Certificate management – Public key infrastructure (PKI)

Public key infrastructure (PKI) provides a structured approach to managing digital certificates, ensuring authenticity, integrity, and confidentiality in electronic communication. 

What is PKI and certificate management? 

PKI is a system for issuing, managing, and validating digital certificates. This enables secure identification of users, devices, and services over the internet or internal networks. 

Benefits of PKI: 

• Strong authentication: Protects against unauthorized access. 

• Data encryption: Secures communication between devices and services. 

• Data security and integrity: Protects data from unauthorized changes. 

• Automated certificate management: Simplifies the issuance and renewal of certificates. 

 
Our certificate management advisors can offer: 

Implementation of PKI solutions 

• Setup of internal or external PKI systems for secure authentication. 

• Integration with Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS). 

• Management of public and private certificates. 

Certificate management for IT infrastructure 

• Setup of automated issuance and renewal of certificates. 

• Management of TLS/SSL certificates for web services. 

• Securing VPN, email (S/MIME), IoT devices, and applications. 

Monitoring and compliance 

• Certificate lifecycle management: Avoid expired certificates and downtime. 

• Compliance with security standards (ISO27001, NIS2, eIDAS, GDPR). 

• Alerts and proactive handling of certificate expirations. 

Integration with modern security solutions 

• Automated certificate management with HashiCorp Vault, Microsoft Intune, Venafi. 

• Zero Trust networks with certificate-based authentication. 

• Protection of internal services in Azure, AWS, and hybrid environments.