SecureW2: Enhanced Platform Can Help With Short-Lived Certificates, Expand Digital Trust

The platform captures identity, device posture and risk signals from major identity access management, mobile device management and security vendors, the company says.

SecureW2, a provider of passwordless security and certificate-based authentication solutions, unveiled new features in its JoinNow platform.

The new capabilities are designed to “expand how digital trust is evaluated and enforced across human and nonhuman identities,” the company said in a news release.

Key new features include:

• Adaptive Defense: Validates live identity, device and security signals from existing integrations on active certificates and authentication
• CertIQ: Detects anomalies including certificate duplication or reuse
• Intelligence Briefs: Provides “context-driven” analytics and notifications. Alerts for misuse, advanced dashboards and more

“Enterprises are recognizing that trust must constantly be earned, not periodically revalidated,” said Bert Kashyap, CEO of SecureW2, in a news release. “We pioneered a model where certificates function as dynamic trust objects, self-adjusting in real time to reflect changing conditions. We’re excited about what this unlocks, not just for our customers today, but for how the industry can move toward a future where trust is monitored and enforced continuously.”

By making certificates dynamic trust objects, the enhanced JoinNow platform “replaces both static life cycles and the industry’s emerging short-lived certificate model,” SecureW2 said.

Earlier this year, the CA/Browser Forum set new guidelines that reduce the maximum allowed validity period of SSL/TLS certificates from the current 398 days to 47 days by 2029.

“While shorter life spans improve trust cycle management, they still rely on fixed intervals and periodic revalidation. SecureW2’s live, condition-aware approach ensures certificate validity is continuously aligned with current conditions, enabling automated suspension, reactivation, revocation, or reissuance without manual tracking or renewal workflows,” the company said in a news release.

The JoinNow platform “captures identity, device posture, and risk signals from major IAM [identity access management], MDM [mobile device management] and security vendors,” SecureW2 said.

JoinNow is built on SecureW2’s Dynamic PKI and Cloud RADIUS infrastructure.

“SecureW2’s Dynamic PKI and Cloud RADIUS services have significantly reduced the time and effort required to maintain our on-premises PKI solution. The platform's highly available and geo-redundant infrastructure, combined with zero-touch provisioning and certificate auto-renewal via API integrations, has proven to be extremely valuable,” said Rishabh Jain, senior manager of enterprise network services at Snowflake, in a news release.