Cryptography plays a critical role in securing data, protecting privacy, and maintaining trust across systems. From securing web traffic and APIs to software updates and IoT communications, digital certificates and keys underpin modern cybersecurity infrastructure.
Yet, many organizations are struggling to manage cryptographic assets efficiently. A complex digital landscape, fragmented tools, manual processes, and evolving threats, such as the threat of quantum computing to current cryptography, are making certificate lifecycle management (CLM) increasingly challenging and risky.
To thrive in this environment, enterprises need crypto-agility: the ability to quickly adapt to cryptographic changes with minimal disruption to operations or security.
At AppViewX, we’ve helped leading global enterprises move from reactive, disjointed certificate management to proactive, scalable, and resilient cryptographic operations, guided by our Path to Crypto-Agility, powered by AVX ONE CLM.
AppViewX AVX ONE CLM is a comprehensive certificate lifecycle management solution that helps you discover, inventory, manage, and govern all public and private trust certificates in your infrastructure—all in one place. With complete visibility, end-to-end automation, and robust policy control, AVX ONE CLM streamlines certificate operations across machines, applications, workloads, and cloud services, in turn, strengthening the digital security posture.
Here’s how you can achieve crypto-agility across four stages with AVX ONE CLM.
Stage 1: Visibility—Establishing the Foundation
Why It Matters:
You can’t protect what you can’t see.
The starting point of crypto-agility is complete visibility into all digital certificates and keys across your organization. A lack of visibility leads to blind spots, which can result in expired certificates, service outages, and compliance violations.
Common Challenges:
- Unknown or “shadow” certificates scattered across systems
- Outages caused by missed certificate renewals
- Lack of ownership and accountability for certificates
How AVX ONE CLM Helps:
- Automatically discovers all public and private trust certificates from multiple Certificate Authorities (CAs) across all endpoints
- Consolidates discovered certificates into a centralized certificate inventory enriched with valuable metadata, such as expiration date, key size, algorithm, and location
- Provides insights into anomalies and orphaned or unused certificates
Business Impact:
A holistic, always-updated view of your cryptographic estate—your single source of truth. With complete visibility, your teams can proactively manage certificate lifecycles, prevent outages, and eliminate unnecessary downtime.
Certificate Lifecycle Management with Visibility, Control and Insights – All in One Place
Stage 2: Advanced Automation at Scale—Empowering Developers and Operations Teams
Why It Matters:
Security shouldn’t be a bottleneck. With the right tools, it becomes an enabler.
As development cycles accelerate, especially with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines, the demand for digital certificates has skyrocketed. However, manual certificate processes simply can’t keep up. DevOps teams need rapid, secure methods for provisioning and deploying certificates without relying solely on central IT teams. Once issued, certificates must also be deployed, installed, and updated across a diverse range of systems. Automation is the key to both speed and security in this process.
Common Challenges:
- Long wait times for certificate issuance requests
- Human errors in provisioning, configuration, and renewals
- Lack of visibility or control for development and operations teams
- Complex hybrid environments with inconsistent tooling
How AVX ONE CLM Helps:
- Provides certificate self-service for developers and app teams to request, renew, and revoke certificates on demand
- Automates certificate approval workflows, reducing dependency on central IT
- Seamlessly integrates with DevOps toolchains like Jenkins, GitLab, Ansible, and Kubernetes
- Pushes certificates automatically to endpoints like load balancers, servers, containers, and IoT devices
- Enables zero-touch renewals and deployment (even binds the certificates to the correct application)
- Enables rollback and deployment validation to avoid misconfigurations and outages
Business Impact:
Faster innovation, fewer bottlenecks, and fewer incidents—all backed by secure, end-to-end certificate lifecycle automation. Whether you’re supporting agile development or maintaining hybrid infrastructure, AVX ONE CLM helps you move quickly without compromising security or compliance.
Stage 3: Compliance and Control—Laying Down Governance
Why It Matters:
Automation without governance leads to chaos.
Automating your certificates is only half the battle. The next step is to enforce policies that manage them securely and consistently. Without standardized policies, certificate issuance and usage become ad-hoc and error-prone. Regulatory frameworks, such as NIST, PCI DSS, and NIS2 also demand formal cryptography governance.
Common Challenges:
- Disparate CAs with inconsistent processes
- No centralized enforcement of cryptographic policies
- Gaps in proving compliance during audits
How AVX ONE CLM Helps:
- Define enterprise-wide policies for certificate issuance, key strength, validity periods, and approved algorithms
- Enforce governance consistently across teams, regions, and environments
- Continuously monitor for policy violations and trigger alerts for quick remediation before issues become incidents
Business Impact:
With automated policy enforcement, compliance becomes part of your everyday operations. Audits are simpler, trust is stronger, and security risks are reduced—all while preserving the speed and agility your business needs.
Stage 4: Crypto-Agility—Building a Future-Proof Enterprise
Why It Matters:
Crypto-agility is not just about speed—it’s about resilience
The cryptographic landscape is shifting fast. TLS certificate lifespans are shrinking drastically, widely used encryption algorithms like RSA and ECC are nearing deprecation, the urgency around post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration is intensifying, and compliance mandates are constantly evolving.
To stay secure and compliant through these changes, your organization must be ready to adapt without scrambling. That’s what crypto-agility enables you to do: pivot without panic.
Common Challenges:
- Legacy systems with hardcoded keys and outdated algorithms
- Fragmented CLM tools that slow down cryptographic transitions
- Lack of readiness for PQC migration
- Difficulty scaling cryptographic operations across large, hybrid environments
How AVX ONE CLM Helps:
- Centralizes visibility of all cryptographic assets—certificates, keys, algorithms—to help you plan effectively for upgrades and migrations
- Offers flexible, advanced automation with deep integrations to execute cryptographic changes at scale, seamlessly and accurately
- Enforces policy-driven governance to maintain consistency, compliance, and control throughout every transition
Business Impact:
In a world where cryptographic change is constant, crypto-agility is a necessity for resilience, compliance, and long-term security. Whether you’re facing a tough audit, dealing with expired certificates, or preparing for a quantum-secure future, you need a CLM strategy that’s built for change.
With AppViewX AVX ONE CLM, you get complete visibility, intelligent automation, and centralized control—everything you need to future-proof your cryptographic operations and reduce risk without slowing down your business.
Ready to begin your crypto-agility journey?