Information Technology Services

Security Certificate Issue

Outage category: Website

Location: Specific Drupal based websites

Status: Closed

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

Customers received SSL errors when trying to reach certain websites.

Root Cause Analysis

Cause
Vendor SSL certificate expiration
Resolution

An emergency ticket was opened with firewall vendor. They removed the custom SSL cert and reverted sites to use their built-in, auto-renewing certificate.

Prevention

Vendor has issued new certs that auto-renew and is proactively searching for other websites in our account that may encounter this issue.