Sectigo Democratizes Certificate Lifecycle Management as Customers Struggle To Keep up with Big Technological Advances
16 April 2024 - 10:55AM
Business Wire
Award-winning platform no longer just for
enterprise IT teams
Brings digital safety to SMEs using an
automated, cloud-native solution available as a service
Sectigo®, the industry’s most innovative provider of
comprehensive certificate lifecycle management (CLM), announced
today the launch of SCM Pro, the first-of-its-kind solution to
bring the robustness of enterprise CLM to SMEs, effectively
leveling the playing field between large enterprises and the
mid-market.
Online identity proliferation, hybrid work, and device sprawl
increase the number of certificates organizations need to manage;
meanwhile, the lifespan of each certificate grows shorter. In other
words, more certificates are expiring more often, making it
impossible for IT and security teams to keep up using outmoded
manual practices. Certificates expiring within 90 days bring up to
five times more certificates under management and sub-10-day
certificates bring up to 40 times more. The likely move toward
ephemeral certificates that expire in near-real time introduces
numbers too big to count. Not even large enterprises can meet this
change, much less SMEs.
“Whereas automated CLM solutions were traditionally aimed at
larger organizations, the proliferation of digital certificates and
PKI use cases have led to increasing CLM needs for small and large
enterprises alike,” said Özgün Pelit, senior industry analyst at
Frost & Sullivan. “With its highly-productized offering and
flexible pricing models, Sectigo has greatly extended CLM to
smaller organizations, eliminating on-premise effort and additional
professional services.”
Sectigo recognized the need for a lightweight CLM platform that
would allow customers to gain visibility into certificate status to
help prevent business outages. With SCM Pro, SMEs can automate
certificate management without reliance on manual tracking that
cannot account for complex validation and installation processes.
SCM Pro delivers a simple, secure, scalable CLM model that handles
everything from discovery to renewals and everything in
between.
“We have customers operating in many industries around the world
who rely on us to connect, harvest, share, manage, and secure their
data across the entire IT/OT ecosystem, and proper certificate
management is often a gap,” said Freddy Bürkli, head of
cybersecurity sales at Axians IT Services Switzerland. “Sectigo SCM
Pro makes it easy for us to support those customers without having
to bolt-on additional products to discover and automate
certificates.”
The release of SCM Pro means customers that formerly could only
manage their certificates by hand now have a single automated view
of every public certificate in their IT estate regardless of the
issuer, so they no longer have to worry about renewals,
revocations, or replacements.
“With Sectigo SCM Pro, we empower customers to take proactive
steps to mitigate their risk and secure their digital assets,
allowing them to channel more resources into business growth,” said
Ricardo Resnik, CEO at Multipoint group. “We recognize that
customers can no longer manage digital certificates manually, and
partners like Sectigo allow us to continue to provide cutting-edge
cybersecurity solutions that make it easier for them to keep their
business safe.”
SCM Pro seamlessly provides interoperability in any IT
environment from a single console, allowing customers to secure
websites, applications, and devices with ease.
“When people think online trust management, they think Sectigo,
and the launch of SCM Pro further underscores our commitment to
provide the simplest, most comprehensive CLM in the world for all
of our customers,” said Sectigo CEO Kevin Weiss. “We've made
strategic investments at all levels of the company — in our people,
in our technology, and in our partners — to ensure we can support
our customers throughout their digital transformation initiatives.
We continue to hire for key roles in all of our global regions as
our business — and the needs of our customers — continue to
expand.”
SCM Pro includes:
- Standard automation protocols with ACME. SCM Pro
automates all certificate management tasks using the ACME standard
protocol to ensure seamless, error-free operations
- Simplified deployment for effortless configurations: SCM
Pro’s user-friendly interface delivers a hassle-free deployment
experience and guided, customized workflows that generate command
snippets to simplify configurations and reduce manual errors
- Business continuity with certificates as a service: SCM
Pro's annual certificate subscription provides unlimited
public-domain-validated (DV) certificates with automated
provisioning and management to future-proof digital security and
minimize risk
To learn how Sectigo Certificate Manager Pro can transform your
business and help you achieve better security outcomes, visit
www.sectigo.com/certificate-manager-pro.
And Sectigo is hiring! There has never been a better time to
join our dynamic company, so check out our open positions — you’ll
be glad you did.
About Sectigo
Sectigo is the industry’s most innovative provider of
comprehensive certificate lifecycle management (CLM), with
automated solutions and digital certificates that secure every
human and machine identity for the world’s largest brands. Its
automated, cloud-native, universal CLM platform issues and manages
digital certificates provided by all trusted certificate
authorities (CAs) to simplify and improve security protocols across
the enterprise. Sectigo is one of the longest-standing and largest
CAs with more than 700,000 customers and two decades of delivering
unparalleled digital trust. For more information, visit
www.sectigo.com, follow us on LinkedIn, and subscribe to our Webby
award-winning podcast, Root Causes.
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