Overview

About AppViewX

AppViewX is advanced cybersecurity and network management, automation, and orchestration platform for Enterprise IT. AppViewX Lifecycle Management Solution for Certificates on ADC or Load Balancers, Servers, Firewall, Cloud, Web Application Firewall (WAF), and enterprise mobility solution aims to avoid network outages due to unplanned certificate expiration and improve organization security posture. This remote monitoring and management platform helps network operations move faster, enforce compliance, eliminate errors, and reduce costs in the organization.

CERT+ Overview

AppViewX’s CERT+ provides an end–to–end lifecycle management of x.509 digital certificates across complex networks to secure your business. With CERT+, security teams can manage the certificate lifecycle from an intuitive single-pane management Interface. It enables the Certificate Lifecycle Management and Automation solution which helps enterprise IT manage and automate the entire lifecycle of their internal and external PKI. The key stages of the certificate lifecycle can be broken into the following stages:

Certificate Discovery & Inventory Management - Allows users to discover certificates across the network and manage inventory of all certificates in one place.

Visibility and Monitoring - Enables the user to monitor certificate expiry and usage. The monitored data is represented as a detailed report on the web portal along with options to trigger email alerts. Allows users to gain insights into certificates; monitor and take remedial action.

Certificate Enrollment - Allows users to request certificates from a certificate authority (CA) that confirms their identity and generates a certificate.

Certificate Renewal - Allows users to either manually or automatically renew a certificate before the expiry date by retaining the old private key.

Certificate Regeneration - Allows users to enroll new certificates with similar parameters to an old certificate. When a user generates a new private key, the user can modify the parameters if required.

Certificate Reissuance - Allows users to enroll new certificates with similar parameters to an old certificate. But the newly issued certificate comes with the same validity as the older certificate and can modify the parameters.

Certificate Revocation - Allows users to revoke a certificate in the event of certificate loss, compromise, or any other reason when the certificate is no more necessary for business.

Certificate Audit - Track and audit the usage, creation, expiration, and revocation of certificates. Track user interaction with the platform.

What is Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM)?

There is a growing need for organizations to allow and control only specific individuals, devices, machines to gain access to the network. The need for digital certificates to authenticate, identify and control who can access and operate on an organization’s network. Managing digital certificates across complex networks to ensure protection and prevent failures is a must for all businesses. CLM ensures continuous monitoring of digital certificates, with the ability to audit and keep track of expirations and renewals to avoid any service disruption. The digital certificate is a mechanism by which machines and individuals are identified and authenticated.

What is x.509 Digital Certificate?

The digital certificate is a mechanism by which machines and individuals are identified and authenticated. Digital certificates (x.509 certificates) are essential to establish trust and authenticate the identity of machines, people, and so on.

It helps to verify the identity between users in operation, servers, and other entities in a network. Also, identifies servers from whom the encrypted data is received, the signer of information, and helps to establish authenticity and integrity. The x.509 digital certificate protects information belonging to enterprises and their customers.

A digital certificate contains:

  • Name of the certificate holder.

  • Serial Number that is used to uniquely identify the service, individual, or entity identified by the certificate.

  • Expiry date.

  • Copy of the certificate holder's public key (used for decrypting messages and digital signatures).

  • Digital Signature of the certificate-issuing authority.

Certificate Authority

A Certificate Authority (CA) is also known as a certification authority or certificate issuer and is an establishment that validates the identities of certificate requestors and associates them to a cryptographic key through the issuance of electronic documents known as digital certificates.