Managing Digital Certificates across the Enterprise

Digital certificate management considerations

This chapter provides an overview of topics for you to consider for managing your digital certificate lifecycle.

This chapter includes the following topics:

•2.1, “Goals” on page 20

•2.2, “Using internal or external certificate authorities” on page 20

•2.3, “Digital certificate lifecycle” on page 22

•2.4, “Digital certificate lifecycle management considerations” on page 24

•2.5, “Accountability” on page 25

•2.6, “Public Key Infrastructure” on page 25

•2.7, “Regulatory demands” on page 26

2.1 Goals