What is Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM)?

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 Revocation: Allows users to revoke a certificate in the event of certificate loss, compromise, or any other reason when the certificate is no longer necessary for business.
• Certificate Audit: Track and audit the usage, creation, expiration, and revocation of certificates. Track user interaction with the platform.