As industry mandates reduce certificate lifespans, IT teams face a significant increase in manual workload - up to 6x more certificate renewals annually.
An effective certificate automation platform is key to relieve IT teams of this burden and reduce the risk of outages.
ACME is a popular protocol for automating certificate renewals that is supported by many server technologies. DigiCert includes ACME with each TLS certificate in CertCentral making it easy for customers to achieve foundational automation.
Legacy technologies, however, may not support ACME and ACME does not support all automation use cases.
ACME is a powerful SSL certificate automation tool to help implement your enterprise automation strategy, but it alone cannot deliver certificate automation and lifecycle management for all use cases.
For organization-wide CLM automation you need a modern solution that includes:
Exponential growth in machine identities, short-lived certificates, and the impact of quantum computing demand a flexible and responsive approach to public key infrastructures and certificate lifecycle management.
Read our white paper, Modernize Your PKI for Security, Efficiency and Agility, to understand the business benefits of PKI modernization, what to look for in a solution, and how doing so advances your strategy for cryptographic agility.
As part of future proofing to prepare for events like quantum computing, organizations need to migrate their cryptography to approved quantum-safe algorithms potentially multiple times as the standards evolve. It is critical to develop now the ability to continuously discover and manage certificates and certificate automation at-scale.