DigiCert Trust Lifecycle Manager
Certificate lifecycle management (CLM) software
SSL & TLS certificates software
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What is DigiCert Trust Lifecycle Manager
DigiCert Trust Lifecycle Manager is a certificate lifecycle management platform used to discover, issue, deploy, renew, and revoke digital certificates across enterprise environments. It targets security, PKI, and infrastructure teams managing TLS/SSL certificates for web services, internal applications, devices, and workloads. The product emphasizes centralized inventory and policy-based automation across multiple certificate authorities and heterogeneous infrastructure, with integrations for common servers, load balancers, and DevOps tooling.
Centralized certificate inventory
The platform provides a consolidated view of certificates and their metadata to help teams track ownership, expiration, and usage. This supports operational tasks such as renewal planning and incident response when certificates are compromised or misissued. Central reporting helps reduce reliance on spreadsheets and ad-hoc scripts for certificate tracking.
Automation for renewals and deployment
Trust Lifecycle Manager supports workflow automation for certificate enrollment, renewal, and replacement to reduce manual handling. Automation helps lower the risk of service outages caused by expired certificates and improves consistency of certificate configuration. It is designed to operate across mixed environments where certificates exist on different platforms and endpoints.
Enterprise policy and governance
The product supports policy controls around certificate issuance and lifecycle actions, which helps standardize cryptographic and operational requirements. Governance features can help enforce approved certificate profiles, key sizes, and validity periods aligned with internal standards. This is useful for organizations that need auditable controls across multiple teams and business units.
Integration effort varies by environment
Coverage and depth of automation depend on the specific endpoints in use (for example, certain network appliances, legacy platforms, or custom applications). Some deployments require connector configuration, scripting, or professional services to reach full automation. Organizations with highly customized infrastructure should expect integration testing and ongoing maintenance work.
Complexity for smaller teams
The product is oriented toward enterprise-scale certificate operations and governance, which can introduce administrative overhead. Smaller organizations with limited certificate volume may find the feature set broader than needed. In those cases, simpler managed certificate options may require less setup and fewer operational processes.
Not a general-purpose KMS
While it supports certificate and key lifecycle workflows, it is not positioned as a general-purpose encryption key management service for application secrets across all use cases. Teams may still need separate tooling for broader key management, secret storage, or HSM-backed application key workflows. This can lead to a multi-tool architecture for end-to-end cryptographic operations.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Essentials | Contact sales — seat-based (price not published on DigiCert site) | Current licensing model (introduced Oct 2025) uses unified seat licenses; includes discovery, management, and automation capabilities; seats consumed for servers, sites, or users. |
| Advanced | Contact sales — seat-based (price not published on DigiCert site) | Higher-tier management capabilities than Essentials (details and seat pricing vary by plan); includes the same seat licensing model. |
| Premium | Contact sales — seat-based (price not published on DigiCert site) | Top-tier plan for enterprise PKI and certificate management; seat pricing varies and requires contacting DigiCert. |
Notes: DigiCert’s official documentation states seat pricing varies by plan and directs prospective customers to contact DigiCert for pricing details. The product also has a legacy licensing model (for subscriptions started before Oct 2025) that uses multiple seat types (User, Device, Server, Organization, Imported, Discovery, Certificate management) described in the docs.
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DigiCert, Inc.
Lehi, Utah, USA
2003
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