FACT
$15 MILLION
is the average annual cost of recovering from certificate expirations.
Source: CSO “Expired certificates cost businesses $15 million per outage” September 30, 2015.
FACT
77%
of companies have experienced outages in the past 24 months due to expired certificates.
Source: Keyfactor Blog “Introducing Keyfactor’s 2023 State of Machine Identity Reportthreat” March 21, 2023.
FACT
45%
Gartner predicts an increase of 45% in cyber-attacks by the end of 2025.
Source: Click SSL ”18 Top SSL Statistics Which Shows Why Website Security Matters” August 10, 2023.
FACT
Quantum
computing will allow hackers to break encryption faster. Replacing certificates much more frequently can avoid that threat.
Source: Security Magazine “It’s time to prepare for quantum computing’s impact on DNS security” February 14, 2023.
FACT
31%
Cybersecurity attacks per company increased in one year.
Source: ClickSSL ”18 Top SSL Statistics Which Shows Why Website Security Matters” August 10, 2023.
FACT
23,000 Keys
On average every company has 23,000 certificate keys and 54% of IT leaders do NOT know where these keys are stored or how they are managed.
Source: Click SSL ”18 Top SSL Statistics Which Shows Why Website Security Matters” August 10, 2023.
FACT
69%
of employees have bypassed their organization’s cybersecurity guidance in the last year.
Source: Gartner ”Gartner Predicts Nearly Half of Cybersecurity Leaders Will Change Jobs by 2025”February 22, 2022.
Facts
Wildcard
certificates (which handle unlimited domains - aka " * " certs) are no longer considered secure on the Internet.
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