ILM: Enterprise Cyber Security Beyond The Certificate
Modern organizations rely on more than certificates. They rely on a growing set of digital identities – used by people, applications, services, devices, workloads, and AI systems.
- Identity Lifecycle Management (ILM) brings these elements together into one governed lifecycle.
- ILM builds on and expands traditional certificate management.
- Where CLM focused on avoiding outages and renewing certificates, ILM provides consistent, enterprise-wide control over certificates, keys, signatures, and secrets – and the policies that govern them.
identity trust that is created, maintained, and retired with
clarity and discipline across the entire enterprise.
Digital Certificates
Automate issuance, renewal, revocation, and policy enforcement for certificates across applications, cloud services, devices, and connected systems. Govern certificate lifecycles with centralized visibility, automation, and compliance controls. Reduce outages, simplify operations, and maintain consistent identity and trust practices across the enterprise.
Cryptographic Keys
Centralize how cryptographic keys are generated, protected, used, rotated, and retired across hardware and software environments. Enforce policy-driven key custody, lifecycle control, and cryptographic agility using HSMs and secure key services. Reduce manual risk while maintaining consistent protection across enterprise and embedded systems.
Digital Signatures
Provide secure, compliant signing for documents, software, firmware, and data across enterprise and operational environments. Support remote and server-side signing with strong identity assurance, policy enforcement, and full auditability. Ensure integrity, provenance, and compliance across software supply chains and digital workflows.
Secrets Management
Centralize storage, access, rotation, and auditing of secrets across applications, cloud services, and DevOps pipelines. Secure passwords, API keys, tokens, and machine credentials with policy-driven controls, automated distribution, and full visibility. Reduce credential sprawl, prevent outages, and enforce consistent security practices across the enterprise.
Products
- Enables compliance with NIS2, ETSI standards, and organizational Crypto Policy Controls.
- Provides cryptographic inventory and certificate transparency for CBOM (Cryptographic Bill of Materials) creation.
- Integrates with GRC and posture assessment tools for continuous trust assurance
- Supports automated enrollment, renewal, and revocation with full auditability.
- Delivers centralized oversight for key strength and algorithm conformance aligned with NIST and ENISA guidance.
- Automates key rotation and retirement to mitigate risk under NIS2 and ISO 27001 frameworks.
- Enables cryptographic agility by adapting keys, algorithms, and policies across systems as standards evolve.
- Ensures posture visibility across HSM, KMS, and softwarebased cryptography.
- Conforms with eIDAS2, ETSI EN 319 421, and CSC (Cloud Signature Consortium) standards.
- Supports qualified trust service providers (QTSPs) and enterprise signing under unified policy.
- Provides HSM-backed key custody, timestamping, and verifiable signature chains for audit.
- Strengthens supply-chain integrity through signing assurance and provenance tracking.
- Centralizes secure storage and lifecycle management for passwords, application secrets, tokens, and machine credentials across enterprise, cloud, and DevOps environments.
- Enforces policy-driven access control with least-privilege authentication and separation of duties for users, applications, and services.
- Automates secure distribution, rotation, and revocation of secrets without exposing credentials or disrupting operations.
- Provides continuous monitoring, audit logging, and visibility to support compliance, incident response, and operational assurance.
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Featured Industries
Flex applies to any industry that depends on embedded, IoT, or connected devices and infrastructure. Wherever devices must operate safely and securely, Flex delivers runtime trust and resilience. Selected industries where Flex is in high demand include:
Telecom, Cloud & AI
ISS secures telecom, cloud, and AI environments by enforcing trusted identities, protecting distributed workloads, and validating data and model integrity. Continuous lifecycle governance prevents credential drift, mitigates supply-chain risk, and ensures resilient, compliant operations across high-scale networks, cloud platforms, and autonomous AI-driven systems.
Financial Services
ISS protects financial institutions by securing identities, transactions, and distributed infrastructure with strong cryptographic integrity. Automated lifecycle governance eliminates credential failures, detects unauthorized changes, and verifies provenance - supporting resilient operations and regulatory compliance across payments, trading systems, ATMs, branch networks, and cloud-based financial services.
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