KeyTalk · Certificate Lifecycle Management

Never let a certificate expire again.

KeyTalk is a CA-independent Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) and PKI platform. It discovers every certificate, automates issuance, renewal and revocation across public and private CAs, and keeps TLS/SSL, S/MIME and device certificates valid — so outages, blind spots and manual spreadsheets are gone for good.

CLM automation Private + public CA TLS · S/MIME · device Crypto-agile On-prem · cloud · SaaS
keytalk-ckms · certificate inventory Certificate inventory Discovered across every CA · auto-renewed before expiry DOMAIN CA VALIDITY *.corp.example DigiCert 289d · valid portal.example Sectigo expiring 3d auto-renewed · 365d ✓ vpn.corp.example Private CA 90d · valid iot-fleet · 1,204 devices Private CA auto-rotating Discovery scan finding certs… THIS MONTH 128 auto-renewed 0 outages CAs DigiCert · Sectigo GlobalSign · Private Protocols ACME · SCEP
The basics

What is Certificate Lifecycle Management?

Every certificate has a lifespan — and every expired or rogue certificate is a potential outage or breach. CLM automates the whole lifecycle so certificates are always found, valid and trusted, without manual effort.

Discover

Scan the network to find every certificate and key — internal and external — and end reliance on spreadsheets.

Automate

Issue, deploy and renew certificates automatically to servers, devices and users — before they ever expire.

Inventory

One central, always-current repository of every certificate, its key, owner, CA and expiry — full visibility.

Govern

Enforce crypto policy, roles and approvals — and stay crypto-agile for post-quantum readiness.

Certificate types TLS / SSL S/MIME (email) Device & IoT Client / mTLS Code signing
The challenge

One forgotten certificate can take a whole service down.

As certificate volumes explode and lifespans shrink, manual tracking simply doesn't scale — and a single missed renewal means an outage, a browser warning, or a security gap.

Manual certificate management

  • Certificates tracked in spreadsheets and calendar reminders
  • Unknown, rogue and expiring certificates hidden across the network
  • Outages and browser warnings from missed renewals
  • Locked in to a single CA, with no crypto-agility

With KeyTalk

  • One live inventory of every certificate and key
  • Automated discovery finds what you didn't know you had
  • Auto-renewal and deployment — zero surprise expiries
  • CA-independent, with a private CA and crypto-agility built in
One platform, full lifecycle

Everything you need to run PKI and certificates.

Discovery, automation, a built-in private CA and multi-CA support — CLM and PKI together, easy, organized and error-free.

Certificate discovery

A Smart Security Scan finds every certificate and key across your network and consolidates them in one repository.

Automated issuance & renewal

Deploy and renew certificates automatically to servers, network devices and endpoints — with optional approval steps.

Central inventory

A single, always-current source of truth for every certificate — owner, CA, key, chain, expiry and policy.

CA-independent

Integrates with public CAs — DigiCert, GlobalSign, Sectigo — so you're never locked in to one provider.

Built-in private CA

Issue internal and short-lived certificates from your existing Root CA or a new standalone Root CA.

Policy & RBAC

Enforce crypto standards, key length and issuance policy, with role-based access, AD/Azure AD and approvals.

Standards & integrations

ACME, SCEP, CRL and OCSP, plus MDM (Intune, MobileIron), HSMs, load balancers and Citrix.

Crypto-agility

Swap algorithms and CAs quickly and prepare for post-quantum cryptography without re-architecting.

Deploy your way

A virtual appliance on VMware/Hyper-V, on-premise, private/public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), or as-a-Service.

The certificate lifecycle

Automated from first request to final revocation.

KeyTalk closes the loop on every certificate. It discovers what exists, enrolls and provisions new certificates, monitors validity and policy, renews automatically before expiry, and cleanly revokes what's retired — continuously, without manual work.

No expiry surprises

Certificates renew automatically ahead of expiry — outages and browser warnings simply stop happening.

Policy at every step

Every issuance and renewal follows your crypto policy, with approvals and a full audit trail.

Any certificate, any CA

TLS/SSL, S/MIME and device certificates from public or private CAs — all in one loop.

CLM lifecycle● continuous · automated
certificate Discover scan & find Enroll request · CSR Provision deploy Monitor expiry & policy Renew auto Revoke retire
The loop never stops — certificates stay valid, always
Three solutions, one platform

Automate every kind of certificate.

Whatever needs a certificate — a web server, a mailbox or a device — KeyTalk provisions and renews it automatically.

TLS / SSL lifecycle

Discover and automate TLS/SSL certificates across servers, load balancers and devices — no more expiry-driven outages, from one console.

S/MIME automation

Automate S/MIME signing and encryption certificates to users and devices — the ideal first line of defence against Business Email Compromise (BEC/EAC), with native Exchange Online and Outlook auto-config.

Device authentication

Issue and manage device identity certificates for IoT, Wi-Fi/802.1x, VPN and mTLS — integrated with Intune and MobileIron.

KeyTalk CKMS · lifecycle events
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Live certificate eventsautomated
CA-independent platform

One control plane for all your certificates.

KeyTalk sits between your infrastructure and every CA — public or private — automating the whole lifecycle and giving you a single, policy-driven control plane. Deploy it as a virtual appliance, on-premise, in the cloud, or consume it as a service.

Multi-CA & private CA

Public CAs plus a built-in private CA and short-lived certificates — all managed together.

