Manage Public and Private Certificates Issued by Sectigo and Other CAs From a Single Platform

Sectigo’s advancements to its flagship product, Sectigo Certificate Manager (SCM), make it a universal platform capable of managing public and private certificates from Sectigo and other leading Certificate Authorities (CAs). This move to CA agnosticism provides enterprises with a modern approach to securing and managing their human and machine identities at scale – all done in a central portal in the cloud.

Sectigo's new product capabilities provide customers with a simple migration path off outdated on-premises solutions to a modern cloud platform built for securing and managing the rapidly growing volume of digital identities used across the enterprise. Customers can now manage their digital identities provided by Sectigo or other CAs through a central portal.

FAQ

WHY DID SECTIGO MOVE TO BEING CA AGNOSTIC?
The volume of certificates being used to secure digital identities is growing exponentially, and businesses are faced with new management challenges that can’t be solved with legacy CA models or outdated on-premises solutions. We brought to market a new universal management platform that is a modern approach to securing and managing their digital identities at scale, enabling new use cases and the flexibility to use multiple CAs.

CAN YOU FULLY MANAGE MY MICROSOFT CA USING THE SAME PLATFORM?
Sectigo has direct integrations with Microsoft, allowing customers to use the SCM portal to issue and deploy Microsoft certificates to users and devices automatically. Customers can now use SCM to manage their Microsoft certificates alongside their other public and private certificates from a single portal. It provides advanced features that MSCA does not have.

CAN I KEEP THE CERTIFICATES ALREADY PURCHASED FROM ANOTHER CA AND MANAGE THEM THROUGH SCM?
Yes, SCM can now manage the lifecycles of other CA certificates. You can discover, issue, renew, and automate the management for any certificate in your environment and apply consistent governance to those certificates that match your corporate policies.

DO I STILL NEED TO USE THE MANAGEMENT PORTAL FROM OTHER CAS OR CLM PLATFORMS?
SCM is your single portal for all your certificate management needs. With SCM, you can reduce the number of vendors you have, retain your existing investment with other CAs, and run multiple CAs for redundancy while still benefiting from the advanced features and integrations SCM provides. Depending on the API provided to Sectigo by the 3rd party CA, they may require that their CLM be used for the basic certificate functions — such as license controls to both pay for and limit how many certificates they are entitled to, or to continue to validate the domains according to CA/Browser Forum policy.

WHAT OTHER INNOVATIONS IS SECTIGO LAUNCHING?
Sectigo is adding many more innovations to SCM that will solve new and emerging use cases for its enterprise customers, including:

• Passwordless authentication – Using certificates as an alternative solution to traditional password-based authentication, Sectigo’s solution provides an instant and more secure login for remote devices and employees, reducing the risk from password-stealing attacks.
• Robotic Process Automation (RPA) – New enhancements for orchestrating digital identities help bots connect and communicate securely.
• Advanced Automation – As certificate lifespans continue to shorten, enterprises must continually renew them. New automation capabilities can automatically provision, install, and renew certificates for all human and machine use cases.
• Remote Identity Validation – Remotely authenticate employees, customers, partners, and vendors, enabling them to securely sign documents from anywhere, on any device.

HOW CAN I SEE A DEMO AND LEARN MORE?
Talk to one of our solution experts today.


Additional Resources
https://sectigo.com/CAagnostic