Microsoft is taking its time with the boot certificate rollout, but you don't have to. Activate the latest UEFI CA 2023 right now.

In June 2025, Microsoft announced that, in June 2026, it would begin deprecating Secure Boot certificates of Windows systems from 2011, which were superseded by their 2023 counterparts.

In brief: Secure Boot was originally introduced with Windows 8 as a firmware-based security feature designed to protect the OS from potentially malicious boot code. After more than 15 years, the ...

Secure Boot certificate upgrades is bad news for Windows 10 ...

Microsoft's Secure Boot certificates expire in June and need to be replaced. Microsoft provides a guide for server admins.

Updated firmware trust chains strengthen rootkit protection and zero-trust infrastructure security.

Ensure your PC boots safely before Secure Boot changes.

Windows systems are heading toward a trust-chain maintenance event that’s easy to overlook until it breaks something. Windows 10 and Windows 11 rely on three security certificates that begin expiring ...

Microsoft has launched a critical "generational refresh" of Secure Boot certificates to replace aging security keys that are nearing their end-of-life. This move is essential for maintaining the ...

Microsoft on Monday released a Secure Boot update ahead of the expiry of a root certificate first issued in 2011, warning ...

Facepalm: Microsoft and the PC industry developed the Secure Boot protocol to prevent modern UEFI-based computers from being hacked or compromised during the boot process. However, just a few years ...