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

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

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that, in June 2026, it would begin deprecating Secure Boot certificates of Windows systems from 2011, which were superseded by their 2023 counterparts.

Microsoft reminds everyone that the initial wave of Secure Boot certificates, dropped in 2011, are due to expire.

Microsoft has begun rolling out updated Secure Boot certificates through monthly Windows updates to replace the original 2011 certificates that will expire in late June 2026. Introduced in 2011, ...

Microsoft has announced that the original Secure Boot certificates that were issued when the feature first began shipping 2011 are set to expire this June, and that PCs which are not up to date will ...

Microsoft is making it easier for IT admins to monitor the status of Secure Boot on Windows devices across their organization. Secure Boot has been a pretty hot topic for Microsoft lately, especially ...

Get ye to Windows Update, because there's a good chance you've got new Secure Boot certificates to install. Microsoft just announced that it will be refreshing those certificates, which were ...

In this post, we will show you how to disable Secure Boot in Hyper-V and what to do if Hyper-V is not booting when Secure Boot is enabled. If you’re running a Generation 2 virtual machine in Hyper-V ...

Windows 8 is remembered most for its oddball touchscreen-focused full-screen Start menu, but it also introduced a number of under-the-hood enhancements to Windows. One of those was UEFI Secure Boot, a ...

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 ...

Devices that don’t receive new Secure Boot certificates may miss out on future security updates. Devices that don’t receive new Secure Boot certificates may miss out on future security updates. is a ...