Enterprises face increasing challenges with certificate management

A report released today finds that approximately 60 percent of businesses are using threeor more secure sockets layer (SSL) providers and suggests a lack of centralized processes for SSL certificate management. The study from domain security company CSC analyzed usage trends and patterns for more than 802,000 digital certificates linked to 2.4 million domains. It finds domain validated (DV) certificates account for three-quarters (73.4 percent) of certificates while organization validation (OV) certificates represent nearly a quarter (24.6 percent). Extended validation (EV) certificates account for less than two percent (1.9 percent). With low-cost, easy-to-obtain DV certificates dominating the market among organizations,… [Continue Reading]