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Certificate Life Cycle
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In this stage, CSR is generated by the user and certificate is provided or issued by a Certificate Authority (CA)
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In this phase the issued certificate is constantly monitored for any existing criticality and for ensuring if the certificate is being correctly used in the enterprise systems’ or not.
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In this phase, when the certificate is about to expire, CertSecure Manager allows you to choose whether to renew it or not. Based on your preferences and the type of certificate being managed, you can create policies that allow certificates to automatically renew or not. The Auto Renew option can also be selected during CSR generation for automatic renewal of the certificate.
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If you want to renew a certificate, you can use CertSecure to generate the renewal request. If a certificate has reached the end of its lifecycle and does not require renewal, you can revoke or retire it to ensure that it is no longer used in production systems.
The workflow feature will allow to manage approval requests. User can manage and monitor pending approval request or view the history of approved or rejected requests.
CertSecure allows its administrators to define and enforce various policies which helps team in adhering to the organization’s business processes and manage reports such as certificate inventory report, Expiration report, Signing algorithm report, Validity period report.
CertSecure Manager comes with built-in alerts for various events like upcoming certificate expiry. These alerts can be displayed on the dashboard, delivered via emails for manual actions or Simple network management protocol (SNMP) traps for automation.
CertSecure’s PKIaaS enables businesses to quickly set up a robust and secure CA hierarchy, as well as other crypto policies, without having to invest in expensive PKI hardware. Secure CAs are hosted in the cloud thereby allowing all procedures to be carried out virtually while remaining safe and secure
All certificate and configuration change events are logged which makes it easier for businesses to comply with industry compliances, both internally and externally.
CertSecure provides automation right from certificate issuance or renewal to provisioning of the certificate to the application using it.
With this feature of CertSecure, enterprises can design and manufacture devices securely. Device manufacturers can request certificates and provide unique trusted identities onto connected devices.
CertSecure uses a multi-layered and granular access control approach where access to every functionality in the certificate lifecycle (monitoring, renewal, issuance, expiry, provisioning) can be configured based on the role of a user or person.
This feature of CertSecure allows enterprises to get centralized control of all asymmetric and symmetric keys in multi-cloud environments.
Encryption Consulting’s CertSecure makes it easier for enterprises to securely sign any code. It also helps in securing code-signing keys in built-in cloud HSM
In CertSecure Manager, service mesh adds reliability, Observability and security features by managing the way communication happens between services.
CertSecure helps in better understanding enterprise’s Kubernetes environment by constantly comparing it with customisable 50+ predefined rules for any misconfigurations which may pose security threat to the organisation.
Encryption Consulting assisted a Retail customer to implement our personalized certificate lifecycle management solution.
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The private keys of the code-signing certificate can be stored in an HSM to eliminate the risks associated with stolen, corrupted, or misused keys.
Client-side hashing ensures build performance and avoids unnecessary movement of files to provide a greater level of security
The command line signing tool provides a faster method to sign requests in bulk
Robust access control systems can be integrated with LDAP and customizable workflows to mitigate risks associated with granting wrong access to unauthorized users, allowing them to sign code with malicious certificates
Support for customized workflows of an “M of N” quorum with multi-tier support of approvers
Support for InfosSec policies to improve adoption of the solution and enable different business teams to have their own workflow for Code Signing
Validation of code against UpToDate antivirus definitions for virus and malware before digitally signing it will mitigate risks associated with signing malicious code