Enterprise integrations

AD / Azure AD, HSMs, MDM, load balancers and Citrix, over SCEP, ACME, CRL and OCSP.

Reports, alerts & audit

Comprehensive reporting, expiry notifications and a full audit trail for compliance.

From chaos to control

Up and running in four steps.

Deploy the appliance, discover what you already have, automate enrollment and renewal, then let KeyTalk keep every certificate valid — continuously.

STEP 01

Deploy

Stand up the KeyTalk appliance on VMware/Hyper-V, on-prem, cloud or as-a-Service.

STEP 02

Discover

Scan the network to inventory every existing certificate and key in one repository.

STEP 03

Automate

Connect your CAs and endpoints, set policy, and automate issuance and renewal.

STEP 04

Stay valid

KeyTalk renews ahead of expiry and enforces policy — with reports, alerts and audit.

ZeroCertificate-expiry outages
100M+Endpoints served, just-in-time
Any CAPublic + built-in private CA
AES-256Secrets & backups encrypted
Deployed across the enterprise

Where KeyTalk fits.

Any organisation whose services, people and devices depend on certificates staying valid and trusted.

Large IT estates

Thousands of certificates

Discover and automate sprawling TLS/SSL inventories across data centers, cloud and edge.

No more spreadsheets — one live source of truth.

Banking · Regulated

Policy & audit

Enforce crypto standards and separation of duties with a complete, exportable audit trail.

Evidence-ready for the auditor.

IoT · OT · Manufacturing

Device identity at scale

Issue and rotate device certificates for fleets over SCEP/ACME and MDM.

Trusted identity for every device.

Email security

S/MIME everywhere

Automatically provision signing and encryption certificates to every mailbox and device.

Secure email without the manual work.

CKMS 7 · product facts

Enterprise-grade specs, standards and scale.

KeyTalk CKMS is a hardened virtual appliance built on open standards — CA vendor-neutral and proven in production from a single site to hundreds of millions of endpoints.

ISO 11770-1:2010RFC X.509AES-256TPM 2.0HSM supportAir-gapped24/7 support100% EU · NL

Cryptography

  • RSA 2048–8192
  • ECC up to 521-bit
  • PQC-ready
  • AES-256 secrets
  • AES-256 backups
  • ISO 11770-1:2010
  • RFC X.509
  • key & cert roll-over

CAs & PKI

  • KeyTalk private CA
  • MS ADCS
  • EJBCA
  • DigiCert
  • GlobalSign
  • Sectigo
  • automated CSR
  • revocation & CDP

Identity & auth

  • Active Directory
  • Kerberos
  • LDAP
  • Azure AD
  • RADIUS
  • MySQL
  • TPM 2.0
  • key attestation
  • HSM

Protocols & APIs

  • REST API
  • SCEP
  • ACME
  • SNI
  • CRL / OCSP
  • Syslog / SIEM

Endpoints & MDM

  • Laptop · desktop · mobile
  • Intune
  • MobileIron
  • Workspace ONE UEM
  • native Exchange Online
  • Outlook S/MIME auto-config
  • shared mailbox

Deployment & ops

  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  • MySQL 8
  • High Availability
  • VMware · Hyper-V
  • Azure · AWS · Google
  • air-gapped
  • multi-tenant
  • self-service portal
  • load balancer
  • hourly auto-updates
  • ~5-min HA upgrade
  • 100M+ endpoints

Source: KeyTalk CKMS 7 product fact sheet. Free Proof-of-Concept and feature customization available — ask Network365.

CKMS 7 · key features

KeyTalk Key Features

The complete CKMS feature set at a glance — switch between certificate & security capabilities and the platform, deployment and operations that run them.

Laptop, desktop & mobile support
S/MIME support
Shared mailbox S/MIME
Native Exchange Online support
Automated Outlook S/MIME config
Server (application) support
Webserver SNI support
Internal private CA
3rd-party private CA support
MS ADCS · EJBCA
Partnered CA providers
DigiCert · GlobalSign · Sectigo
Revocation & CDP support
CSR certificate key length
RSA 2048–8192 · ECC 521 ready
Certificate & key roll-over
S/MIME, etc.
Certificate discovery
Dedicated virtual appliance
Secret encryption
AES 256
HSM support
TPM 2.0 support
Key attestation support
REST API support
SCEP support
ACME support
How it compares

KeyTalk vs. other CLM / PKI tools.

How an all-in-one, CA-independent CLM with a built-in private CA compares with enterprise suites like Venafi, Keyfactor and DigiCert.

Capability KeyTalkCLM + PKI VenafiEnterprise CLM KeyfactorCLM + PKI DigiCertCA + CertCentral
CA-independent (multi public CA)CA-tied
Built-in private CAadd-onpartial
Certificate discovery & inventory
TLS + S/MIME + device certsmostly TLSpartial
On-prem, cloud & as-a-ServiceSaaS-first
Fast to deploy & SME-friendlyenterpriseenterprise

Comparison is a general positioning guide based on each vendor's publicly stated focus; capabilities evolve — ask Network365 for a current, side-by-side evaluation for your environment.

KeyTalk CLM & PKI FAQ

KeyTalk · Network365

Take control of every certificate.

Discover what you have, automate the lifecycle and never suffer a certificate outage again. Network365 will scope, deploy and support KeyTalk CLM & PKI end to end.