Certificate Lifecycle Management Maturity Model
Sectigo’s CLM Maturity Model helps organizations of all sizes in mastering certificate lifecycle management and achieving crypto agility. Answer a few questions to find out where you stand in your CLM journey and what you need to do to progress to the next level.
Understanding CLM maturity: from manual management to advanced automation and crypto agility
Sectigo’s Maturity Model outlines a strategic evolution through five levels of CLM maturity. Each level presents unique challenges and opportunities, helping organizations assess their current state and develop a clear roadmap for improvement. From manual management to advanced automation and crypto agility, this journey is essential for reducing risks, meeting regulatory requirements, and staying ahead of cyber threats.
Automation
Automation streamlines certificate management, ensuring timely updates and reducing human error. This level is essential as certificate lifecycles shorten, making manual management impractical.
At this level, tasks such as certificate issuance, renewal, and revocation can be executed swiftly and accurately, reducing the likelihood of human error.
Automation, visibility
Visibility is crucial for managing certificates effectively. Organizations at this level adopt tools that provide a clear view of all certificates, their statuses, and lifecycles.
Improved visibility enables better risk management and strategic planning, paving the way for more sophisticated automation.
Automation, Visibility, Discovery
Discovery provides insight into all certificates within an infrastructure, reducing security risks and ensuring compliance. Organizations at this level achieve centralized control over certificate management.
Unified certificate management reduces risks and provides clarity, enabling organizations to scale efficiently and maintain robust security practices.
Automation, Visibility, Discovery, Process & Governance
At this level, organizations achieve comprehensive automation and seamless integration. The focus is maximizing agility, minimizing risk, and maintaining compliance through a policy-driven approach.
Achieving full automation and governance prepares organizations for future challenges, including quantum cryptographic threats.
Automation, Visibility, Discovery, Process & Governance, Crypto Agility
The pinnacle of CLM maturity, this level integrates CLM into the overall cybersecurity strategy, ensuring dynamic policy adaptation and proactive threat mitigation.
Answer a few questions and download your personalized CLM Maturity e-book!
Take the 5-minute test and receive your personalised assessment and tips and tricks on how to mature your certificate lifecycle management.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss how we can support you to reach CLM maturity, our team of experts is available for you. Schedule a demo today!
Your next steps
Assess your current level
Evaluate your certificate management practices against each maturity level to identify gaps.
Develop a roadmap
Based on your assessment, set clear goals and develop a roadmap focusing on visibility, automation, and risk management.
Partner with experts
Collaborate with Sectigo for the expertise and tools required for seamless transformation and higher maturity levels.
Sectigo Certificate Manager (SCM) supports your journey through CLM maturity
Schedule a demo today and find out how our best-in-class certificate management platform can guide your organization towards expert-level CLM maturity.
