Automate SSL certificate lifecycles across your enterprise server environment
Manage public certificates throughout your entire technology stack from a single automated platform, regardless of certificate origins and lifespans.
Discover, issue, deploy, renew, and manage all your SSL certificates from a single automation-focused platform
In today's enterprise, the combination of a growing number of servers, more complex networks, post-quantum security concerns, and shorter SSL/TLS certificate lifespans has driven the need for a modern approach to automating the lifecycle management of those certificates. Failing to do so can lead to security vulnerabilities and unplanned downtime, which can severely disrupt business operations and undermine digital trust across the organization.
Sectigo Certificate Manager (SCM) makes it simple by providing a Certificate Authority (CA) agnostic, automated certificate lifecycle management solution to secure every server and load balancer, ensuring consistent authentication across your entire enterprise environment.
Reducing certificate lifetime encourages automation and the adoption of practices that will drive the ecosystem away from baroque, time-consuming, and error-prone issuance processes.
Manual and spreadsheet-based certificate management is no longer an option for enterprises
Manually discovering and deploying every single certificate is time-consuming and risky. Rogue SSL certificates that are still in use without the knowledge of central IT teams can lead to unexpected expirations and costly outages. Even with the help of email notifications for expiring certificates, enterprises are at risk of disruptions due to gaps in ownership of certificate renewal and management caused by human error, vacation, or staff turnaround.
But that’s not all. Google and Apple are advocating for shorter public SSL certificate terms (respectively 90 and 47 days). This means that every SSL certificate will now need to be renewed more than 12 times per year. Furthermore, Apple has proposed decreasing certificate validity periods even further to just 47 days by 2028, potentially requiring renewals up to twelve times annually.
When certificate lifespans shrink, SSL automation will become crucial
Sectigo Certificate Manager offers SSL automation solutions tailored to meet today’s enterprise requirements:
Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME)
ACME is the preferred automation protocol for public certificate issuance and management. Google highlights the ACME protocol as core to the automation of digital certificate lifecycles and lays out the benefits of automation in the context of shorter certificate lifespans. These include increased resilience and crypto-agility, which can help organizations more easily transition to quantum-resistant algorithms.
ACME allows you to automate certificate issuance and installation for a wide range of web servers, load balancers, routers, firewalls, and other networking gear. Sectigo supports DV, OV, and EV certificate types via ACME and provides full control to IT administrators.
Proprietary automation tool
Using Sectigo’s Network Agent, you can automate the management of certificates for a variety of systems. The customer premise Network Agent is integrated with Sectigo Certificate Manager which runs in the cloud.
RESTful API
You might prefer to integrate applications more tightly with Sectigo, which is possible using Sectigo’s REST API. While this requires additional development on the application side, it allows you to customize your workflow based on your specific needs.
Seamless integrations with third party vendors
Sectigo’s trusted certificate management platform is built with compatibility in mind. Sectigo is continuously looking for opportunities to integrate with third party vendors to help customers achieve full SSL automation.
Certificate automation provides many benefits to modern organizations
Reduced outages and breaches
Reduce the risk of human error. Manual processes are prone to mistakes, such as misconfiguration or missing a renewal deadline, which can result in cybersecurity vulnerabilities, outages and breaches. Automation can help ensure that all digital certificates across a network are deployed correctly, and critical tasks such as key rotation, certificate revocation, and provisioning are performed promptly and without error.
Reduced cost
Spend less by automating certificate management. It could easily take over an hour for an administrator to manually renew and configure a single digital certificate, let alone the numerous certificates often required in an enterprise setting. This is incredibly costly at scale and error-prone. Automation removes the need for this time-intensive manual approach and allows administrators to focus on more important tasks.
Increased compliance
Comply with industry regulations and standards. Automated certificate management processes can provide organizations with better visibility into their certificate inventory, making it easier to track and manage certificates across the organization.
Enable scalability
Easily manage growing numbers of digital certificates and scale them across increasingly complex enterprise network environments.
Related Resources
The 47-Day Survival Guide
Apple’s 47-Day SSL certificate proposal: What to expect
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Lighthouse Global Case Study
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