Once I'm told I need to start evaluating ad selecting alternative automation software to the one provided by the certificate provider to keep my 90 day expiry "

Once I'm told I need to start evaluating ad selecting alternative automation software to the one provided by the certificate provider to keep my 90 day expiry "free" certs alive - I'm just gonna tell the boss "Fuck that, lets just buy a 12 month cert again and add this onto the calendar like all the other annual updating crap we've always dealt with." I'm with the OP here. They claimed they were going to simplify and solve a problem I had "OMG, remembering to renew certs every year???". They've replaced it with a three tier set of new unknown problems that fingerpoint at each other claiming not our fault!" and potentialy explode in my face at least four times as often. Sorry, but "free" is too expensive for that.