Engineering May 29, 2026
How we got SSLBoard to 99/100
Getting to a 92 was easy. The climb from there to 99 meant CSP headers on 25 endpoints, dropping CBC ciphers on Cloudflare and our Go servers, and CAA records. Here's the work.
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Knowledge May 7, 2026
Your DNSSEC zone is signed. It's also an open book.
DNSSEC with NSEC lets attackers walk your entire zone and enumerate every hostname. NSEC3 fixes this. SSLBoard now tests for it, including across CNAME delegations to third parties.
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Help Apr 2, 2026
Cloudflare SSL/TLS Hardening: HTTPS, HSTS & TLS 1.3
Harden Cloudflare SSL/TLS in five steps: HTTPS redirects, HSTS, TLS 1.2 minimum, TLS 1.3, and Advanced Certificate Manager to eliminate weak ciphers.
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Knowledge Mar 29, 2026
TLS Glossary: SSL, Certificates, Cipher Suites, and More
Definitions for TLS, SSL, certificates, cipher suites, OCSP, HSTS, CAA, and more. A plain-English reference for understanding SSLBoard reports.
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Product Mar 27, 2026
CAA Policy Explorer: Map Certificate Issuance Across Subdomains
See which certificate authorities can issue for every subdomain. SSLBoard maps live CAA records with CT data to expose your full issuance policy.
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Knowledge Dec 2, 2025
PQC is Part of TLS Hygiene
Post-quantum cryptography is part of TLS hygiene alongside certificate expiry, key length, cipher strength, and protocol versions. Learn how to approach it.
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Opinion Jul 24, 2025
The Risks of Expired SSL Certificates for Your Business
Expired SSL certificates expose more than downtime risk: they reveal gaps in security, monitoring, and compliance. Here's what they say about your company.
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Product May 7, 2025
Agentless CLM: Secure by Design
SSLBoard finds and tracks certificates without agents on your servers. Learn about the security advantages of this agentless approach.
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Opinion Jan 5, 2025
Pre-Mortem Analysis: Case of an SSL Problem at X/Twitter
Twitter's SSL certificate nearly expired and reporting it was harder than expected. Explore SSL management challenges and preventing security lapses.
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Use-case Jan 2, 2025
How to spot a needle in a haystack
Missed SSL certificate deployments cause downtime and security risks. SSLBoard instantly detects renewed but unused certificates—be proactive, not reactive.
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Knowledge Nov 19, 2024
How Certificate Transparency enables Auditing
Certificate Transparency helps detect unauthorized SSL/TLS certificates. Learn how SSLBoard leverages CT logs to audit, track, and verify certificates.
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