Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) are critical for securing authentication, encryption, and infrastructure integrity across modern enterprises. Together, they safeguard every identity, transaction, and system that keeps your business running.
But with certificate validity periods shrinking to 47 days, and quantum computing poised to disrupt cryptographic standards by 2029, manual certificate management and legacy PKI models can no longer keep pace.
The Gartner® Buyers' Guide for PKI and Certificate Lifecycle Management provides a prescriptive five-step process to help security and IT leaders modernize their programs with clarity and control. This isn’t a high-level strategy overview—it’s a hands-on framework for evaluating capabilities, prioritizing automation, and managing long-term cost and complexity.
We believe this Gartner report provides valuable guidance on how to:
- Define PKI and CLM objectives aligned to automation, scalability, and crypto agility
- Map use cases and trust boundaries to the right operating model
- Assess vendor trends and convergence across PKI, CLM, and identity security
- Develop detailed requirements and proof-of-concept criteria for effective vendor evaluation
- Optimize total cost of ownership through process automation and resource planning
Download the Gartner report to follow the full evaluation framework and build a modernization roadmap that reduces risk, streamlines operations, and prepares your organization for post-quantum agility.
Who We Believe Will Benefit From This Report:
- CISOs and CIOs – Defining enterprise-wide PKI and CLM modernization and automation initiatives
- CSOs and Risk Executives – Evaluating vendors and frameworks to strengthen cryptographic governance
- VPs of IT Security, Infrastructure, and Compliance – Leading technical and operational transformation projects
Gartner, "Buyers' Guide for PKI and Certificate Life Cycle Management," Sarah Almond, 29 May 2025
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