It only takes one expired certificate to bring everything to a halt. When a certificate expired at a smart meter company, it halted energy tracking for over 15 million homes. In another case, robotic arms at an automotive plant froze mid-production—all because of a single expired certificate. These aren’t isolated incidents—they’re symptoms of a much bigger issue.
As enterprises scale their use of automation, machine identities are multiplying at an unprecedented rate. But few have a system to manage them. Without a scalable system, trust quickly becomes a ticking time bomb. That’s where AppViewX AVX ONE CLM steps in—delivering the visibility, automation, and control you need to secure your machine identity landscape.
The Rise of Machine and Non-Human Identities (NHIs)
Machine and non-human identities are increasing exponentially, far outpacing the growth of human identities. According to the 2024 ESG Survey, organizations, on average, have 20X more non-human identities than human identities. And the growth isn’t slowing down, 52% of organizations predict an additional 20% increase in NHIs they manage in 2025.
These non-human identities include a wide range of device and workload identities:
- SSL/TLS certificates
- SSH keys and certificates
- Cloud services
- Microservices and applications
- APIs
- Service accounts
- Smart IoT devices
- CI/CD bots, AI models, and Kubernetes clusters
- Network devices
As the machine-to-machine ecosystem grows, so does the challenge of managing trust at scale. If you can’t see them, rotate them, or revoke them—you’re exposed.
What’s Broken: Legacy PKI and Certificate Lifecycle Management Can’t Keep Up
Traditional PKI and Certificate Lifecycle Management CLM solutions were built for a different era—one where certificates were issued to humans, lived for years, and were managed through manual approvals and periodic audits.
But machine and non-human identities don’t play by those rules. They:
- Spin up/down in seconds
- Operate at machine speed
- Require continuous authentication and encryption
- Can scale into millions across hybrid and multi-cloud environments
Legacy PKI and CLM systems, still reliant on manual processes, weren’t designed for this pace or scale. They do not provide the visibility, automation, and real-time control needed to manage today’s sprawling machine and non-human identity landscape. As a result, organizations face increasing risk—from expired certificates that cause outages, to blind spots that open the door for security breaches and compliance failures.
AppViewX AVX ONE CLM: Built for the Autonomous Enterprise
AppViewX AVX ONE CLM offers a modern, scalable, and secure certificate lifecycle management solution purpose-built for today’s machine-driven, Zero Trust environments. It delivers complete visibility, end-to-end automation, and continuous policy control and governance of digital certificates and keys—across machines, applications, workloads, and cloud services. Designed with crypto-agility in mind, AVX ONE CLM addresses the unique challenges of managing non-human identities (NHIs):
- Complete Visibility: Discovers all public and private certificates across your hybrid multi-cloud environments. Provides a centralized inventory with deep visibility into certificates and their metadata, including ownership, associated endpoints, and applications—enabling real-time detection of expirations, shadow certificates, misconfigurations, and crypto anomalies .
- Machine-Speed Automation: Automates certificate issuance, renewal, provisioning and revocation across cloud-native, edge, DevOps, and IoT environments. Provides out-of-the-box and custom automation workflows and auto-enrollment protocol support to tailor automation to unique business needs.
- Policy-Driven Governance: Helps enforce enterprise-wide best practices around cryptographic standards, key length, and expiry policies with zero manual touchpoints to minimize security risks and ensure compliance with industry and regulatory standards. Enables granular RBAC to enable conditional access and ensure secure certificate provisioning.
- DevOps and IoT Native: Integrates seamlessly with multiple Certificate Authorities, cloud services, DevOps toolchains, ITSM, SIEM, and MDMs to simplify certificate enrollment and automate certificate lifecycle management for high-volume DevOps and IoT environments.
- Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Ready: Built to support the new NIST-standardized quantum-safe algorithms to help you prepare for PQC adoption and future-proof your machine identity trust.
Certificate Lifecycle Management with Visibility, Control and Insights – All in One Place
Why AppViewX AVX ONE CLM Matters
By integrating deeply into both machine-native systems and enterprise IT, AppViewX AVX ONE CLM empowers your organization to:
- Prevent outages from expired or misconfigured machine certificates
- Eliminate blind spots to minimize vulnerabilities and security risks
- Meet compliance requirements for standards like PCI-DSS, HIPAA, NERC CIP, NIST, and more
- Accelerate Zero Trust maturity through automated, identity-based access control
- Practice crypto-agility to swiftly adapt to sudden cryptographic changes and industry shifts like 47-day certificate lifespans, PQC adoption, and browser distrust issues
Call to Action: Machine Identity Management Is Now A Must Have
The number of machine and non-human identities will continue to rise—and fast. Without proper management, trust breaks down, compliance fails, and innovation grinds to a halt. AppViewX AVX ONE CLM delivers the visibility, automation, and control needed to manage machine identities effectively and build the scalable trust foundation your autonomous enterprise demands.
Manage every certificate. Secure every workload. Trust every machine—with AppViewX AVX ONE CLM.
To learn more, request a demo of AppViewX AVX ONE CLM today.