Setup SSL and Forget About It?

That’s what most people are sold: “Automate it and never think about SSL again.”

It sounds great until something slips through. A certificate that didn’t renew. A crontab that failed. A weak cipher still enabled. An old TLS version exposed. These aren’t theoretical problems; they happen all the time, even in environments with the best automation.

The truth is: automation solves issuance and renewal but not oversight

What’s missing is visibility. Knowing what’s really deployed, where, what’s expiring soon, and what’s vulnerable today.

That’s where SSLBoard comes in, not to replace automation but to complement it. Think of it as your second set of eyes:

• Automatically discover what’s out there
• Catch forgotten or misconfigured certificates
• Detect weak practices like old protocols or ciphers
• Help you prove your TLS landscape is clean, secure, and current

Good TLS/SSL hygiene is “setup, automate, and monitor”.

Illustration by Grok4