Measures reported by CASSSLCertTest

SSL certificates are important to maintain the confidentiality of data in an organization as well as maintain the organization's reputation and integrity. SSL certificates are small data files that digitally bind a cryptographic key to organization’s details. With the SSL certificates, data is encrypted prior to being transmitted via Internet, and the encrypted data can be decrypted only by the application server to which you actually send it. This ensures that the information you transmit is safe. Typically, the SSL certificates are prepared with a specific validity time beyond which the connections will no longer be secure. If the certificates suddenly expire, the users will no longer be able to access the applications. To avoid this, administrators should proactively identify certificates nearing expiry and renew the certificates before expiry. The CASSSLCertTest test helps administrators in this regard!

This test help administrators figure out the count of SSL certificates that are about to expire and the count of SSL certificates that have already expired. This detailed diagnosis of this test lists the name of the SSL Certificate that is about to expire/already expired. Using this test administrators can proactively figure out the SSL certificates that are nearing expiry and renew the certificated before expiry.

Outputs of the test: One set of results each for the Microsoft Certificate Authority Server that is being monitored.

The measures made by this test are as follows: