Flexible SAN Licensing Enables Scalable, Cost-Efficient Certificate Management Ahead of 47-Day Validity Transition

As businesses worldwide prepare for the shift to shorter certificate lifecycles — culminating in 47-days by 2029 — GMO GlobalSign, Inc., a global Certificate Authority (CA), today announced enhancements to its Subject Alternative Names (SAN) Licensing solution. Designed to support enterprises at every scale, SAN Licensing offers a fixed-price model that simplifies certificate management and reduces waste as organizations adapt to increasingly higher certificate issuance volumes.

Available through GMO GlobalSign’s Managed SSL and Atlas (a Digital Identity Platform), SAN Licensing allows companies to set a maximum number of unique SANs or Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDNs) across all SSL/TLS certificates. This approach ensures flexibility while enabling organizations to optimize costs by avoiding duplicate charges for the same SANs used across multiple certificates.

Depending on the GMO GlobalSign platform customers utilize, a SAN certificate — also known as a Multi-Domain certificate — secures up to either 100 or 999 domain names, subdomains, or public IP addresses with a single certificate and IP address. This model has become a standard for businesses seeking efficiency and simplicity in securing multiple hostnames.

With the CA/B Forum vote in April setting the stage for 47-day certificate validity by March 2029, many IT and security teams are focused on mitigating the operational impact of increased certificate turnover. SAN Licensing can ease this transition by supporting automated issuance workflows and reducing overall certificate management complexity. While 47-day certificates increase the quantity required, SAN licensing removes the need to count certificates, allowing users to focus on the domains they need to secure.

GMO GlobalSign’s SAN Licensing enables customers to reissue certificates under a SAN license without incurring the cost of each certificate - ideal for the regular reissue of certificates under the gradual reduction of certificate life spans. Other benefits include:

• Licenses can be reallocated when certificates are no longer needed, minimizing waste and reducing spend.
• GMO GlobalSign’s SAN Licensing is enabled for all TLS certificate types and optimized for automated issuance and renewal through the ACME protocol.
• Organizations can issue unique certificates per server, enhancing security without the need to reuse keys.

“Whether managing five domains or 5,000, GMO GlobalSign’s SAN Licensing provides consistent and predictable pricing while supporting rapid certificate rotation,” said Gregory Tomko, Director of Product Management, GMO GlobalSign. “This offering addresses the growing need for efficient, automated certificate management in an era of shortened lifecycles.”

Since its introduction in 2017, SAN Licensing has been adopted across industries and is particularly beneficial for:

• Temporary environments for product demonstrations, testing, or promotions.
• DevOps teams managing ephemeral environments.
• Large enterprises with redundant, highly available infrastructure.
• Service providers dynamically scaling their infrastructure to match demand.

Organizations seeking to streamline SSL/TLS management and prepare for future lifecycle reductions can learn more about SAN Licensing by contacting GMO GlobalSign or visiting https://www.globalsign.com/en/managed-ssl/san-licensing.

About GMO GlobalSign

As one of the world’s most deeply-rooted certificate authorities, GMO GlobalSign is the leading provider of trusted identity and security solutions enabling businesses, large enterprises, cloud-based service providers, and IoT innovators worldwide to conduct secure online communications, manage millions of verified digital identities and automate authentication and encryption. Its high-scale Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and identity solutions support the billions of services, devices, people, and things comprising the IoT. GMO GlobalSign is a subsidiary of GMO GlobalSign Holdings, K.K., a member of the Japan-based GMO Internet Group, and has offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit https://www.globalsign.com.

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