The 47-Day Certificate Lifespan Is Coming: What SC-081 Means for Azure Teams
SC-081 cuts public TLS certificate lifetimes to 200 days in March 2026 and 47 days by 2029. What it does to an Azure estate and what to fix now.
Practical guides for Azure secret management, credential rotation, and cloud security.
SC-081 cuts public TLS certificate lifetimes to 200 days in March 2026 and 47 days by 2029. What it does to an Azure estate and what to fix now.
What NIS2 Article 21(2)(h) requires for cryptography, what auditors ask for, and how to produce the evidence from an Azure estate.
B2C is closed to new tenants and migrations to Entra External ID take years. Monitor and rotate App Registration credentials on both sides.
Ask Claude or ChatGPT which Azure secrets expire this month. A read-only MCP connector that answers in plain language and never sees a secret value.
Subsidiaries, acquisitions and regional tenants are secret-management blind spots. Discover, monitor and rotate across every Entra tenant from one place.
When a B2C signing certificate or identity-provider secret expires, every customer is locked out at once. What it costs and how to stop it.
Free CLI that audits every Azure Key Vault for expiring secrets, certificates and security misconfigurations. pip or Homebrew, results in a minute.
How to rotate Azure Key Vault secrets without downtime: automation patterns, rotation cadence, and ending manual credential management.
Find every expiring secret, key and certificate across all your Azure subscriptions with Azure CLI, PowerShell, Resource Graph or a free scanner.
Take control of App Registration secrets and certificates that pile up across your Entra tenant, with lifecycle strategies that work at scale.
Access policies or Azure RBAC for Key Vault? When to use each, how to migrate, and the pitfalls that bite in production.
Managed Identity or Service Principal? The differences, when each is right, and how to remove credential management wherever you can.
Step-by-step: alert on expiring Key Vault secrets, keys and certificates with Event Grid, Azure Monitor and Azure Policy.
What happens when an Azure certificate or secret expires in production, what it costs in real money, and how to make sure it never does.
Keep secrets in sync across Azure Key Vault, AWS Secrets Manager and GCP Secret Manager for disaster recovery and multi-cloud failover.