Turning 90-Day Certificates into a Reliable, Repeatable Service
March 04 | 12:00 PM ET
Jesse Ford
Automation Architect
Dan Sullivan
VP of Solutions Engineering
Public TLS certificates are moving to 90-day lifespans, and the operational cost is no longer theoretical. Manual tracking, fragmented inventories, and one-off scripts do not scale at this cadence. One missed renewal can lead to outages, SLA breaches, audit findings, and customer impact. For most teams, certificate rotation has quietly become a recurring source of risk, cost, and fire drills.
In this session, we will show how leading infrastructure and security teams are transforming certificate rotation from a reactive task into a standardized lifecycle service. Using Itential Lifecycle Manager, certificates are modeled as managed assets across environments, rotation policies are enforced by design, and every step of the lifecycle is orchestrated end to end with full visibility and auditability.
We’ll walk through a real-world certificate rotation workflow in action, from CSR creation and DNS validation through issuance, deployment to F5, and automated renewal. The demo is shown two ways: first as a production-ready automated rotation service, and then as an agentic version built with Itential’s Flow AI that accelerates workflow creation and proactively manages lifecycle actions while maintaining strict operational guardrails.
Beyond the technical workflow, this session focuses on outcomes. We will show how teams reduce manual effort, eliminate expiration-driven outages, improve compliance posture, and deliver certificate rotation as a reusable self-service capability. The result is faster execution, lower operational risk, and measurable value without adding headcount or complexity.
What you will see:
- How to centralize certificate visibility and enforce consistent rotation policies across environments
- How to automate certificate rotation across F5, DNS, and certificate authorities
- How Itential Flow AI reduces development time and enables proactive lifecycle actions with built-in controls
- How to package certificate rotation as a repeatable service that scales with 90-day certificates
Who Should Attend
- Platform, security, and infrastructure teams
- Teams responsible for certificate management, uptime, compliance, or automation initiatives
Why You Should Attend
- Learn how to turn certificate rotation into a reliable operational capability
- See how to prevent outages, reduce manual overhead, and keep every certificate compliant in a 90-day world
- Explore what certificant management can look like without fire drills or surprises