Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) as a Service

Digital certificates are the backbone of modern security. They protect authentication, data encryption, device trust, APIs, cloud workloads, microservices, and secure network access. As organisations accelerate cloud adoption, extend their digital perimeter, and expand DevOps and IoT environments, managing certificates becomes exponentially more complex.

This creates a new risk: certificate sprawl — certificates scattered across teams, platforms, and systems, with no central visibility or ownership. Without automation, renewals are missed, weak certificates slip through, and unexpected outages disrupt operations.

SecureSME Certificate Lifecycle Management as a Service (CLMaaS) solves this challenge. Powered by Cogito’s Jellyfish platform, SecureSME gives organisations a centralised, automated, intelligent certificate lifecycle management solution that prevents outages, enforces policy, and delivers complete visibility across every certificate and every CA.

It goes beyond traditional certificate tracking. It is a digital trust operations platform designed for enterprise and government environments.

A unified Certificate Lifecycle Management platform

SecureSME continuously manages every stage of the certificate lifecycle — discovery, issuance, renewal, replacement, and revocation — across cloud, on-premises, containers, and hybrid environments.

Where legacy solutions are a separate set of individual tools joined together, Jellyfish was designed as a single product. This provides better performance, versatility and visibility. This allows such features as building relationships between certificates, the organisations and people that issued them and the software and devices that they are used on.

Discovery — Full Visibility Across Every Certificate

Issuance — Standardised and Automated Certificate Provisioning

Renewal — Zero-Touch Renewal That Eliminates Outages

Revocation — Governed and Controlled Certificate Retirement

Benefits of SecureSME CLMaaS

1. Prevent Certificate Outages

Automated discovery, monitoring, and renewal eliminate unexpected expiries and service disruptions.

2. Complete Certificate Inventory

Gain a consolidated view across all certificates, all CAs, and all environments — cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and containerised.

3. Lower Operational Overhead

Automation reduces manual effort, frees IT and security teams, and simplifies certificate management at scale.

4. Stronger Security Posture

SecureSME helps organisations: Remove rogue or shadow certificates; Enforce crypto and trust policies; Detect vulnerable or non-compliant certificates; Maintain consistent trust across all environments

5. Streamlined Governance

Centralised policy, audit trails, and compliance reporting simplify assurance and security governance.

Automation and Alerting — Replace Manual Work with Intelligent Controls

SecureSME CLMaaS is engineered to reduce manual effort, remove human error, and minimise operational overhead.

Automation capabilities include:

Automated issuance, renewal, and replacement
Identity-based certificate assignment
Policy-driven certificate creation
Per-owner or per-team notifications
Custom expiry thresholds
Webhooks for real-time automation
SIEM integration
ITSM ticketing (ServiceNow, Remedy, Jira)

SecureSME alerts teams to:

Certificates nearing expiry
Weak keys or insecure algorithms
Misconfigured chains and trust issues
Rogue or unauthorised certificates
Failed renewals or deployment issues
Untrusted CA usage

Instead of reacting to incidents, organisations gain proactive certificate security and operational certainty.

Governance and Compliance — Built for Security-Critical Environments

Strong certificate governance is essential for meeting security, regulatory, and audit requirements. SecureSME provides centralised policy control aligned with leading industry frameworks.

Governance capabilities include:

Certificate policy enforcement
Standardised key and algorithm requirements
Assigned ownership and accountability
Role-based access and separation of duties
Full certificate lifecycle audit trails
Automated evidence collection and compliance reporting

SecureSME supports reporting aligned with:

ISO/IEC 27001:2022
Australian Government ISM
DISP
SOC 2
Essential Eight
Internal security and governance frameworks

All events are available via dashboards, SIEM connectors, APIs, and exportable reports — reducing audit effort and strengthening assurance.

API Integrations — Built for Enterprise, Cloud, and DevOps.

SecureSME integrates natively with enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, automation frameworks, and DevOps pipelines.

SecureSME fits into your existing ecosystem without disruption.

Integrations capabilities include:

REST API for full automation
Webhooks for real-time events
ServiceNow, BMC, Jira integrations
CI/CD integration (GitLab, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions
Kubernetes and container platform integrations

Supported certificate protocols:

ACME / ACME+
CMP / EST
SCEP
Auto-Enrollment
CA polling APIs

More than Just a CLM

The Jellyfish CLM functions as a full key and credential management service, managing keys of all type and in all locations. Everything from keys stored in software, to smartcards, tokens and even Hardware Security Modules.

The Jellyfish CLM also has CA, CMS, CMDB, IdAM and many other components embeded in the one platform.

CLM On-Prem vs SecureSME CLMaaS

Feature	On-Prem CLM	SecureSME CLMaaS
Discovery Coverage	Limited	Full agentless + agent-based discovery
Automation	Partial	Comprehensive ACME+, SCEP, CMP, REST
Alerting	Basic	Advanced, configurable, SIEM-ready
Governance	Manual	Automated, policy-driven governance
Cost	High (infrastructure + admin)	Predictable subscription model
Scaling	Difficult	Built-in elasticity and cloud scalability

Frequently Asked Questions

Take control of your certificate environment today.

Unify certificate lifecycle management, eliminate outages, and strengthen trust across your organisation.

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