Fujitsu and DigiCert to automate digital certificate renewals

Fujitsu has announced a strategic partnership with digital trust authority DigiCert. The collaboration will bring together the DigiCert ONE platform with Fujitsu’s consulting, integration and managed services to give its customers an automated approach to certificate lifecycle management that reduces operational complexity and strengthens resilience, according to Fujitsu.

The maximum lifespan of a public Transport Layer Security certificate, a critical component of online security, is set to shrink from the current 200 days to just 47 days by 2029. For businesses in Australia and New Zealand, this will significantly increase the risk of a single oversight causing a costly outage. And as digital certificates become increasingly critical to securing applications, devices, cloud environments, machine identities and even AI agent identities, organisations are under growing pressure to modernise how they manage trust.

The partnership aims to address critical industry-wide challenges by automating certificate lifecycle management, which reduces operational risk, prevents outages and lowers costs for IT and security teams.

Through the partnership, Fujitsu will deliver implementation, integration and managed services for DigiCert ONE, helping users automate certificate lifecycle management and improve visibility across certificate environments as the industry prepares for shorter Transport Layer Security certificate lifespans as well as post-quantum cryptography.

“Trust is everything in today’s digital world. A single, expired certificate can cause businesses immediate financial loss and lasting reputational damage,” said Peter Grassi, Chief Executive Officer of Fujitsu in Oceania. “Fujitsu’s partnership with DigiCert directly addresses that risk. We’re combining Fujitsu’s proven managed services with the world’s leading automation platform to deliver a single, unified solution. This approach eliminates the manual workload, prevents costly errors, and gives our customers the confidence to operate securely.”

“With certificate lifecycles shrinking to just 47 days by 2029, manual management has become unsustainable and incredibly risky,” said Daniel Sutherland, Area Vice President ANZ at DigiCert.

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