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Sectigo Certificate Manager · Automated CLM Platform
Best Certificate Lifecycle Management Platform
Overview
Sectigo is the most innovative provider of certificate lifecycle management (CLM), delivering comprehensive solutions that secure human and machine identities for 65% of the Fortune 500. Sectigo's automated, cloud-native CLM platform issues and manages digital certificates across all certificate authorities (CAs) to simplify and improve security protocols within the enterprise. Sectigo is one of the largest, longest-standing, and most reputable CAs with more than 700,000 customers, six combined active seats in the CA/Browser Forum and ETSI, and two decades of delivering unparalleled digital trust.
Key Capabilities
The digital trustlandscape has fundamentally changed. Shrinking lifespans, growing certificatevolumes, and looming post-quantum disruption have created a new operatingreality that manual processes can no longer sustain.
What was once abackground task is now a business risk. As certificate lifespans move toward 47days and machine identities continue to grow, organizations are being forced tomanage significantly more certificates—more frequently, and with far lessmargin for error. The result is a hidden risk crisis, where poor visibility,fragmented tools, and manual workflows lead to outages, compliance gaps, andoperational strain. Sectigo Certificate Manager (SCM) addresses this challengeby delivering Simplicity at Scale through a cloud-native platform built fororchestrated automation—a coordinated approach that transforms certificatemanagement from isolated tasks into streamlined, reliable operations.
- Centralized Visibility and Control Without Complexity: A staggering72% of organizations currently lack a complete certificate inventory, leavingthem flying blind regarding their true cryptographic footprint. SCM provides asingle pane of glass across public and private certificate environments, enablingorganizations to discover, inventory, and manage every certificate from oneplace. This eliminates blind spots and gives IT teams the visibility andcontrol needed to prevent outages and enforce governance with confidence. SCMeliminates the risk of silent outages caused by human-driven errors in therenewal chain.
- Automated Lifecycle Management at EnterpriseScale: SCM replaces manual, error-prone processes withACME-native automation and 50+ integrations, turning certificate lifecycletasks into a predictable, low-touch operation. Organizations can manage100,000+ certificates without scaling resources—reducing operational overheadwhile keeping pace with rapidly shrinking lifespans.
- Orchestrated Automation Across ComplexEnvironments
Rather than automating individual tasks in isolation, SCM coordinatesdiscovery, issuance, renewal, deployment, and validation through a unifiedworkflow. This reduces fragmentation, streamlines operations across hybrid andmulti-cloud environments, and ensures teams can adapt as certificate complexitygrows - Quantum-Readiness and Crypto Agility The Quantum Apocalypse—the point at whichquantum computers can break today's public-key encryption—presents anexistential threat to long-term data integrity. SCM provides a technicalroadmap for this transition through its PQC Labs, which allows enterprises totest NIST-aligned Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) certificates in a securesandbox. Furthermore, with Private PQC in SCM, Sectigo enables quantumreadiness by allowing organizations to test and manage PQC certificates withinexisting workflows and without disrupting current operations, while supportingemerging CA/Browser Forum approaches to PQC certificate issuance.
By bringing visibility,automation, orchestration and quantum-readiness together, SCM reduces hiddenrisk, simplifies trust operations, and ensures organizations can scale securelyas change accelerates.
How we are different
Sectigo stands apart by delivering more than certificate automation, it provides a simpler, more controlled way for organizations to operate digital trust at scale. While many providers offer basic certificate issuance, Sectigo provides a comprehensive ecosystem backed by validated results and world-class expertise.
The business case for Sectigo is anchored by several distinct proof points:
- Rapid time to value: According to a Forrester TEI study, SCM delivers a 243% ROI with a payback period of less than six months. For a global enterprise, this results in a risk-adjusted three-year Net Present Value (NPV) of $3.39 million.
- Rooted in trust: As one of the industry's most trusted certificate authorities, Sectigo actively shapes and upholds global standards through its leadership in the CA/Browser Forum and operation of crt.sh, reinforcing transparency and accountability. This foundation ensures digital trust operations are built on credible issuance, rigorous governance, and consistent oversight across the entire lifecycle. That same CA-grade integrity translates into real customer value reflected in a 98% retention rate.
- SCM is the platform of choice for some of the world's largest organizations, including 65% of the Fortune 500.
- Customers (via G2) have ranked SCM as a leader in certificate lifecycle management for 3 straight years, and #1 for user satisfaction.
Ultimately, Sectigo is different because it helps organizations move from fragmented, reactive certificate management to a more orchestrated, full-visibility and scalable approach, while supporting customers through it all. Sectigo ensures enterprises are prepared for both today's operational hurdles and the looming quantum threat.
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