See the unseen with
PKI Spotlight®
In cybersecurity, visibility is key. PKI Spotlight is a real-time monitoring software that enables unmatched visibility across enterprise public key infrastructures (PKIs). Gain unprecedented perspective into all PKI environments in one place to improve security, availability, recoverability, and stay ahead of vulnerabilities. PKI Spotlight is a critical part of your Post-Quantum Readiness.
Enterprise PKI Observability Platform
PKI Spotlight gives you continuous visibility into the health, security posture, and operational integrity of the trust infrastructure your business depends on.
Purpose-Built for PKI Posture Management
Real Time PKI Health
Gain centralized visibility into certificate authorities, revocation infrastructure, certificate templates, HSMs, and operational dependencies across your PKI environment. PKI Spotlight continuously monitors the systems and services that modern identity and authentication depend on, helping teams identify issues before they become outages.
- Unified visibility across PKI infrastructure
- Monitor critical dependencies continuously
- Identify issues before outages occur
- Reduce operational blind spots
Detect Vulnerabilities
& Misconfigurations
PKI Spotlight continuously detects misconfigurations, Expired CAs, weak settings, and known ADCS risk conditions, helping organizations maintain a secure and compliant PKI posture over time.
- Detect known ADCS vulnerabilities
- Identify insecure configuration changes
- Continuously assess PKI security posture
- Reduce risk from configuration drift
Prevent Outages
& Operational Failures
Monitor certificate authorities, CRLs, OCSP responders, certificate expirations, and HSM integrations to proactively identify operational issues before they impact authentication, applications, or business operations. PKI Spotlight helps teams move from reactive firefighting to proactive operational assurance.
- Monitor revocation infrastructure health
- Track critical certificate expirations
- Detect HSM and service failures
- Minimize unplanned authentication outages
Accelerate Troubleshooting
& Remediation
PKI troubleshooting often requires deep expertise and visibility across multiple systems. PKI Spotlight correlates operational, security, and configuration data into actionable findings with clear remediation guidance, helping administrators resolve issues faster and operate PKI with greater confidence.
- Correlate issues across PKI components
- Prioritize findings by operational impact
- Receive actionable remediation guidance
- Resolve incidents with greater confidence
See the unseen with
PKI Spotlight®
Secure Critical Infrastructure
& Operational Technology
PKI Spotlight helps energy organizations maintain visibility into the PKI infrastructure supporting operations, remote access, device identity, and critical trust services.
- Prevent certificate outages impacting operations
- Increase visibility across distributed PKI environments
- Improve PKI Health and observability
Strengthen Trust
& Operational Resilience
Financial institutions rely on PKI for secure transactions, authentication, encryption, and regulatory compliance. PKI Spotlight helps organizations proactively identify operational and security risks before they impact business-critical services.
- Maintain regulatory governance & compliance
- Reduce revocation and outage risk
- Visibility & control across the entire PKI ecosystem
Protect Clinical Systems
& PKI Digital Trust
Healthcare organizations depend on certificates and PKI to secure clinical systems, medical devices, authentication workflows, and sensitive patient data. PKI Spotlight improves operational visibility while reducing security and availability risk.
- Gain visibility into medical device certificates
- Improve reliability across clinical environments
- Maintain PKI posture with limited IT resources
Operate PKI at Enterprise Scale
Fortune 1000 organizations depend on PKI across identity, authentication, cloud services, endpoint security, networking, and application infrastructure. PKI Spotlight provides centralized visibility and operational assurance for large, complex enterprise environments.
- Manage large-scale CA visibility across a complex PKI Ecosystem
- Eliminate ownership gaps, and reduce complexity
- Maintain Visibility across global-scale PKI environments
Features Details
Internal PKI Monitoring
Security Risks Surfaced
Maintain visibility into service status monitoring and CA configurations within your PKI including advanced prefailure detection through Is-Alive to improve availability and reduce the risk of unexpected service disruptions.
Provider: ADCS
Operational Risks Surfaced
Detect operational risks for or CA, NDES, OCSP, CAWE, CEP/CES services as well as certificate template configurations in real-time before they become outages by highlighting configuration problems, service health concerns, and emerging threats that impact PKI reliability.
Provider: ADCS, EJBCA
PKI Certificate Status Monitoring
Simplify certificate management with a comprehensive inventory of PKI Certificates (CA , TLS, NDES Signing/Encryption, and OCSP), complete with validity tracking, proactive renewal alerts, and expiry thresholds – all through a user-friendly interface to ensure operational continuity and security.
Provider: ADCS
CRL Status Monitoring
Monitoring your entire inventory of PKI Certificate Revocation Lists complete with validity tracking, proactive renewal alerts, and a user-friendly interface to ensure operational continuity and help prevent validation failures or authentication issues.
Provider: ADCS
Validation Location Status Monitoring
Monitor status changes for CDP/AIA validation locations to ensure revocation and validation services remain reachable by clients and relying parties.
Provider: ADCS
Certificate Template Status Monitoring
Track ADCS certificate template configurations and health to quickly identify unauthorized changes, configuration drift, and enrollment issues.
