$15M Line Item That Doesn't Exist: The Invisible Certificate Management Tax and How Automation Eliminates 95% of It

Author:   Carrie Snider ,  Dan Cvrcek
Publisher:   Independently Published
Volume:   3
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9798269078885


Pages:   70
Publication Date:   19 October 2025
Format:   Paperback
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$15M Line Item That Doesn't Exist: The Invisible Certificate Management Tax and How Automation Eliminates 95% of It


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Your CFO can tell you exactly what the company spends on cloud infrastructure, software licenses, and salaries. Ask what you spend on certificate management, and they'll say: ""Nothing. We don't have a budget line for that."" They're almost certainly wrong. I watched executives discover they were hemorrhaging millions annually on something invisible. Not because of poor accounting-but because the costs masqueraded as something else. ""Slow project delivery."" ""Engineering overhead."" ""The way things work."" At a major European bank, certificate provisioning took weeks and became a high-risk item on project plans. Development teams reused certificates across services to avoid the pain of provisioning new ones. They built workarounds that created security and compliance risks. The cloud migration initiative-a strategic priority-stalled because the certificate bottleneck couldn't keep pace. When we automated it, requests that took weeks became instant. But more importantly, by analysing processes for certificate renewals, we discovered infrastructure dependencies that nobody knew existed. The telecom provider found another 20+ unknown certificate authorities, revealing shadow infrastructure. The bank accelerated their cloud migration by eliminating the bottleneck entirely. The insight that changed everything: The automation wasn't the most valuable part. The visibility was. Certificate management is just one example. How many other invisible costs drain your budget while evading traditional accounting? That question keeps CFOs awake at night. Once you learn to see what your systems hide, you can act decisively.

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Author:   Carrie Snider ,  Dan Cvrcek
Publisher:   Independently Published
Imprint:   Independently Published
Volume:   3
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.104kg
ISBN:  

9798269078885


Pages:   70
Publication Date:   19 October 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately.

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