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Certificate Trust Solution

Certificates keep multiplying and scatter across Wi-Fi auth, secure email, approvals, online payments, login and TLS. Their lifecycle is fragile — one expired certificate can make an app unreachable or take a business offline. DigiCert Trust Lifecycle Manager brings every certificate into one platform for smart, centralized lifecycle management.

  • Agile centralized management
  • Automatic discovery & inventory
  • End-to-end request & deploy automation
  • Fits existing IT & approval flows

Background

Certificates are used in more and more scenarios across the enterprise, and the sheer volume of certificate management has become a real challenge for security administrators.

  • Ever-growing volume: certificates multiply faster than manual upkeep can handle.
  • Many scenarios: Wi-Fi auth, secure email, approvals, online payments, login and TLS all rely on them.
  • Why management matters: the lifecycle is fragile — one expired certificate can break an app or take a business offline.
  • Why centralize: certificates are identity credentials and must be managed centrally.

Use cases

Personal, organization, device, email and TLS certificates can all be managed intelligently. Integrates with ITSM, HSM, directory services, users/devices, web servers, load balancers and DevOps, with simplified management, notifications and pre-configured certificate profiles.

Highlights

Agility

Trust Lifecycle Manager brings efficient agility — no more one-by-one upkeep, so issues are resolved fast.

Automatic discovery

Scan a given scope, classify and manage certificates automatically — no manual imports, no overlooked expiry.

Full automation

ACME and other protocols remove most manual effort from request, deploy and renewal.

Fits your IT workflow

Integrates with ITSM, HSM, directory services and web servers, embedding into existing operations and approvals.

Architecture

CUSTOMER USERS & DEVICESCUSTOMER CORPORATE NETWORKDIGICERT PKI PLATFORMCUSTOMER ADMINISTRATORSUserVPN remote accessUserWeb user client authenticationPKI ClientS/MIME (signing/encrypting emails)DeviceDevice/Computer authentication (802.1x)PKI ClientSmart card Windows loginMobileMobile device managementVPN ServerWeb ServerEmail Server/GatewayActiveDirectory ServerUEM/MDM ServerNetwork DevicePKI Auto-EnrollmentServerPKI EnterpriseGatewayLocal KeyManagement ServerSCEP ProxyServerEscrow DBPKI ManagerSCEP/EST ServerCertificate ServicesAPI SOAP/RESTEnd-PointsValidationServices (CRL/OCSP)PKI ClientPKI ClientPKI ClientPKI ClientCertificate validation via OCSP/CRL lookup

Where it applies

Unified certificate management
Wi-Fi auth
Secure email
Payments
Login
TLS
Device certs
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