Overview
The changing dynamics of the data security and threat landscape has made certificate and key lifecycle management more complex and notably harder to keep track of. There are multiple certificates for different operations, often unique to each device and with varying lifecycles.
Then there are passwords, tokens, secrets, tokens, digital certificates, cryptographic keys like SSH/SSL/TLS, machine identities, and a slew of other IAM credentials to be managed and secured.
When these variables are scaled across a global enterprise, certificate management becomes a nightmare for IT Managers—often susceptible to expiration, revocation, or mismanagement when managed manually.
The joint solution allows businesses to effectively manage all machine identities across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure while reducing complexity in ensuring sensitive private keys remain protected.
Fortanix Solution
Keyfactor and Fortanix have partnered to deliver a powerful, integrated solution that combines certificate lifecycle automation with advanced key protection. Keyfactor provides full visibility, policy enforcement, and automation for managing certificates across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, while Fortanix Data Security Manager (DSM) ensures secure generation, storage, and management of private keys using FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certified HSMs.
Together, they enable organizations to simplify operations, enforce policy across all certificate authorities (CAs), and securely manage millions of keys and certificates — whether in the cloud, on-premises, or in IoT devices.
Benefits
Multi-cloud Deployment
The main benefit of the Signing Provider for TMKMS solution is that it ensures that Proof-of-Stake validators can maintain long lived keys securely online with high availability and disaster recovery.
High Availability and Security
The joint solution is an HSM-backed PKI management system that is highly available, secure, and has disaster recovery capabilities.
Advanced Automation
With joint solution as the lifecycle management of Keys and Certificates, processes like key generation, CSR generation, and certificate installation on end device are fully automated.
Simplified Operations
The joint solution requires minimal setup, minimal expertise to operate, and can integrate with your existing systems.
Lower TCO
Using HSMs/KMS with your PKI will prevent key compromise issues that lead to expensive fines and remediation costs.
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