Who Decides the Internet’s Trust Rules? Inside the CA/B Forum with Arvid Vermote
September 11, 2025
In this episode of Trust.ID Talk: The Digital Certificate and Identity Security Podcast, host Michelle Davidson is joined by Arvid Vermote, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at GlobalSign, to dive into the Certificate Authority/Browser Forum (CA/B Forum), the decision-making body behind the rules that keep the internet's trust backbone secure and how the decision was made for SSL/TLS certificate validity periods to reduce to 47 days by 2029.
In this episode of Trust.ID Talk: The Digital Certificate and Identity Security Podcast, host Michelle Davidson is joined by Arvid Vermote, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at GlobalSign, to dive into the Certificate Authority/Browser Forum (CA/B Forum), the decision-making body behind the rules that keep the internet's trust backbone secure and how the decision was made for SSL/TLS certificate validity periods to reduce to 47 days by 2029.