Sectigo Certificate Manager ROI

Are your digital certificates working smarter for you?

Calculate the hidden savings, streamlined workflows, and rock-solid security you’ve been missing.

How many digital certificates do you manage?

PUBLIC

10,000

PRIVATE

10,000

My private CA set up is on-prem*

What percentage of the private certificates you manage rely on manual processes?

Current time spent on manually managing private certificates for non-Windows applications

50%

100%

50 hrs/month

0 hrs/month

1,000 hrs/month

Empowers your IT team and increases your bottom line

Total time saved in provisioning

Annual time saved on non-Windows private certificate management

Total annual savings in labor

Timeline	Today	BY 2026	BY 2027	BY 2029
Certificate lifespan
Max. DCV reuse period

Your manual certificates will grow

Manual Certificates Multiplier	1X	2X	5X	12X
Total certificates manually managed

Labor impact: what to expect

assume 50% of provisioning time will be spent on each DCV

Presently, it may take your IT team a total of

to manually provision and validate all of the digital certificates

With certificates needing renewal every 47 days,

is the total hours your team will spend to provision and validate

Currently your organization spends approx.

in labor costs for manual certificate provisioning and validation

With certificates needing renewal every 47 days,

will be the total cost of labour for manual provisioning and validation

VALIDATION MULTIPLIER	1X	2X	5X	52X
Hours needed to renew and validate

Working days required for a full-time IT staff

% of full-time staff needed

Labor costs needed

Rising risk of certificate-related outages

Assume there is 1% error rate in your manual processes that could cause an outage.

Outage Costs Source: www.the20.com, "The Cost of IT Downtime", 98% of organizations say a single hour of downtime costs over $100,000, 81% said it costs their business over $300,000, and 33% of those enterprises reported that one hour of downtime costs their firms $1-5 million.

Currently your risk of potential outages is

caused by manual errors in certificate management

With certificates needing to renew every 47 days,

will be your certificate-related outages at risk

# Certificates at risk due to manual errors

Total cost of outages at risk

Presently the chance of an outage due to certificate issues is

31%

An outage can result in a potential revenue loss for your business

Source: www.the20.com, "The Cost of IT Downtime", 98% of organizations say a single hour of downtime costs over $100,000, 81% said it costs their business over $300,000, and 33% of those enterprises reported that one hour of downtime costs their firms $1-5 million.

$140,000

Your labor cost to remediate this outage is approximate

Reduce the risk of business disruptions or outages of

Based on research results from Hobson & Company, Sectigo ROI whitepaper

$ 595,000

appx. over 5 years

Reduce the risk of fines, penalties and remediation costs of

Based on research results from Hobson & Company, Sectigo ROI whitepaper

$ 850,000