From the Desk of Leo Grove, SSL President and CEO
Right now, we’re at an interesting time when it comes to the intersection of disruption. We just wrapped up our last CA/Browser Forum F2F and the RSAC 2026 Conference. To say that we’re seeing an unprecedented level of change in the PKI and digital trust space is an understatement. We’re no longer looking at how updated policies and new regulatory standards impact certificate lifecycles, but how these seismic shifts will impact your organization’s operations.
Three major forces are converging right now that will fundamentally alter how businesses manage digital trust, and the window to prepare is narrowing. In my latest blog post, I discuss what these three things are, why they matter, and what steps you can take today for your business.
Read about the three factors reshaping digital trust.
Recent News: The Latest from the Digital Trust Landscape
What Business Leaders Need to Know Before Choosing Between Public and Private PKI
Most organizations secure their public-facing websites with digital certificates but overlook vital internal infrastructure, such as VPNs, device networks, and DevOps pipelines. Private PKI closes that gap by letting you issue and manage certificates on your own terms.
Discover which Private PKI option best fits your business here.
Implementation Spotlight: Practical Solutions for Real-World Challenges
On January 6, 2026, millions of Logitech peripheral users on macOS sat down to find their mice and keyboards had forgotten who they were. Custom button mappings were gone. Scroll wheel configurations had reset to defaults. Gesture shortcuts stopped responding.
The cause was a lapsed Developer ID certificate, the digital signature macOS uses to verify that software is legitimate. The certificate Logitech MacRumors allowed to expire secured inter-process communications within its Logi Options+ and G HUB configuration apps, causing them to fail on launch and, in some cases, trapping users in an endless boot loop.
The business impact: The disruption hit Logitech’s most loyal customers hardest. Power users who had invested time building complex profiles for creative work and productivity found themselves on bare defaults. The expired certificate also disabled the apps’ built-in update mechanism, so the problem could not be automatically fixed. Logitech was forced to publish manual patch installers and walk users through multi-step remediation, while users on older macOS versions were told a fix would come “at a later time.”
What would have prevented it: The certificate reaching its expiration on January 6, 2026, was a precise, predictable, and entirely avoidable moment. SSL’s code signing certificates, paired with an ACME Protocol solution, would have flagged this expiration weeks in advance.
The broader lesson: Code signing certificates are easy to overlook because they operate invisibly when they’re working. They don’t surface in uptime dashboards and rarely have a single clear owner as teams change. But when a code signing certificate lapses, the software it authenticates does not degrade gracefully. It stops. For companies where companion software is central to the product experience, that failure is indistinguishable from a product failure. Certificate hygiene is not an IT housekeeping task but a commitment to product reliability.
Past and Upcoming Events: Conferences, Standards Meetings, and more
Highlights from the CA/Browser Forum F2F in Houston, March 2026
SSL had the privilege of hosting the 67th CA/Browser Forum Face-to-Face (F2F) meeting in Houston from March 10 to 12, 2026. The group represented auditors, certificate authorities, browsers, certificate consumers, and other PKI-related organizations, which will reshape the future of digital trust.
Explore the discussion topics that will impact your organization in our full recap here.
The SSL Team’s 3 Key Takeaways from the RSAC 2026 Conference
Straight from the Moscone Center floor in San Francisco, the SSL team returns from the RSAC 2026 Conference with three key takeaways. Discover what they had to say and how these vital findings may impact your organization sooner than later. Read here.
April 18-22 – The 2026 NAB Show
May 13-14, 2026 – CSC Summit 2026
June 16-18, 2026: Unify 2026
Quick Links + What’s Next: Guides, Articles, and Industry Resources
- Preparing for Shorter Certificate Lifespans — With SSL/TLS certificates reducing to 200 days on March 15, 2026, revisit SSL.com’s guide to the certificate lifecycle reduction timeline and how to prepare your infrastructure.
- C2PA Enterprise Content Authenticity Solutions — How C2PA works and what enterprises need to implement content provenance.
- SSL.com ACME Integration Guide — Step-by-step automation of certificate renewal with the ACME protocol.
- CA/Browser Forum Ballot SC-081v3 — The full ballot text for the certificate lifetime reduction schedule.
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