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Q: does my organisation need to be re-validated to issue S/MIME certificates after August 28th, 2023?
Yes, due to slight differencedifferences in the industry requirements the set of 'authentic information sources' that Sectigo has to use for organisation validation is different. Whereas for SSL validation an independent information source may be used, for S/MIME only government agency sources and Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) data references are allowed. This means Sectigo has to do re-validation. This is not triggered automatically - subscribers should initiate this via SCM. Details on how to do that will be provided before the end of August 2023.