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Certificate Lifecycle Management

Thousands of Certificates.
Zero Surprise Expirations.

One certificate is simple. Tens of thousands across services, clouds, devices, and AI workloads is a full-time risk. certificates.ms automates the entire lifecycle — discovery, issuance, renewal, and revocation — before an expired cert becomes an outage.

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Automated Discovery Policy-Driven Issuance Hands-Off Renewal Instant Revocation Fleet-Wide Rotation Crypto-Agility Ready Zero Outage Risk Compliance Reporting Multi-Cloud Support Machine Identity at Scale Automated Discovery Policy-Driven Issuance Hands-Off Renewal Instant Revocation Fleet-Wide Rotation Crypto-Agility Ready Zero Outage Risk Compliance Reporting Multi-Cloud Support Machine Identity at Scale

The Numbers Don't Lie

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% of outages caused by expired certificates — Gartner
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× faster certificate rotation vs. manual processes
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% reduction in certificate-related security incidents
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% of machine identities tracked, not just managed
HashiCorp Vault AWS ACM DigiCert Sectigo Venafi Let's Encrypt

Manual Management Guarantees Blind Spots

The classic certificate outage starts the same way: a cert nobody owned, on a system nobody remembered, expired at the worst possible moment.

Unknown Certificates

Shadow certs and forgotten issuances create unmonitored attack surfaces across your environment.

Surprise Expirations

Spreadsheet reminders slip. Calendar entries get ignored. One missed renewal triggers a production outage.

Weak Keys & Algorithms

Legacy configurations with deprecated algorithms sit undetected until a compliance audit forces a crisis.

Compromised Keys Linger

Without fleet-wide revocation, a single compromised key remains active across dozens of services.

EXPIRED ! ~

Full Lifecycle Control,
Zero Manual Effort

certificates.ms brings machine-scale certificate sprawl under control with automation that treats certificates as the high-stakes credentials they've become.

See Every Certificate

Continuously scan networks, clouds, and endpoints. Maintain a single source of truth covering issuers, expiry dates, owners, and locations — including shadow and forgotten certs.

Automate the Lifecycle

Policy-driven issuance, hands-off renewal, and fast fleet-wide revocation. Keep pace with short-lived machine credentials without lifting a finger.

Stay Audit-Ready

Continuous visibility and always-current reporting for compliance reviews. Early warnings well before expiration, role-based controls, and unified identity-program integration.

Everything Your Certificate Fleet Needs

Four capability pillars that turn a liability into a managed, invisible background process.

Continuous Network Scanning

Automatically sweep your entire environment — on-premises, cloud, and hybrid — to locate every certificate in use, regardless of issuer or format.

Unified Certificate Inventory

Single authoritative registry covering issuer, owner, expiry, deployment location, and algorithm — updated in real-time without manual entries.

Shadow Certificate Detection

Surface forgotten and unmanaged certificates that no team owns or watches — eliminating the blind spots that cause unexpected outages.

Multi-Cloud & Endpoint Coverage

Discover certs across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes clusters, containers, IoT devices, and on-prem infrastructure from one console.

Policy-Driven Issuance

Define who can request certificates, from which authorities, for which purposes, and for how long — enforced consistently at every issuance point.

Automated Renewal

Zero-touch renewal pipelines that act well ahead of expiration. No calendar reminders. No manual interventions. No lapses.

Fleet-Wide Revocation

Pull a compromised or expired key from every system it touches — simultaneously — in minutes rather than days.

High-Velocity Rotation

Support short-lived certificates for containers and AI workloads at machine scale, rotating credentials before they can be exploited.

Always-Current Reporting

Live dashboards and exportable compliance reports for SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and HIPAA — ready for auditors without scrambling.

Pre-Expiry Alerting

Configurable early-warning alerts — days or weeks before expiration — routed to the right teams via email, Slack, or SIEM.

Role-Based Access Control

Govern exactly who can request, approve, issue, and revoke certificates, with full audit trails for every action.

Unified Identity View

Connect certificate events to your broader identity and access management program for end-to-end machine identity governance.

Weak Key Detection

Identify certificates using deprecated algorithms (SHA-1, MD5), undersized keys, and non-compliant configurations before they become vulnerabilities.

Crypto-Agility Readiness

Prepare for post-quantum migration and shorter certificate lifetimes with a platform designed to swap algorithms fleet-wide with minimal disruption.

Threat-Triggered Response

Integrate with threat intelligence and SIEM to trigger automatic revocation and reissuance workflows when compromise is detected.

Zero Trust Machine Identity

Enforce verified, short-lived certificates for every machine identity — eliminating long-lived credentials that increase attack surface over time.

Turn Certificates from Risk
into Invisible Infrastructure

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Eliminate Outage Risk

Automated renewal means no certificate quietly expires at 3am. The fleet stays healthy with zero human involvement in the renewal loop.

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Shrink the Attack Surface

Short-lived, rapidly-rotated credentials give attackers a vanishingly small window. Compromised keys are revoked fleet-wide before they're exploited.

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Pass Every Audit

Always-current visibility and role-based controls mean compliance reviews are a report pull, not a multi-week scramble for evidence.

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Scale Without Friction

From hundreds to hundreds of thousands of machine identities — microservices, containers, IoT, AI agents — certificates.ms scales with your architecture.

