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Sectigo, a pioneer in automated Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) and digital certificates, today announced a new brand identity and corporate positioning centred on a clear vision: delivering Simplicity at Scale as digital trust grows more complex, distributed and critical to operations. Delivered through Sectigo Certificate Manager (SCM), this approach enables a more coordinated way to automate certificate management at scale. For decades, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and the digital certificates within it operated quietly in the background. That has changed. Shorter certificate lifespans, growing certificate volumes across distributed environments and accelerating PQC migration timelines are placing mounting strain on IT and security teams. Pushing traditional tools The result is a growing, often hidden risk: certificates expiring more frequently across systems with less room for error, pushing traditional tools and fragmented automation beyond what they can sustain. “Digital trust has evolved faster than most organisations anticipated, and how it is managed must evolve just as quickly,” said Kevin Weiss, Chief Executive Officer at Sectigo. “We’ve spent years building a platform to support digital trust at global scale, and now we’re stepping forward to help customers with a more coordinated approach to automation. Our focus is delivering Simplicity at Scale, bringing visibility, automation and governance together so organisations can eliminate hidden risks. As a global leader in digital trust, Sectigo is defining the standard for how organisations secure and manage their future.” Replacing fragmented scripts To respond to this shift, Sectigo is modernising how automation is delivered through SCM, replacing fragmented scripts, siloed tools and tasks with a coordinated approach. The result is a simpler, more scalable way to manage certificates, reducing complexity today while preparing organisations for what’s next. This is enabled through: Centralised automation: Automate beyond renewals, including issuance, validation, deployment, replacement and revocation from a single platform, streamlining operations and minimising manual work. Deeper integration with AI-assisted workflows with governance intact: Connect AI agents and manage certificates through natural language, enabling more intuitive automation while preserving control and visibility across trust critical environments. Expanded visibility and control across certificate authorities (CAs): Discover, monitor and manage certificates across public and private CAs, hybrid environments and critical systems through an expanding set of CA connectors, providing centralised visibility and control without managing each separately. Certificate volumes grow Reduced friction in domain validation: Automate domain control validation (DCV), reducing bottlenecks as validation cycles outpace certificate lifespans and keeping renewals consistent as certificate volumes grow. Readiness for cryptographic change: With Private PQC in SCM, test and manage PQC certificates within existing workflows without disrupting current operations, while aligning with emerging CA/Browser Forum approaches to PQC certificate issuance. Increasingly complex environments “We’re not just repositioning how we talk about automation, we’re putting it into practice,” said Mark Bilger, Chief Product and Engineering Officer at Sectigo. “Through Sectigo Certificate Manager, our orchestrated approach brings the full certificate lifecycle into one place, so customers can rely on the platform they already know and trust to manage digital trust at scale as complexity grows.” Sectigo’s partner ecosystem plays a critical role in bringing its approach to market. Through the Sectigo Partner Platform (SPP), managed service providers can deliver CLM as a recurring managed service, giving customers greater choice in how they automate, manage and govern certificates across increasingly complex environments. Revenue-generating managed service “Partners are essential to how customers achieve simplicity at scale,” said Jairo Fraile, Vice President, Global Partner Sales, at Sectigo. “With the Sectigo Partner Platform, partners can extend how digital trust is delivered while also turning certificate lifecycle management into a revenue-generating managed service.” Sectigo has introduced a new visual brand identity that underscores its evolution into a more platform-led digital trust company. Designed to embody clarity, confidence and momentum, the refreshed logo and brand system sharpen Sectigo’s story and value while reinforcing its focus on dependable digital trust today and innovation for the next era of cryptographic change. “This rebrand marks an important milestone for Sectigo, reflecting our commitment to aligning every part of how we operate and innovate to help customers manage complexity today and stay ahead of what’s next,” adds Weiss.

