Historically, Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificate lifecycle management has been a labor-intensive, recurring process. For each certificate, administrators must generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR), submit it to a Certificate Authority (CA), verify domain ownership, and manually install the issued certificate. Repeating this workflow prior to expiration introduces an operational burden that scales significantly across multi-domain environments.
This operational overhead is set to escalate under upcoming industry standards. The CA/Browser Forum, the global regulatory body governing digital certificates, has resolved to progressively reduce certificate lifespans, ultimately shortening validity periods to just 47 days by March 2029.
The Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol resolves this issue by fully automating the certificate lifecycle, from domain validation and issuance to recurring renewals, without requiring human intervention.
AudioCodes SBCs now support ACME. Join us for a live webinar and learn how this functionality is defined, implemented and configured on an AudioCodes SBC.