser Forum set 47-day certificates as target for 2029. Let’s Encrypt decided to implement it a year earlier. In December 2025, Let’s Encrypt announced their roadmap to cut certificate lifetimes from 90 days to 45 days by February 2028, a full year ahead of the industry mandate. It’s exactly what we’d expect from the CA that made automation mandatory from day one.

Choosing the Right Business Internet Provider for Growth

Your internet connection is the quiet backbone of modern business. Cloud apps, video calls, payment terminals, and security cameras all run on it. When it fails, everything freezes-ITIC found that the average mid-size company loses about $300,000 for every hour offline in 2024. That's why choosing WOW! Business Internet (or a peer provider) is a mission-critical decision, not a utility line item. Use the framework below to align real-world performance and support with how your team works today-and how you plan to grow.

AI Can't Prove Compliance by Itself

AI is moving fast, and it’s tempting to believe it can automate software governance end to end. But compliance and security aren’t probabilistic problems. They don’t accept “close enough.” They don’t accept summaries. They can’t tolerate hallucinations. Governance depends on facts. Irrefutable, provable evidence of how systems actually changed.

Governance Doesn't Stop at Deploy

Most governance models focus on what happens before production. Approvals. Tickets. Change records. But software delivery doesn’t end at deploy. Runtime is where change management is validated. It’s where systems prove whether controls actually work and where risk becomes real. If governance stops at deployment, you’re not managing change. You’re managing intent. In this video, Mike Long (CEO & Co-founder, Kosli) explains why runtime is the true source of control, why approvals alone don’t reduce risk, and how modern teams build governance that reflects reality, not paperwork.

How Does Website Infrastructure Impact Operational Efficiency in Growing Teams?

Growing teams don't struggle because of big strategic questions first. They stumble on slow dashboards, broken logins, and sites that freeze during peak traffic. Website infrastructure either clears the runway or scatters debris across it. When systems respond fast, teams ship faster, support fewer fires, and argue less about whose tool failed. Poor infrastructure does the opposite. It multiplies tickets, adds delays, and burns morale. The pattern shows up in every scale-up: technology either amplifies discipline or exposes chaos instantly, sometimes in a single intense quarter of growth.

How to Use the Secure Vault in Uptime.com

In this tutorial, we explore Uptime.com's Secure Vault and how to securely create, edit, and manage your credentials. Learn how to access the Vault, add new Vault Items including Username/Password pairs, Certificates, Single Secret Tokens, and Time-based One-Time Passwords (TOTP), and use them in HTTP(S), API, Transaction, and Page Speed checks. Discover enhanced security features, including 256-bit AES-GCM encryption and zero-trust credential storage. We also cover REST API integration, variable usage, and user permissions.

Certificate permissions with CertKit Applications

When you’re managing a handful of certificates, one big list works fine. Add a few dozen more and things get messy. Add multiple teams or projects and you’ve got a problem. Who should have access to the production certificates? What about staging? Does the contractor working on the marketing site really need to see your internal infrastructure? CertKit now supports multiple applications from our roadmap to help you sort this out.