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CertAlert can now be run as the discovery agent for our CertCentre product. If you have a CertCentre account, you can add your CertCentre account details to CertAlert and the results from CertAlert scans will be automatically sent to your CertCentre account. … Continue reading →

A new version of CertAlert is available and has the following changes/fixes: * If the server terminates the connection during TLS handshake, tries again with SSLv3 * Fixed a problem with SMTP STARTTLS support * Improved error message if run … Continue reading →

A new release of CertAlert is available. This version, in addition to providing a detailed CSV formatted report, creates a PDF formatted report that identifies the following certificate issues: Self Signed Certificates Short Key Certificates MD5 Certifictaes Expiring Certificates Expired … Continue reading →

Just a quick post to let you know that we have released CertAlert v1.9.5078 Changes include: * Built with .NET 2.0 rather than .NET 4.0 * Made report fields/columns configurable * Tests to demonstrate Server Name Indication (SNI) support * … Continue reading →

We all know that an expired certificate can cause many problems and potentially financial loss for your business. Helping to ensure your certificates are correct and haven’t expired is the reason we developed CertAlert. Another important part to keeping your … Continue reading →

For some time now CertCentre has let you bulk import certificates in PEM format via a file or a CertAlert report. Now it also lets a list of hostnames that you want to track to be uploaded. This should make tracking your SSL certificates even easi… Continue reading →

We have released a new verion of CertAlert that makes certificate discovery even faster. Please give it a try and let us know what you think. — Phil Continue reading →

CertAlert will, of course, find and monitor certificates used to secure HTTPS, SMTPS, LDAPS, POP3S etc. It will now also discover and monitor SSL/TLS certificates used with the STARTTLS SMTP extension as described in RFC 3207. See this new article… Continue reading →

The SSL certificate you want to check may not always be on the default https port of 443. For example, you may wish to check your LDAP server’s certificate on port 636. SSL Checker now allows you to specify the port by using any of the following f… Continue reading →

Just to let you know, we’ve made some updates recently to the SSL Certificate Discovery and Monitoring tool. These include: Pre Check option which can speed up the discovery phase Including the certificate in reports is now configurable Tidied up … Continue reading →