Sectigo, a pioneer in digital certificates and automated Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM), and Altron Security, a pioneering provider of holistic identity and digital security solutions in South Africa, now announced a strategic channel partnership.  This collaboration enables Altron Security to leverage Sectigo's cloud-native CLM solutions to further strengthen its digital certificate management offering for customers, ultimately mitigating the risk of business outages due to mismanaged certificates, improving overall security and helping future proof businesses for the quantum era.  Sectigo’s acquisition Sectigo’s acquisition of the Entrust public certificate business has shown a direct alliance with Altron Security Sectigo’s acquisition of the Entrust public certificate business has established a direct partnership with Altron Security, ensuring the continued provision of trusted CLM solutions for transitioning Entrust customers. The structured migration plan from Entrust to Sectigo minimises disruption and supports affected customers throughout the transition. SSL/TLS certificates and PKI solutions "We look forward to collaborating with Altron Security as we expand our footprint in South Africa,” said Jairo Fraile, vice president of global partner sales at Sectigo. “This partnership reinforces our dedication to providing trusted and compliant SSL/TLS certificates and PKI solutions. By working closely with Altron Security, we are ensuring that customers experience a smooth migration process to Sectigo while benefiting from our range of offerings." Sectigo’s flagship product Through this alliance, Altron Security can now offer Sectigo’s flagship product, Sectigo Certificate Manager With the exponential growth in digital certificate usage, the industry faces a significant challenge: the shortening of certificate lifespans. The shift from 398-day certificate renewals to 47-day poses substantial risks for organisations lacking an automation strategy for their PKI environments. Through this partnership, Altron Security can now offer Sectigo’s flagship product, Sectigo Certificate Manager, which delivers the necessary automation and security to prevent certificate lapses, ensuring businesses stay compliant and secure in an ever-evolving digital landscape. Advanced CLM solutions "We are excited to partner with Sectigo, a globally recognised Certificate Authority renowned for its industry leadership,” said Andrew Whittaker, managing director at Altron Security. “Sectigo's significant presence in the CA/Browser Forum underscores its commitment to upholding the highest security standards, ensuring the delivery of trusted and compliant SSL/TLS certificates." "With the shortening of certificate lifespans and increasing security challenges presented by the quantum era, this partnership allows us to provide advanced CLM solutions to the market, empowering businesses to navigate evolving cybersecurity demands confidently.” Altron Security’s overall strategy This partnership with Sectigo builds on Altron Security’s overall strategy in several key ways: Strengthening Market Leadership in Digital Trust: For over 15 years, Altron Security has been the pioneer in South Africa in delivering digital trust solutions. Partnering with Sectigo allows Altron Security to further expand and solidify its position as a pioneer in this field. This collaboration builds on Altron Security’s innovative SSL/TLS certificates and PKI offerings that meet rigorous industry standards, addressing both security and compliance requirements effectively. Expanding Cybersecurity Portfolio: Sectigo Certificate Manager brings deeper automation and faster scalability to Altron Security’s digital certificate management offering. This partnership enables businesses to reduce operational strain, mitigate risks, and maintain compliance with evolving cybersecurity demands. Enhancing Customer Experience & Trust: The transition from Entrust to Sectigo represents an opportunity to deepen customer relationships. By ensuring a smooth migration process and delivering long-term stability through Sectigo’s trusted certificate authority services, combined with Altron Security’s unparallelled support and customer service, this partnership reaffirms the shared focus on providing reliable, scalable, and secure digital solutions tailored to diverse industry needs.

Sectigo, a pioneer in digital certificates and Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM), announced that the company has joined the Pax8 Marketplace, the pioneering cloud commerce marketplace. The partnership introduces Sectigo’s automated, cloud-native CLM solution – Sectigo Certificate Manager for Partners – to Pax8’s network of nearly 40,000 MSPs, marking the first time CLM is available in the Marketplace. SSL/TLS certificates MSPs in the Pax8 network can discover, manage, and automate their clients’ SSL/TLS certificates MSPs in the Pax8 network can now discover, manage, and automate their customers’ SSL/TLS certificates within a single dashboard, removing the complexity behind manual certificate management. The partnership unearths opportunities for channel partners to increase cost efficiencies and encourage customer retention, while significantly reducing the risk of their customers experiencing business interruptions due to mismanaged certificates. Use of digital certificates As businesses accelerate their digital transformation efforts, the use of digital certificates is growing exponentially, leading to an increase in certificate renewals. Organisations globally need to prepare for the industry’s shift to shorter certificate validity periods, which will increase certificate renewals up to 12 times a year, a major challenge for organisations using manual management methods. By partnering with Pax8, Sectigo enables MSPs to seamlessly automate and streamline certificate renewal processes and future-proof systems against evolving cybersecurity challenges, all within a centralised dashboard. Pax8 Marketplace Sectigo enables MSPs to automate and simplify certificate renewal methods and future-proof systems “Sectigo and Pax8 recognise that expired certificates due to manual tracking or human error can expose businesses to security risks, downtime, loss of customer trust, and