AWS Certificate Manager

HSM Included with Solution

Includes a hardware security module (HSM) as part of offering at not added costs.

Dashboards and Reporting

Effective reporting features are crucial for gaining insights into your certificate landscape, managing risks, and demonstrating compliance.

Scalability

Provides a solution with the ability to handle large enterprise environments with thousands of certificates. It also provide an efficient database design

Integration & Support

Solution supports connecting PKI system and integrates with other security tools/platforms to share information, automate tasks, and enhance overall security.

Certificate Discovery

Product should identify and catalog all the digital certificates deployed across IT infrastructure and support both internal and public-facing infrastructure

High Availability and Disaster Recovery Support

Provides redundant infrastructure and disaster recovery plans to ensure continuous availability of PKI services even in case of hardware failure or cyberattack.

GEO Diversity

Solution should provide the ability to stand up local Points of Presence (PoP) for geo-diverse locations.

Certificate Lifecycle Management

CLM encompasses the entire process of requesting, storing, renewing, rekeying and retiring cryptographic keys.

Role-Based Access Control Support

Restrict or enable access to PKI functions and data based on user roles and permissions to ensure authorized individuals can perform specific actions.

Compliance

Complies with relevant industry standards and regulations, such as PCI DSS and HIPAA to ensure adherence to data security requirements.

Ease of Implementation

Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Vendor Support

The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Usability and Intuitiveness

End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of IT Administration

This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Data Integration

Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Breadth of Features

Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Business Value Created

Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Customization

Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Availability and Quality of Training

Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Quality of Features

Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.