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The importance of digital certificate lifecycle management

As use cases for digital certificates continue to expand and become more complex, your organization becomes more vulnerable to risk if the certificates are not managed properly. Let’s take a look at some numbers to illustrate some industry trends.

THE TREND

Proliferation of certificates

Source: 2015-2020 Ponemon Global PKI & IoT Trends Studies

TLS/SSL certificates for public-facing websites and services

Public cloud-based applications and services

Enterprise user authentication

Private networks and VPN

Email security

Device authentication

Document/messaging signing

Private cloud-based applications

Code signing

Source: 2020 Ponemon PKI & IoT Trends Study

Internet of Things (IoT)

Cloud-based services

Consumer mobile

Source: 2020 Ponemon PKI & IoT Trends Study

SUMMARY OF TRENDS

With TLS/SSL certificates coming in first, the top applications using PKI credentials are still mostly traditional use cases, like VPN and email security. This year saw public cloud-based applications take a big jump, which is no surprise as cloud- based services is one of the top trends driving PKI adoption, alongside IoT.

MULTIPLE CAs, SINGLE PANE OF GLASS

Gain full visibility into all your public and private certificates across multiple CAs.

Simple and intuitive interface

Provides a central enforcement point that lets you easily manage the complete lifecycle of all your certificates.

Discovery and reporting

Powerful discovery capabilities and automated reports and notifications keep your team aware and accountable.

Easy integration

Expansion-ready pluggable architecture integrates easily into existing applications, enabling certificate automation via our CA Gateway REST API.

Certificate Lifecycle Management

The importance of digital certificate lifecycle management

THE TREND

Proliferation of certificates

Top PKI use cases

Top trends driving PKI deployment

THE FALLOUT

More complexity and higher risk exposure

THE SOLUTION

Visibility and proper certificate lifecycle management

MULTIPLE CAs, SINGLE PANE OF GLASS

Simple and intuitive interface

Discovery and reporting

Easy integration