LinkedIn Faux Pas Shines Light on Certificate Management | Qualys
Summary: LinkedIn users on Tuesday received browser warnings about an insecure connection after an expired TLS certificate, which LinkedIn described as a "brief delay" in updating a digital certificate and said did not affect member data. Qualys SSL Labs' SSL Pulse, monitoring 150,000 popular websites, rated about 33% as having inadequate security in its May report, with a few thousand of those having expired certificates.
What's compelling: A Ponemon Institute survey of almost 600 IT and security professionals found 74% had unanticipated downtime or outages from digital certificates, and 71% believe their organizations do not know how many keys and certificates they have.
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