Streamlining Certificate Oversight through Qualys CertView: Automated Renewal and Alerts
In the digital age, digital certificates play a crucial role in ensuring secure access to services. However, managing these certificates can be a challenge for many organizations due to issues like keeping track of expiry dates, chains of trust, and encryption requirements. This is where Qualys CertView comes in, a tool designed to help businesses gain complete visibility into their digital certificates and their underlying configurations.
What is CertView?
CertView is a comprehensive solution for certificate lifecycle management. It allows organizations to create a baseline inventory of all certificates within the enterprise and enforces organizational security standards by notifying stakeholders about upcoming certificate expirations via email, Slack, or PagerDuty.
Key Features of CertView
- Certificate Management: CertView allows creating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) that can be copied and pasted into a field for your Certificate Authority (CA), and then downloads and installs the certificate. It supports certificates issued by DigiCert, Thawte, Mocana, and GeoTrust, and can handle both enrollment, renewal, and auto-renewal processes.
- Wide Coverage: CertView provides coverage for detecting certificates across various estates, including on-premises, external networks, workstations, cloud instances, and Qualys Cloud Agents. This ensures that no certificate goes unnoticed.
- Actionable Dashboard: The latest CertView Actionable Dashboard is available for download and import into your subscription. This dashboard provides a quick assessment of all organizational certificates and risks associated with upcoming expirations.
- Automation: Qualys CertView is expanding its capabilities to support renewals using the ACME protocol, enabling automation of certificate issuance and renewal.
- Risk Management: CertView helps measure, communicate, and eliminate risk for businesses by providing comprehensive measurement and visibility beyond expiry. It uses a simple grading system to categorize and identify weak certificates based on multiple parameters.
- Bulk Deployment: CertView enables bulk deployment of certificates using the Qualys Cloud Agent for upcoming certificate expiration. It also provides coverage for detecting certificates using weak encryptions or unsupported protocols such as SSLv2/SSLv3 or TLSv1.
- Integration: CertView is free for all Qualys VMDR customers and integrates with the Web Application Scanning (WAS) and External Attack Surface Management (EASM) modules of Qualys.
Getting Started with CertView
To start using CertView, Qualys VMDR customers can click on the application menu and select Certificate View. This will provide them with a pre-configured dashboard to proactively manage all digital certificates for internal assets and public cloud resources.
Conclusion
Poorly managed digital certificates can pose significant risks to organizations, leading to outages and loss of customer hours. With CertView, businesses can ensure the security of their digital certificates, making the internet a safer place for everyone. For more information about CertView, you can refer to the official Qualys press releases, company blogs, or product documentation, or contact Qualys directly for authoritative information.
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