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About CertSecure Manager

What is a Certificate Management Solution?

A certificate manager is a crucial tool for enterprises facing security threats, managing multiple digital certificates, and lacking visibility into certificate usage. Mismanaging certificates can lead to business disruptions, compliance issues, and reputational damage. A certificate management solution is essential to effectively handle certificates, comply with regulations, and maintain a secure digital environment. It allows tracking certificate lifecycles, efficient management, and visibility into certificate usage across the enterprise.

What is CertSecure Manager?

CertSecure Manager by Encryption Consulting is a comprehensive solution designed to streamline and enhance enterprise digital certificate management. With its seamless integration into cloud-native environments and utilization of Microsoft PKI, this tool simplifies the process of securing and maintaining digital certificates.

CertSecure Manager empowers organizations to effortlessly handle all aspects of certificate lifecycles, from issuance to renewal and revocation. It enforces industry best practices, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and mitigating potential risks associated with certificate management.

By leveraging CertSecure Manager, enterprises can proactively discover and monitor their certificate infrastructure, preventing unauthorized access and vulnerabilities. This enables them to maintain a robust security posture and protect sensitive data while focusing on core business operations.

With its user-friendly interface and powerful features, it provides a reliable and efficient solution for managing digital certificates, offering peace of mind, and enabling organizations to maintain a secure and compliant certificate infrastructure effortlessly.

Key Features of CertSecure Manager

CertSecure Manager, the Microsoft PKI native solution, offers key features that simplify and enhance digital certificate management:

Microsoft PKI Native Solution: Streamline certificate management with built-in features, automated issuance and revocation, and robust security. Easily integrate and scale within Microsoft PKI infrastructure.
API Integration: Automate PKI processes and certificate management through API integration. Access certificate information, reduce manual intervention, streamline issuance, and integrate with applications for improved efficiency and reduced errors.
Inventory Management: Centralize and automate digital certificate inventory management. Ensure secure and compliant management across multiple sources by automating renewal, revocation, and tracking.
Certificate Enrolment: Enable self-service certificate requests with CertSecure. Reduce management costs, enable quick certificate acquisition, and enforce policies and controls for authorized user requests, enhancing efficiency and security.
Complete Automation: Automate certificate issuance and renewal for web servers, enhancing reliability and availability. Reduce the risk of outages caused by expired or invalid certificates while improving overall security.
Certificate Discovery: Efficiently manage your certificate landscape with certificate discovery. Improve security posture and compliance by identifying and removing unused or expired certificates, ensuring critical certificates are not missed or allowed to expire, and enhancing overall PKI infrastructure management.

Note: These features of CertSecure Manager enable organizations to simplify certificate management processes, enhance security, and maintain compliance with ease.

Platforms and Software Version Compatibility

CertSecure supports both single-server and multi-server deployment models:

Single-Server Deployment: In this configuration, all CertSecure components are installed on a single Windows Server instance.
Multi-Server Deployment: In this configuration, the CertSecure Backend component is hosted on a Linux server, while the Frontend component is deployed on a Windows Server. This separation of roles enhances scalability, performance, and maintainability..

Supported Operating Systems

Windows Server: 2022 (for windows based deployments)
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS or above ( for linux based deployments)

Core Software Requirements

MongoDB: v6.0 or above
OpenSSL: v3.x or above

Optional Integration

For web server-based certificate automation and integration

IIS: Version 10.0 or above
Apache HTTP Server: v2.4 or above
Nginx: v1.22 or above(For database certificate automation and integration)
MongoDB: v6.0+
Microsoft SQL Server: 2019 or above
Oracle DB: 19c or above
Java KeyStore (JKS): Requires Java 11 or above