Google, Inc. (NasdaqGS:GOOG) has warned Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ:SYMC) of imposed requirements applied to the Symantec Certificate Authority due to apparent malfeasence in managing the company's Certificate Authority infrastructure and specifically Certificates issued without notifying the holders of same.

The implications of the action are range far both in scope (related to the specific certificates under scrutiny ("Symantec performed another audit and, on October 12th, announced that they had found an additional 164 certificates over 76 domains and 2,458 certificates issued for domains that were never registered. - posted by Ryan Sleevi, Software Engineer at Google, Inc.)), and in Google's efforts to enforce the WebTrust in the Digital Certificate realm. This is why I say, Trust - But Verify...

"It’s obviously concerning that a CA would have such a long-running issue and that they would be unable to assess its scope after being alerted to it and conducting an audit. Therefore we are firstly going to require that as of June 1st, 2016, all certificates issued by Symantec itself will be required to support Certificate Transparency. In this case, logging of non-EV certificates would have provided significantly greater insight into the problem and may have allowed the problem to be detected sooner." - Posted by Ryan Sleevi, Software Engineer at Google, Inc.