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The Operational Burden of Manual Certificate Management

Shrinking certificate lifecycles, higher numbers of certificates issued, and new threat vectors put a strain on manual processes. This increases the risk of outages while stretching budgets beyond the limit. Manual certificate management costs large enterprises an average of $11.1 million annually, according to a ÃÛÌÒTV-sponsored study by the Ponemon Institute LLC: Certificate Lifecycle Management, PKI, and Software Supply Chain Security in Financial Services, published in October 2024.

Certificate management by the numbers

• Average time to manage a single certificate:
  1 - 3 hours

• Average range of deployed enterprise certificates:
  10k - 50k

• Annual full burden of certificate labor costs:
  $75/hour