Zero Trust with Certificate Management in the Enterprise

By Code Story • Issue #103 • View online

In the past, many security challenges came alongside distributed systems. So much so, that a tool needed to be built in order to manage your internal workload certs.

And Smallstep built just the thing.

Bonus: Mike Malone, Smallstep

Mike’s career has tracked along side the development of the cloud. He witnessed the security problems alongside distributed systems, and felt the pains of having to manage sensitive information. He and his team saw an opportunity here, and set out to fix the problem.

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Smallstep Certificate Manager is an opinionated, extensible platform for DevSecOps public key infrastructure (PKI). With it, you can easily manage private TLS/SSL certificates for all your internal workloads, developers. Smallstep supports the ACME protocol, kubernetes workloads, single sign-on, one-time tokens, Cloud VM instance APIs, and other methods for automating certificates. Certificate Manager is available as a managed, linked, or on-premise solution.

Endpoint Cataloging

Providing teams with the ability to view what matters, the endpoint, not the certificate. Endpoint cataloging also provides a way to build and promote good security practices.

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Exporting to Monitoring Systems

Providing the balance for operators to use Certificate Manager with pre-existing monitoring dashboard such as SIEM, Splunk, Prometheus, Sumo Logic, and more while giving your entire company the auditability it needs for every endpoint

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Solid, Expert Support

Gain access to certificate management experts through detailed documentation, helpful FAQs, support tickets with our customer engineering team, and live assistance.

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Modern and Lightweight Toolkit

Easy to bring into any environment and run seamlessly. Unlike many legacy PKI solutions, Smallstep Certificate Manager was truly built for DevOps organizations.

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Learn how to automate certificates (x.509 & SSH) for all your workloads, devices, and developers at smallstep.com.

Smallstep Announces General Availability of Smallstep Certificate Manager | Business Wire

Smallstep Labs, Inc., the automated certificate management platform for DevOps, today announced the general availability (GA) of Smallstep Certificate

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About Smallstep Labs

Smallstep turns security best practices into an open-source toolkit that empowers any developer or operator to secure their infrastructure properly. The company believes that when security is easy for all developers, everyone wins.

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