Provider: ADCS
Topology
Visualize your PKI infrastructure to better understand relationships, dependencies, and configuration across Certificate Authorities and supporting services.
Provider: ADCS, EJBCA
Public CA Monitoring
Issued Certificate Status Monitoring
Track DigiCert Cert Central issued certificates within the same context as your internal PKI to improve visibility, monitoring, reduce renewal risk, and simplify certificate management.
Provider: Digicert
Domain Validation Status Monitoring
Monitor DigiCert CertCentral domain validation status to prevent validation expirations that could delay certificate issuance or renewal.
Provider: Digicert
Subscription Status Monitoring
Maintain visibility into DigiCert CertCentral subscription status to avoid unexpected service interruptions and ensure continued platform access.
Provider: Digicert
User Status Monitoring
Monitoring your entire inventory of PKI Certificate Revocation Lists complete with validity tracking, proactive renewal alerts, and a user-friendly interface to ensure operational continuity and help prevent validation failures or authentication issues.
Provider: ADCS
Organizations Status Monitoring
Track DigiCert organization status to ensure organizational records remain valid and ready for certificate operations.
Provider: Digicert
HSM Monitoring
HSM Availability
Continuously monitor Hardware Security Module status and configurations within your PKI to protect critical cryptographic operations, incliuding changes for both on-premise network and cloud HSMs.
Provider: Luna, nShield
Operational Risks Surfaced
Detect operational risks and provide specific best pratices on hardware failues before they become outages impacting PKI reliability.
Provider: Luna
Platform
Native Splunk Integration for Events and Risks
Integrate PKI monitoring data directly into Splunk to accelerate response to events, identify risks, and support enterprise security operations.
Generic Syslog API for Events and Risks
Forward PKI events to any non-Splunk SIEM or log management platform using a gneneric Syslog to centralize monitoring and strengthen operational visibility.
Email Subscriptions for Events and Risks
Get real-time updates on certificate status, events, and potential risks to ensure continued PKI Health.
Digest emails for Events and Risks
Reduce alert fatigue with scheduled summary reports that highlight the most important PKI events, risks, and trends.
SSO Support via SAML
Simplify user access and strengthen security with Single Sign-On (SSO integration with SAML, enhancing the user experience when access PKI Spotlight.
Provider: EntraID, PingID
Governance and Compliance
Security Risks Surfaced
Measure your PKI against the PKI Maturity Self Assessment from the PKI Consortium to identify improvement opportunities and prioritize modernization efforts.
Certificate Reporting
Leaf Certificate Status Monitoring
Monitor the expiration and validity status for certificates issued through your on-premise PKI, giving you a full inventory of active, issued certificates with the ability to assign users visbility to a subset of your PKI inventory.
Modern PKI Solutions for Enterprise Environments
PKI
Assessments
& Misconfigurations
Uncover operational weaknesses, security vulnerabilities, and configuration drift before they impact your business.
Advisory &
Implementation Services
Best-Practice PKI Consulting and Transformation
Design, modernize, and strengthen your PKI environment with guidance from experienced PKI architects and engineers.
PKI Training Courses
& Workshops
Build PKI Maturity Within Your Team
Develop the operational knowledge and technical expertise required to manage PKI with confidence.
FAQs
What is PKI Spotlight?
What does PKI Spotlight monitor?
PKI Spotlight monitors certification authorities, certificate revocation lists (CRLs), Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) responders, validation locations, certificate templates, certificate expirations, and hardware security module (HSM) availability. It also tracks DigiCert CertCentral issued certificates alongside your internal PKI and raises events and risks into Splunk, syslog, or email.
How does real-time PKI monitoring reduce certificate-related outages?
Real-time monitoring watches certification authorities, CRLs, OCSP responders, certificate expirations, and HSM integrations continuously, so an expiring CRL or a failing service is identified before it affects authentication, applications, or business operations. Teams move from reacting to an outage to preventing it, with findings prioritized by operational impact and paired with remediation guidance.
Which PKI platforms does PKI Spotlight support?
PKI Spotlight monitors Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS), EJBCA, and DigiCert CertCentral, alongside multi-vendor hardware security modules (HSMs). It runs inside your own environment, including air-gapped and isolated networks, with no dependency on cloud services.
Is PKI Spotlight a certificate lifecycle management (CLM) tool?
No. Certificate lifecycle management (CLM) tools automate issuing and renewing certificates. PKI Spotlight® monitors the infrastructure those certificates depend on: the certification authorities, revocation services, templates, and HSMs that CLM tools do not see. It works alongside an existing CLM platform rather than replacing it, with no rip-and-replace required.
How should I compare PKI monitoring tools?
Compare on four things: what the tool actually watches (certification authorities and revocation infrastructure, not just certificate expiry dates), where it runs (inside your network or only in the cloud), which platforms it covers (Microsoft AD CS, EJBCA, public CAs, HSMs), and how it alerts (SIEM, syslog, email). A tool that only tracks expirations misses most PKI outages.
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