To comply with recent changes to TLS certificate standards, DigiCert has begun shortening the lifespan of SSL certificates. As a result, the following SSL certificate changes are in effect for all VIP Service endpoints:
Important: VIP certificates issued from your VIP Manager Tenant are not affected at this time.
Additional information: TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days.
According to the voting panel: "...shorter lifetimes are necessary for many reasons, the most prominent being this: The information in certificates is becoming steadily less trustworthy over time, a problem that can only be mitigated by frequently revalidating the information."
This change applies to all Symantec VIP endpoints, including:
This will result in an increase in certificate rotation frequency as validity periods are reduced. These rotations occur during routine monthly VIP maintenance windows.