Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) as a Service
Ensuring the security of your communications and transactions relies heavily on managing the lifecycle of digital certificates. Expired, compromised, or misconfigured certificates can lead to service outages, security vulnerabilities, and regulatory non-compliance. Managing these certificates manually can be cumbersome, complex, and prone to errors. Cogito Group’s Certificate Lifecycle Management as a Service (CLMaaS) offers a fully automated, secure, and scalable solution to manage digital certificates across your entire organisation. Whether you need to issue, renew, revoke, or monitor certificates, Cogito Group’s CLMaaS simplifies the process, reduces risk, and ensures your certificates are always up-to-date and compliant.
Why Choose Cogito Group’s CLMaaS?
- Automated Certificate Management: Manual certificate management is inefficient and can lead to costly mistakes, such as certificate expirations that result in service downtime. With Cogito Group’s CLMaaS, you benefit from fully automated workflows that handle all aspects of certificate management.
- Automated Issuance and Renewal: Certificates are automatically issued and renewed before they expire, ensuring your services remain uninterrupted.
- Automated Revocation: Quickly and easily revoke certificates when they are no longer needed or when a security compromise is detected.
- Proactive Expiration Alerts: Receive real-time notifications before certificates expire to ensure you never miss a renewal deadline.
Centralised Certificate Management
- Unified Dashboard: View and manage the status of all certificates in one place, providing full visibility and control over your entire certificate infrastructure.
- Cross-Platform Support: Seamlessly manage certificates across multiple platforms, including cloud environments, on-premise systems, and hybrid infrastructures. The CLM capability can even help with disconnected systems such as Operational Technology (OT) used by industrial and utilities companies.
- Integration with Existing Systems: Integrate easily with your existing IT infrastructure, including Active Directory, Azure, and various network devices, for end-to-end certificate lifecycle management.
- Strong Security and Compliance: Security is paramount when managing digital certificates, especially in industries like finance, healthcare, utilities and government. Cogito Group’s CLMaaS is built on strong security principles to protect your certificates and ensure compliance with global regulations.
- End-to-End Encryption: All certificate-related data is encrypted both at rest and in transit, ensuring it cannot be tampered with or compromised.
- Compliance-Ready: Ensure your certificates comply with industry standards, such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, and ISO 27001.
- Audit Trails: Maintain a detailed audit trail of all certificate-related actions, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and simplifying the auditing process.
Our PKI Offering
Scalability and Flexibility
As your organisation grows, your certificate management needs will evolve. Cogito Group’s CLMaaS scales effortlessly to accommodate businesses of any size, from small enterprises to global organisations with complex PKI requirements.
- Flexible Deployment: Whether you operate in the cloud, on-premises, or within a hybrid environment, Cogito Group’s CLMaaS adapts to your infrastructure, providing seamless management of certificates wherever they are needed.
- Enterprise-Grade Scalability: Easily scale your certificate management capabilities to handle thousands or even millions of certificates as your business expands.
- Role-Based Access Control: Manage certificate access based on user roles and permissions, ensuring that only authorised personnel can perform sensitive certificate operations.
Advanced Certificate Monitoring and Analytics
Effective certificate management goes beyond issuing and renewing certificates. Cogito Group’s CLMaaS provides advanced monitoring and analytics tools to help you track certificate usage, detect potential issues, and optimise your certificate infrastructure.
- Real-Time Monitoring: Continuously monitor the status and performance of all certificates in your environment, alerting you to potential issues such as misconfigurations, expired certificates, or security vulnerabilities.
- Customisable Reporting: Generate detailed reports on certificate usage, expiration trends, and security status, helping you make informed decisions about your certificate management strategy.
- Health Checks: Ensure certificates are correctly configured and up-to-date with automatic health checks that identify potential risks before they become critical problems.
Key Features of CLM as a Service
Deploying and managing PKI solutions is complex. Depending on the size and complexity of your organisation, you may not need an in-house PKI solution. Cogito Group offers managed Public Key Infrastructure as a Service options. These options enable trust and secure corporate assets throughout your technological ecosystem.
Ensuring a robust and secure PKI can cause extra hidden costs. Cogito Group removes these costs. Providing full management of your chosen PKI solution combined with lower costs. Read more about Cogito Group’s managed PKIaaS offering below.
Comprehensive Certificate Lifecycle Automation
Automated Issuance, Renewal, and Revocation: Streamline certificate management with automated workflows that handle every step of the lifecycle, reducing human error and manual intervention.
Customisable Policies: Tailor certificate policies to meet the specific needs of your organisation, including certificate duration, renewal thresholds, and security protocols.
Integration with Public and Private Certificate Authorities (CAs)
Multiple CA Support: Manage certificates from both public and private CAs, including leading providers like DigiCert and Let’s Encrypt, as well as your internal PKI infrastructure.
Seamless Integration: Easily integrate with your existing CA infrastructure, including support for Microsoft Autoenrol, SCEP, ACME, CMP, EST and REST protocols for automated certificate issuance.
Certificate Discovery and Inventory Management
Discovery Tools: Automatically discover and inventory all certificates in your network, ensuring that no certificate goes unmanaged or expires unexpectedly.
Comprehensive Inventory: Maintain a complete inventory of all certificates, tracking their status, expiry dates, and security configurations.
Future-Proof with Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)
As quantum computing evolves, the need for quantum-resistant cryptography becomes crucial. Cogito Group’s CLMaaS is designed to future-proof your organisation by incorporating support for Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC).
- Quantum-Resistant Algorithms: Our service supports quantum-safe algorithms, ensuring your certificate management infrastructure remains secure in the post-quantum era.
- Seamless Transition: Be prepared for the future of cryptography with an easy transition to PQC, ensuring long-term security for your certificates and digital assets.
Strong Identity Management and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Enhanced Security: Strengthen certificate security with integrated identity management and multi-factor authentication (MFA) to verify user identities before performing sensitive actions.
Role-Based Permissions: Manage certificate-related permissions through role-based access controls (RBAC), ensuring only authorised personnel can request, issue, or revoke certificates.
