Website Encryption & SSL Management

Short-lived certificates are now the norm, and the industry is moving toward even shorter validity periods. That means renewals happen far more often than a yearly diary note can track. Automation handles the routine renewals, and monitoring catches the edge cases that automation missed, such as a certificate on a device or service outside the main pipeline. Between the two, an expiry should never reach your visitors.

Supporting an obsolete protocol or a weak cipher does not break the site, so it goes unnoticed until an audit, a customer’s security questionnaire, or an attacker finds it. We set the configuration to a hardened baseline and keep it there as recommendations change, so your site does not slowly fall behind current practice. This matters more than it sounds: browsers and payment providers periodically retire support for old protocols outright, and a site that has drifted can suddenly stop working for a portion of users or fail a payment integration overnight. Staying current is cheaper than reacting to that.

We handle the certificate request and validation, whether you use a free automated authority through ACME or a commercial certificate authority for extended validation. Installation includes the full chain, because a missing intermediate certificate is a classic cause of “works in my browser, fails in others” trust errors that are hard to diagnose from the inside.

Wherever the platform supports it, renewals run automatically well before expiry. On top of that, independent expiry monitoring watches every certificate across your estate and alerts before anything lapses, so a certificate that sits outside the automated pipeline is still caught in time. This belt-and-braces approach is what makes a genuine no-expiry guarantee realistic rather than a slogan.

Certificate inventory across many domains

Businesses lose track of certificates once they have more than a handful of domains, subdomains and services. We maintain a single inventory of every certificate, its authority, its expiry and where it is installed, so nothing hides in a forgotten corner until it fails.

We manage wildcard certificates that cover all your subdomains and multi-domain SAN certificates that cover several distinct names, choosing the right structure for how your estate is laid out rather than issuing a sprawl of single certificates that each become their own renewal risk and their own thing to forget.

We enable TLS 1.2 and 1.3 and disable the older protocols and weak cipher suites that trip security scanners and expose known weaknesses. The target is a clean, modern configuration that earns an A or A+ on a Qualys SSL Labs test and passes the crypto checks on a compliance review.

HTTP Strict Transport Security tells browsers to only ever connect over HTTPS, closing the downgrade window. OCSP stapling speeds up the trust check without leaking your visitors’ browsing to the certificate authority. And we enforce HTTPS site-wide with proper redirects, so there is no plain-HTTP version of a page quietly serving content in the clear.

Mixed content and data at rest

A page served over HTTPS that pulls an image or script over HTTP is flagged as insecure and can break the padlock. We find and fix that mixed content. Where you store sensitive data, we also advise on and help implement encryption at rest and sensible key management, so encryption protects the data on disk and not only in transit.

A certificate installed without its full chain works in the browser the admin tested with, because that browser had the intermediate cached, and fails for a chunk of real visitors and for API clients that do strict validation. It is one of the most frequent trust errors we fix, and one of the hardest to spot from your own machine.

A site gets a certificate but never forces HTTPS, so the plain-HTTP version keeps serving pages and forms in the clear alongside the secure one. We put proper site-wide redirects in place and add HSTS so browsers refuse the insecure version outright.

The main domain is secured and a blog, shop or app subdomain launched later on plain HTTP or with its own soon-to-expire certificate that nobody is tracking. Bringing every subdomain into one managed inventory closes these blind spots.

Weak configurations that pass casually but fail an audit

A site can look fine in a browser while still supporting an obsolete protocol or a weak cipher underneath. That gap surfaces the moment a customer runs a scan against you or an assessor checks the crypto. We close it before it becomes an awkward conversation.

PCI DSS 4.0 requires strong cryptography and secure protocols for transmitting cardholder data, and it explicitly rules out the outdated protocols we disable. ISO 27001 covers cryptographic controls, and GDPR names encryption as an appropriate technical measure for protecting personal data. A managed configuration and a documented certificate inventory give you the evidence these reviews ask for, rather than a scramble to prove it when the auditor arrives.