CLM - Best Practices

Risks Involved in an Enterprise without CLM and their Solutions


S/No	Risks Involved in an Enterprise without CLM	Solutions
1	No centralized management for all certificates in an enterprise and to know the certificate's location.	Different modes to discover existing certificates along with the discovery source.
2	Enforcing teams to follow the enterprise security standards.	Get information about all certificates within an enterprise. Run a validation for the existing certificate against the organization's security standard.
3	Poor monitoring of certificate validity causes outages due to expired certificates.	Continuous monitoring of the certificate status and notifications. Automated renewals and provisioning should be available.
4	Control over the generation of keys.	Provide a mode of access to teams to access and generate certificates for their requirements.

Create a certificate lifecycle management action plan
Start automating the certificate management process wherever feasible.
Identify and expose all the neglected certificates, these are the certificates that will cause more damage during expiry.
Ensure proper RBAC controls and avoid using direct user accounts and instead use identified admin accounts for access and control.
Enable notifications and alerts to ensure timely renewal.
Schedule scans to run overnight or after business hours.