Online SSL PKI Manager Features
Greater Administrative Control
The first goal of our Managed PKI account is to centralize certificate PKI management, and grant your administrator the control required to oversee the issuance and management of SSL certificates within your organization.
In a standard SSL management account, requests for new certificates, certificate reissues, etc. are sent directly to our Validation Department for approval.
For Managed PKI accounts, all these requests are routed instead through the account administrator. Only in situations where a new domain is involved (a domain that has never been used inside your account before) will the request ultimately be routed to our Validation Department for approval.
Streamlined Certificate Management
The second goal of Managed PKI is to streamline the certificate management process as much as possible. Because your organization has a dedicated account administrator, who has been authorized to approve or reject requests, requests can be processed on your end in real-time.
Domain Pre-Approval
In a standard account domains and companies are approved, or reapproved, every time an order is placed. Even if you request multiple certificates for the same domain, your domain will be revalidated by our support staff with every order. While we do our best to keep certificate issuance time to a minimum, there is always some delay. This human element in the process helps to prevent phishing, and other kinds of fraud.
In a Managed PKI system, domains only need to be submitted to DigiCert for approval one time, after which all approvals are taken care of by your chosen account administrator.
For our part, we will still go through the standard verification procedures before issuing any certificates to domains you own, but which are requested outside of the managed PKI account.
Certificate Pre-Payment
With a standard account, pre-payment can always be made either with credit card or purchase order for any amount. You can pay for one 1-year certificate or deposit forty thousand dollars.
A PKI account is different from a standard account in that pre-payment is required. All certificate requests that are approved by your account administrator will be automatically deducted from the current account balance. If there is no account balance, your request will not be able to be approved.
Easy to Manage PKI Account Auditing
Admins are given easy to use functions to help them with account auditing, including an account audit log that tracks and records every action taken by every user inside your account, an easy to use purchase order manager for tracking account deposits and certificate expenditures, and customizable email reminders to help keep track of important account maintenance functions.
Unit and Subunit Management
Once you have set up your account, you will be able to create multiple units inside your account to match your account structure, to simplify internal auditing, account management, or billing procedures.
