Best Practices for Certificate Management (PKI & TLS) | AppViewX
Stop TLS outages before they start. Learn the five certificate management practices security teams use to stay compliant and always on.
See a short demo of AppViewX AVX ONE (CLM) automating discovery, inventory, auto renewal, key protection, and monitoring across hybrid clouds.
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In this 30 minute webinar, AppViewX walks through the certificate lifecycle, CSR to issuance to deployment and the practical steps to prevent outages: enterprise wide visibility, a central certificate inventory, policy driven crypto agility, zero touch private key protection (HSM or vault), and continuous monitoring with CT log correlation. We wrap with a concise AVX ONE CLM demo showing discovery, click to renew/push, and actionable reporting.
00:00 Welcome and agenda: Best Practices for Certificate Management
02:40 Certificate lifecycle explained: CSR to issuance to deployment
03:14 Discovery and inventory: map certs to apps, servers and IoT
04:22 Preventing outages: uptime-first monitoring and alerts
05:00 Private key protection: HSM vs Vault vs software keystore
06:00 Renewal and revocation: automate before expiry and compromise
06:34 Top obstacles: manual processes, silos, weak RBAC
10:43 Core CLM principles: automate, centralize, simplify
12:48 Best Practice 1: Enterprise-wide visibility (CA and endpoint scans)
15:53 Best Practice 2: Central inventory and delegated ownership
17:14 Best Practice 3: Policy enforcement, crypto agility and short-lived certs
20:11 Best Practice 4: Remove human access to private keys (zero touch)
21:50 Best Practice 5: Continuous monitoring and CT log correlation
22:50 Platform demo: Cert+ CLM: plugins for CAs, DNS CAA, HSMs, devices
24:06 Unified certificate view: CA to endpoint mapping, click to renew or push, APIs (Terraform and Jenkins)
28:03 Reporting dashboards: expiries by month, key algorithms, stale or orphan certs
29:48 Benefits and next steps plus live Q and A