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Why organisations need a Certificate Lifecycle Management solution now
What are the features of SwissSign's Certificate Lifecycle Management?
1. Audit: Transparency for your certificates & preparing PQC
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Comprehensive Discovery: Customisable scans for networks, cloud, containers, third parties, and endpoints on your schedule
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Real-Time Inventory: Full lifecycle tracking of discovery, issuance, renewal, and methods
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Risk Detection: Instantly identify weak algorithms, expiring certificates, unauthorised CAs, and policy violations
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Centralised Visibility: Monitoring, ownership accountability, and proactive alerts before critical expirations
2. Governance: Organising your certificates & foundations for PQC roll-out
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Automatic Blocking: Prevent non-compliant certificate requests that violate crypto standards, approved CAs, or naming rules, with clear remediation guidance
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Ownership Assignment: Link certificates to business units, teams, or individuals for accountability and self-service
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Tamper-Proof Audit Logs: Track all actions with cryptographically signed logs for forensic detail
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Quality Scoring: Grade certificates (A-E) based on NIST, ANSSI, and CA/B Forum standards to prioritise fixes
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Automated Compliance Reporting: Schedule email reports and create customisable dashboards for leadership and trend analysis
3. Automation: Shorter life-spans without extra efforts
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End-to-End Automation: Custom workflows for issuance, renewal, revocation, and deployment with or without manual steps
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Policy-Based Renewals: Schedule renewals and auto-redeploy certificates to ensure uninterrupted protection
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Scale Management: Perform bulk operations for thousands of certificates, from mass revocations to policy updates
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Automated Deployment: Push certificates across apps and infrastructure using native connectors and REST APIs – cloud & platform support through built-in integration AWS Certificate Manager, Azure Key Vault, Google Certificate Manager, F5 BigIP, and more
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Developer Enablement: Auto-provision certificates directly within CI/CD pipelines – seamless integrations with Ansible, Terraform, Cert-manager, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and MDM platforms like Intune, Workspace One, and Jamf
How to deploy SwissSign Certificate Lifecycle Management
Maximum trust for your certificate management with SwissSign
IT service providers and data centres: Certificate management for your customers
Shorter certificate lifetimes, post-quantum security management, compliance and governance issues relating to certificates – support your customers with these challenges
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Do implementation, management and hosting of certificate management for your customers – with training from SwissSign
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Benefit from rapid developments in the security market – and secure your customers' digital sovereignty
Ready to future-proof your certificate management?
Post-quantum cryptography is coming, and certificate lifetimes are shrinking. Don't wait until expired certificates cause business disruptions. Our experts will help you choose the right deployment model and develop a tailored automation strategy.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Certificate Lifecycle Management is a platform that automates the discovery, issuance, renewal, deployment of digital certificates across your entire infrastructure. It eliminates manual processes, prevents outages from expired certificates, and ensures compliance with security policies.
The solution supports public certificates (TLS/SSL and S/MIME) as well as private certificates and simultaneous integration with multiple PKI providers, including public Certificate Authorities, private on-premises PKIs, and cloud-native PKI services.
The list of supported integrations may evolve over time as the platform capabilities expand and is available on the official product documentation. Additional integrations or customer-specific implementations may require separate professional service engagements.
Certificate lifetimes are getting shorter – from years to just 47 days in some cases. Post-quantum cryptography will require renewing certificates more frequently as well. Manual management is no longer sustainable. CLM automates these processes, saving time and preventing costly business disruptions.
SwissSign offers certificates and lifecycle management from one trusted supplier, reducing complexity and integration efforts – while keeping full flexibility to integrate all other Certificate Authorities. You benefit from Swiss-European digital sovereignty and over 25 years of PKI expertise.
The platform supports the inventory and crypto-agility needed for PQC migration, and private PQC certificates using NIST-approved algorithms (ML-KEM, ML-DSA, SLH-DSA) are available today. Public PQC certificates are not yet available industry-wide.
Cloud suits smaller, public-certificate estates; on-premises suits large, regulated, deeply integrated environments. See the selector.
Implementation timelines vary based on your infrastructure complexity and chosen deployment model. After an initial consultation to determine the best approach, our professional services team handles the software setup and automation connector configuration. SMEs can start after a couple of days.
Yes! We have attractive partner programmes for integrators, MSSPs, and other IT service providers. You can offer certificate management as a managed service to your customers, with training and support from SwissSign. This helps you expand your service offerings while securing your customers' digital sovereignty.
How digital certificates and public key infrastructure work
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