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Maintain your digital sovereignty when automating your certificate management – for maximum security, business continuity and compliance in turbulent times!
What are the features of SwissSign Certificate Lifecycle Management powered by Evertrust?
Post-Quantum Cryptography will require a comprehensive inventory as a starting point for planning and prioritising your migration until 2030. In future, you will need to use new encryption algorithms for all certificates and, if necessary, replace them again as standards evolve – your PKI must become agile (‘crypto-agile’).
In order to avoid outages, you will also need to renew certificates 10x more often than today from 2029 on. This requires a transparent audit, a strategy on how to govern your certificates including meta-data for each of them, and automated deployment of new certificates across your entire infrastructure and applications.
1. Audit: Transparency for your certificates & preparing PQC
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Comprehensive Discovery: Customisable scans for networks, cloud, containers, third parties, and endpoints on your schedule
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Real-Time Inventory: Full lifecycle tracking of discovery, issuance, renewal, and methods
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Risk Detection: Instantly identify weak algorithms, expiring certificates, unauthorised CAs, and policy violations
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Centralised Visibility: Monitoring, ownership accountability, and proactive alerts before critical expirations
2. Governance: Organising your certificates & foundations for PQC roll-out
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Automatic Blocking: Prevent non-compliant certificate requests that violate crypto standards, approved CAs, or naming rules, with clear remediation guidance
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Ownership Assignment: Link certificates to business units, teams, or individuals for accountability and self-service
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Tamper-Proof Audit Logs: Track all actions with cryptographically signed logs for forensic detail
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Quality Scoring: Grade certificates (A-E) based on NIST, ANSSI, and CA/B Forum standards to prioritise fixes
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Automated Compliance Reporting: Schedule email reports and create customisable dashboards for leadership and trend analysis
3. Automation: Shorter life-spans without extra efforts
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End-to-End Automation: Custom workflows for issuance, renewal, revocation, and deployment with or without manual steps
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Policy-Based Renewals: Schedule renewals and auto-redeploy certificates to ensure uninterrupted protection
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Scale Management: Perform bulk operations for thousands of certificates, from mass revocations to policy updates
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Automated Deployment: Push certificates across apps and infrastructure using native connectors and REST APIs – cloud & platform support through built-in integration AWS Certificate Manager, Azure Key Vault, Google Certificate Manager, F5 BigIP, and more
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Developer Enablement: Auto-provision certificates directly within CI/CD pipelines – seamless integrations with Ansible, Terraform, Cert-manager, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and MDM platforms like Intune, Workspace One, and Jamf
Maximum trust for your certificate management with SwissSign
How to get started with Certificate Lifecycle Management
1. Choose your deployment option depending on your needs
SwissSign offers different options to cater to your specific requirements: do you want to audit and manage only public TLS/SSL and/or S/MIME certificates or include private certificates, too? How many would you like to manage with the CLM software? Do you have special compliance or security standards, do you prefer an on-premise solution?
Collaborating with our broad partner network or with your preferred IT integrators, we will find the ideal solution for you.
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Small businesses (planned 2026) |
Mid Market |
Enterprise |
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Individual |
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Certificates |
Only public certificates | Public and private certificates | Large number of public and private certificates |
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SwissSign | Collaboration with a partner from our network or work with your preferred IT integrator | Collaboration with a partner from our network or work with your preferred IT integrator |
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Hosting |
SwissSign Cloud | Partner Cloud | Partner Cloud OR On Premise |
2. Setting up the CLM software for your company
The software is tailored to your environment and made ready for operation. This creates the basis for centralised certificate management.
3. Setting up the necessary automation connectors by our Professional Services team
Our Professional Services team connects your systems to the CLM platform. We accompany you step by step.
4. Scanning and importing your certificates
All existing certificates are recognised and transferred to the platform. This gives you a complete overview of your inventory.
5. Assigning metadata and policies for certificates
Certificates are provided with relevant information and security policies. This creates clear responsibilities and compliance transparency.
6. Set up automation cycles
Renewal, issuance and monitoring will run automatically in future. This minimises risks and ensures continuous security.
The result
A clean and agile PKI and transparent preparation for the future of your security infrastructure
IT service providers and data centres: Certificate management for your customers
Shorter certificate lifetimes, post-quantum security management, compliance and governance issues relating to certificates – support your customers with these challenges
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Do implementation, management and hosting of certificate management for your customers – with training from SwissSign
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Benefit from rapid developments in the security market – and secure your customers' digital sovereignty
Ready to future-proof your certificate management?
Post-quantum cryptography is coming, and certificate lifetimes are shrinking. Don't wait until expired certificates cause business disruptions. Our experts will help you choose the right deployment model and develop a tailored automation strategy.
Book a consultation today – and secure your digital infrastructure for tomorrow's challenges.
Frequently Asked Questions
Certificate Lifecycle Management is a platform that automates the discovery, issuance, renewal, deployment of digital certificates across your entire infrastructure. It eliminates manual processes, prevents outages from expired certificates, and ensures compliance with security policies.
Certificate lifetimes are getting shorter – from years to just 47 days in some cases. Post-quantum cryptography will require renewing certificates more frequently as well. Manual management is no longer sustainable. CLM automates these processes, saving time and preventing costly business disruptions.
SwissSign combines certificates and lifecycle management in one integrated offering, reducing complexity and integration efforts. You benefit from Swiss-European digital sovereignty, over 20 years of PKI expertise, and competitive pricing that won't skyrocket when you switch to single-domain certificates for automation.
Absolutely. CLM provides the comprehensive certificate inventory you need to plan your PQC migration through 2030. It helps you identify which certificates need updating, prioritise based on risk, and automate the deployment of quantum-safe certificates when they become available.
We offer flexible deployment models: SMEs can use our SwissSign cloud model. For SMEs or larger organisations with complex needs we create indivdual offerings together with their preferred partners or our network. Our team will help you determine which option best fits your security requirements and infrastructure.
Automation typically requires single-domain certificates instead of multi-domain oder wildcard certificates. Depending on your certificate authority, this can dramatically increase your costs – potentially multiplying your certificate expenses several times over. SwissSign offers a competitive pricing model designed specifically for automation scenarios, helping you avoid budget surprises while still achieving full automation benefits.
Implementation timelines vary based on your infrastructure complexity and chosen deployment model. After an initial consultation to determine the best approach, our professional services team handles the software setup and automation connector configuration. SMEs can start after a couple of days.
Yes! We have attractive partner programmes for integrators, MSSPs, and other IT service providers. You can offer certificate management as a managed service to your customers, with training and support from SwissSign. This helps you expand your service offerings while securing your customers' digital sovereignty.
How digital certificates and public key infrastructure work
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