TLS certificate lifecycles are shrinking to just 47 days—a change that will overwhelm manual processes and expose critical gaps in visibility, governance, and uptime assurance. As certificate volumes multiply, the potential for outages, failed audits, and degraded customer experience increases exponentially. For financial institutions, this is not just a technical issue—it’s a business risk with regulatory, reputational, and operational consequences.

This executive brief from CyberArk CIO Omer Grossman outlines how CISOs and IT executives can lead through the disruption and turn risk into resilience, providing guidance on:

• The critical questions leaders should ask their teams to assess readiness
• Actionable insights to communicate TLS certificate risks to the Board and align certificate management with business resilience
• Next steps to evaluate preparedness, implement automation, and reduce exposure to operational and compliance risk

This executive brief is essential reading for:

• CISOs and Security Leaders managing enterprise security strategy and risk management
• IT and Infrastructure Leaders managing uptime, automation, and system resilience
• Compliance and Risk Officers overseeing regulatory readiness and audit preparedness
• Enterprise Architects and IAM Professionals designing scalable, secure machine identity frameworks
• Executives with digital or cloud transformation mandates ensuring operational continuity and trust amid rapid TLS changes

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