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Future-Proof Your PKI

Crypto-agility built in. Swap algorithms fleet-wide when standards evolve, and prepare for post-quantum transitions without a rearchitect.

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Free Your Security Team

Certificate management becomes a background process. Your security engineers focus on strategic work, not chasing renewal tickets and expiry spreadsheets.

Built for Every Team That Owns Machine Identities

Whether you're running a multi-cloud enterprise estate or shipping containers at DevOps velocity, certificates.ms adapts to your environment.

Enterprise Multi-Cloud

Unified visibility and lifecycle management across sprawling, multi-cloud certificate estates spanning AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises.

DevOps & Containers

Automatic short-lived certificate issuance for Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines — keeping pace with ephemeral infrastructure at scale.

Security Teams

Eliminate outage and breach risk from expired or weak certs. Drive down certificate-related incidents with continuous monitoring and instant revocation.

Compliance & GRC

Always-current certificate posture reporting for SOC 2, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and HIPAA audits without last-minute data collection.

AI & Autonomous Agents

As autonomous agents proliferate, each needs a verified, short-lived certificate. Manage machine identity at AI workload scale without new processes.

IoT & OT Environments

Extend certificate lifecycle management to industrial systems, sensors, and edge devices — maintaining trust across the entire connected estate.

Works With Your Stack,
Out of the Box

Native integrations with the certificate authorities, clouds, and security tools your team already relies on.

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HashiCorp Vault
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AWS ACM
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Azure Key Vault
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Google CAS
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DigiCert CertCentral
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Sectigo
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Entrust
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Let's Encrypt
Kubernetes
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Docker
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Splunk SIEM
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PagerDuty
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Slack Alerts
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ServiceNow
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Terraform
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GitHub Actions

Audit-Ready for Every
Major Framework

certificates.ms maps natively to the certificate management requirements in leading compliance and security frameworks.

Framework Requirement Discovery Auto-Renewal Revocation Reporting
SOC 2 Type II Encryption key management & monitoring
PCI DSS v4 Strong cryptography & certificate tracking
ISO 27001:2022 Cryptographic controls & key lifecycle
HIPAA Encryption in transit & access controls
NIST CSF 2.0 Identity & access management controls
FedRAMP PKI management & continuous monitoring

Trusted by Security Leaders
Who Operate at Scale

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We had over 14,000 certificates across three clouds and no idea when half of them expired. certificates.ms gave us complete visibility in under 48 hours and automated every renewal. We haven't had a cert-related outage since.

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Sarah R.
CISO, Global Fintech Platform
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Our DevOps teams ship hundreds of containers a day. Before certificates.ms, certificate management was a constant friction point. Now it's completely invisible — certs just work, and they're short-lived by default.

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Marcus K.
Head of Platform Engineering, SaaS Scale-Up
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Our PCI auditors asked for a complete certificate inventory with expiry data and algorithm details. I pulled the report in two minutes. The auditors were visibly surprised — used to seeing teams scramble for weeks on that question.

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James P.
VP Information Security, Retail Enterprise

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about getting your certificate fleet under control.

How does certificates.ms discover certificates across my environment?
certificates.ms uses agentless network scanning combined with native API integrations for major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and certificate authorities. It continuously sweeps your environment to maintain a live, authoritative inventory — no agents to deploy, no manual exports required.
Can it manage certificates from multiple CAs in the same deployment?
Yes. certificates.ms is CA-agnostic by design. It integrates natively with DigiCert, Sectigo, Entrust, Let's Encrypt, HashiCorp Vault, AWS ACM, Azure Key Vault, and Google CAS — managing all of them from a single console under consistent policies.
How short-lived can certificate lifetimes be with automated rotation?
certificates.ms supports machine-scale rotation at any lifetime — including sub-24-hour certificates for containers, microservices, and AI workloads. Policy-driven issuance and automated renewal handle high-frequency rotation without any manual steps or workflow bottlenecks.
What happens when a compromised certificate is detected?
Fleet-wide revocation is triggered immediately — revoking the compromised key from every system it's deployed on simultaneously, then issuing replacements automatically. Integrations with SIEM and threat intelligence platforms can trigger this workflow automatically without requiring human intervention.
How does certificates.ms help with post-quantum readiness?
The platform is built for crypto-agility — the ability to swap cryptographic algorithms fleet-wide as standards evolve. When NIST post-quantum standards are fully ratified and CA support matures, certificates.ms allows you to migrate your entire certificate estate without a rearchitect or manual re-issuance campaign.
Is there a difference between certificates.ms and traditional PKI management tools?
Traditional PKI tools were designed for the era of hundreds of certificates managed by a dedicated PKI team. certificates.ms is purpose-built for machine scale — tens of thousands of certificates across multi-cloud, containerized, and AI-driven environments — with automation that replaces manual workflows entirely rather than just supporting them.
How quickly can we get visibility into our current certificate estate?
Initial discovery typically completes within 24–48 hours for most enterprise environments, depending on scale. Cloud integrations via API connect in minutes. The result is a complete, prioritized inventory with expiry timeline, issuer breakdown, and risk flags — ready before your next security meeting.

Your Certificate Fleet is
Growing Faster Than You Know

Certificates are now critical infrastructure. Infrastructure cannot depend on someone remembering a date. Take control of your certificate fleet at machine scale — before the next surprise expiration.

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