financial and reputational damage,” said Jairo Fraile, vice president of global partner sales at Sectigo. “We are proud to have been fast-tracked as the first automated Certificate Lifecycle Management solution available in the Pax8 Marketplace. We look forward to empowering thousands of forward-thinking MSPs with an enterprise-grade solution for SMBs to ultimately help future-proof their business with shorter certificate lifespans on the horizon.” Key advantages of the Pax8 partnership Sectigo Certificate Manager for Partners is a comprehensive CLM solution that eliminates the manual burdens associated with certificate management by automating the processes of issuance, installation, renewal and management of public SSL/TLS certificates through the ACME protocol. Key advantages of the Pax8 partnership for MSPs include:  Eliminates the risk of business outages: Organisations that rely on manual certificate management are already at risk due to human error. With shorter certificate lifespans on the horizon, CLM automation eliminates these concerns while simultaneously strengthening security. Help drive cost efficiencies: MSPs can redeploy critical IT/security resources elsewhere, eliminating scalability bottlenecks, which in turn allow MSPs to service more customers without increasing operational overhead. Grow revenue and customer retention: Unlocks new recurring revenue streams for MSPs and expands the range of services managed on behalf of customers. The result is greater customer retention due to embedded security services. Overall security framework “We are committed to continually enhancing our portfolio of security products for MSPs, empowering them to strengthen their security posture. Automated Certificate Lifecycle Management fills a critical gap and is a key piece of that overall security framework,” said Oguo Atuanya, corporate vice president of vendor experience at Pax8. “We also know MSPs want to work with vendors who are easy to collaborate with. Sectigo checks all these boxes and is the only vendor in the Pax8 Marketplace to deliver cloud-native, automated CLM to our partners.”

For many businesses and organisations, the term 'authentication' is synonymous with 'password' or 'multi-factor authentication (MFA)’. However, because today's business ecosystem is complex and stretches across distributed workforces with work from home, BYOD policies, and multiple cloud environments, it is very challenging to efficiently recognise and authenticate identities of people, processes, and devices throughout the enterprise using traditional methods. The problem with passwords For starters, people tend to forget passwords. To make passwords easier to remember, users may store their passwords in a vulnerable file, create passwords using a consistent pattern, or use the same password again and again. If a password is uncovered on one service or from an unprotected spreadsheet, a bad actor could use that same password to access a high-value network, maybe a corporate service or a bank account. Technical problems with password security Not only are passwords easy for today’s hackers to steal, they offer a poor user experience Not only are passwords easy for today’s hackers to steal, they offer a poor user experience and can be a burden to help desks workers. Password security also suffers from a legion of technical problems. For example, if a connected device machine has been infected with screen scraper malware, the malware can gather all visible data, including passwords, and send them back to the bad actor. Captured passwords are commonly sold and purchased in the underground economy, which can lead to a wide range of security problems. The modern way to authenticate - Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) If passwords are too easily intercepted, what is the best certificate authentication approach? The answer is Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)-based authentication, the better option, because it eliminates the password and reduces the time to authenticate. There is no stronger, easier-to-use authentication and encryption solution than the digital identity provided by PKI. Rather than secret-sharing, PKI uses certificates that do all the work behind the scenes, thereby eliminating the burden on users and the human-error accompaniment. PKI works by using an asymmetric cryptographic key pair, consisting of a private key and a public key. These keys function as a pair using incredibly complex cryptographic algorithms to protect identities and data from unauthorised access or use. Public key The public key consists of a long string of apparently random numbers and is used to encrypt a message. This encrypted message can only be decrypted by the associated private key, which is also made of a long string of numbers. This private key is a secret key and is never shared. The key pair is mathematically related, so that whatever is encrypted with a public or private key, can only be decrypted by its corresponding counterpart. Private key The private key is embedded inside the device, on which it sits - on every laptop, phone, IoT device, server and email client The private key is embedded inside the device, on which it sits - on every laptop, phone, IoT device, server and email client. Whenever possible, the private key is stored in a TPM or hardware security module, protecting it from discovery, even if the device is infected with malware or compromised by a hacker. Additionally, the private key would take decades to brute force and the result is that attack attempts fail. The connection between security and usability There is a dynamic relationship between security and usability - the more you try to up the ante on password-based security, the more difficult it becomes to use. The best security investment is one that can be easily deployed and enthusiastically used by employees. Using PKI authentication is both rock solid and seamless to end users. Digital certificates can be easily deployed to every employee device and system using automated tools. Wouldn't it be better and simpler to not have to type in passwords and instead be automatically authenticated and granted proper access? PKI takes us from the stone age of user names and passwords to a better authentication experience.