Due to ongoing reductions in certificate lifetimes, enterprises are spending increasing amounts of time renewing and reissuing certificates on their web servers and load balancers. They need the ability to support certificate enrollment, renewal and management for a variety of appliances and applications that need and consume certificates.

Corporate IT infrastructures depend on machines like web servers and load balancers to ensure availability of internal and external resources. In order to deliver continuous uptime and availability, organizations must ensure that the public certificates on these machines are managed throughout their lifecycles, from enrollment to renewal and revocation.

Centralizing certificate management improves visibility into the certificate landscape and provides a basis for automation, which is instrumental in keeping business systems connected and running securely and efficiently.