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CertAssura · Digital Trust Management

Certificate Lifecycle Management

Discover, inventory and continuously monitor certificates across internet-facing and private infrastructure. Replace certificate spreadsheets and expiry calendars with one governed view of your certificate estate.

Platform configuration, connector coverage and service scope are tailored to each organisation and confirmed through the agreed service schedule.

Certificates become operational risk when nobody has the complete picture.

Unknown certificates, manually maintained spreadsheets, fragmented certificate authorities and inconsistent ownership create avoidable outages and assurance gaps.

CertAssura obtains certificate dates and technical metadata from enrolled TLS endpoints, helping teams replace expiry calendars with continuous, accountable visibility.

Continuous visibility

Discover certificates everywhere

Build and maintain one continuously updated certificate inventory across internet-facing and private infrastructure—without manually entering certificate dates.

Public / Internet External discovery
WebsitesPublic APIsInternet-facing gatewaysCloud endpoints
Authorised endpoints TLS inspection
CertAssura Cloud One certificate inventory
InventoryMonitoringLifecycle
Outbound HTTPS / 443 No inbound connection
Customer private network Internal discovery
CertAssura Discovery Agent

WindowsLinux

FirewallsF5 / load balancersVPN gatewaysIISNginx / ApacheReverse proxiesNetwork appliancesInternal applications / APIs
01

External certificate discovery

See the certificate presented by every enrolled public service

Register authorised FQDN or IP endpoints and CertAssura inspects the certificate presented by each TLS service. Periodic reassessment keeps the inventory aligned with certificate changes and approaching expiry; it is scoped discovery, not unrestricted Internet-wide scanning.

Enrolled endpointTLS inspectionContinuous monitoring
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Internal certificate discovery

Bring private infrastructure into the same operating view

Deploy the CertAssura Discovery Agent inside the customer environment to inspect authorised internal TLS endpoints locally. The agent reports certificate inventory and health information to the organisation's CertAssura tenant over outbound HTTPS.

Discovery AgentWindowsLinux

Private-network security model

Local discovery. Customer-controlled scope. Outbound-only reporting.

Internal management interfaces stay private. CertAssura does not need an inbound route into the customer network, and separate agents can serve distinct locations or segmented security zones.

  • Windows and Linux deployment
  • Customer-authorised FQDNs, IPs, ranges and ports
  • Local TLS inspection inside the private network
  • Outbound HTTPS connectivity to CertAssura
  • No inbound connection into the customer network
  • Multiple agents for separate sites, networks and security zones

A trusted system of record

Complete certificate inventory

Understand certificate health, risk, ownership and policy from one operating view. Statuses shown here illustrate the management model rather than customer data.

01

Healthy

Current and policy-aligned

02

Expiring <30 days

Renewal attention

03

Critical <7 days

Immediate escalation

04

Expired

Service and trust risk

05

Unknown owner

Accountability gap

06

Policy violation

Governance exception

07

Weak cryptography

Cryptographic risk

End-to-end control

The complete certificate lifecycle

Move from continuous visibility to owned action in a repeatable operating model, with policy, approval and audit evidence around every management transition.

  1. 01 Discover
  2. 02 Inventory
  3. 03 Monitor
  4. 04 Alert
  5. 05 Renew
  6. 06 Deploy
  7. 07 Verify
  8. 08 Audit

Reliable renewal

Orchestrate renewal with the right controls

Where supported management interfaces and integrations are available, CertAssura can orchestrate certificate issuance, renewal and deployment while preserving policy, approval, security and audit controls.

  • ACME and certificate-authority workflows
  • DNS-based domain-control validation where appropriate
  • API-driven lifecycle orchestration
  • Supported platform and connector deployment paths
  • Notifications, escalation and failure handling
PolicyAuthorise
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CAIssue
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ConnectorDeploy
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AssuranceVerify

Beyond the public web

Discover certificates where TLS actually lives

Standards-based TLS inspection provides visibility across web servers, gateways, appliances, cloud and application environments. Discovery does not depend on a vendor-specific API simply to observe the certificate presented by an authorised endpoint.

Microsoft IISF5 BIG-IPNginxApacheKubernetesMicrosoft AzureAWSCloudflareApplication gatewaysFirewallsVPN gatewaysNetwork appliancesInternal applicationsInternal APIsReverse proxiesLoad balancers

Clear architectural boundaries

Broad discovery. Controlled management.

Seeing a certificate and changing it are different operations. CertAssura keeps that distinction explicit.

Discovery & monitoring

Protocol-based visibility across TLS-enabled infrastructure

An enrolled endpoint can be inspected using the TLS protocol to obtain its presented certificate and health information. This enables consistent discovery across a broad range of infrastructure without requiring device credentials merely to read the public certificate.

Deployment & automation

Integration-led lifecycle actions with explicit authorisation

Issuing, renewing or replacing a certificate can require supported certificate-authority, operating-system, cloud, appliance or vendor management interfaces. The approved automation path and credentials are defined for each environment.

Authorised by design

Discovery is limited to customer-enrolled assets and customer-controlled internal scope. Management actions require appropriate authority; issuance and renewal can also require domain-control validation. DNS validation is applied where appropriate—it is not required merely to observe a certificate already presented by a TLS service. Integration credentials and secrets are handled through appropriate secure mechanisms.

CA-neutral by design

Work across certificate authorities

Preserve choice and commercial flexibility while applying consistent lifecycle governance across public trust, private trust and standards-based automation.

Public certificate authorities

Coordinate commercial and automated public trust certificates while retaining existing enterprise CA relationships.

Private PKI

Bring internally trusted certificates and private issuance workflows into the same governed lifecycle view.

ACME certificate authorities

Use standards-based issuance and renewal paths with controlled account, challenge and deployment workflows.

Certificate authority and connector coverage is configured to the agreed deployment scope. Example ecosystems can include Microsoft private PKI, DigiCert, Sectigo, Let's Encrypt and Google Trust Services.

Policy and accountability

Govern certificates as critical digital assets

Translate certificate standards into clear, enforceable policy and keep ownership visible from initial request through revocation.

Approved issuers
Allowed algorithms
Minimum key strength
Certificate lifetime
Wildcard restrictions
Named ownership
Environment classification
Approval workflows

Evidence that stands up to review

Reporting and compliance

Give operations, security, risk and audit teams a consistent view of certificate exposure, lifecycle performance and accountable decisions.

01 Expiry exposure
02 Certificate estate
03 Issuer distribution
04 Certificate risk
05 Policy violations
06 Renewal outcomes
07 Certificate ownership
08 Audit history

Digital trust at enterprise scale

Ready for an evolving trust landscape

Use one governance foundation as certificate lifetimes shorten, machine identities expand and cryptographic requirements change.

Machine identity

Govern certificates as machine identities become more numerous, dynamic and business-critical.

mTLS

Apply lifecycle discipline to mutual-authentication certificates across services and environments.

Code signing

Extend ownership, policy and audit principles to software-signing trust.

S/MIME

Support governed certificate use for trusted email identity and encryption.

Crypto-agility

Maintain the inventory and policy context needed to respond to algorithm, lifetime and post-quantum change.

Certificate assurance, connected to the wider security picture

CertAssura is the certificate lifecycle and digital trust management product in the 3Comp Secure family. It is designed to provide bounded certificate evidence and owned lifecycle actions without replacing the responsibilities of governance, controls, posture or remediation products.

TLS discovery is standards-based across authorised endpoints. Certificate issuance, renewal and deployment use supported management interfaces and integrations; the precise automation paths in scope are confirmed for each deployment.

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