Identity & Access Management
Keyfactor Command
Discovers and automates the lifecycle of every certificate and key across any CA and cloud.
Keyfactor Command Overview
What it does
Keyfactor Command is a certificate lifecycle automation (CLA) platform that gives enterprises a single control plane for machine identities: TLS certificates, keys, and the trust stores that hold them. Its defining design choice is certificate authority agnosticism, synchronizing in real time with Microsoft ADCS, EJBCA, and public CAs including DigiCert, Entrust, and Sectigo, so certificates issued outside any one PKI still land in one inventory. The problem it targets is the expiry-driven outage.
How it works
Discovery runs three ways: real-time synchronization against connected CA databases, network scanning for TLS endpoints, and agent-based or agentless inspection of key and trust stores, covering hybrid and post-quantum certificates. The Keyfactor Universal Orchestrator, a .NET service running on Windows, Linux, or in a container, executes those scans and then handles renewal, provisioning, and installation on endpoints such as IIS, F5, Citrix NetScaler, and cloud key vaults. Enrollment is self-service through a portal or REST API with native ACME and SCEP support, and certificates are grouped into collections and tagged with custom metadata for ownership and reporting.
Credentials and traction
Keyfactor holds SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3, and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certifications, and its Keyfactor for Government certificate lifecycle automation service, delivered through the Command console, attained FedRAMP Moderate authorization in May 2026. ABI Research ranked Keyfactor first among the eleven enterprise PKI vendors assessed in its 2025 competitive ranking, ahead of Entrust and DigiCert. Customers include ServiceNow, Siemens, Schneider Electric, M&T Bank, and OVHcloud, across financial services, manufacturing, telecom, and government.
Key Capabilities
mapped to solution categoriesIssues attested, environment-bound identities to workloads (APIs, applications, containers, services, AI agents) using SPIFFE or cloud-managed workload identities, verifying each workload at runtime before a credential is issued and federating trust across clusters, clouds, and partner domains, so shared static credentials and the secret-zero bootstrap problem disappear.
Issues short-lived, on-demand credentials to workloads at runtime instead of relying on long-lived static service-account secrets, so credentials expire automatically and reduce the standing attack surface.
Tracks ownership and provides continuous observability for every machine identity - who owns it, what it accesses, how its credentials and privileges are used - across secrets, keys, certificates, and cloud identities.
Manages cloud-native machine identities (AWS IAM roles, GCP service accounts, Azure managed identities, Kubernetes service accounts) alongside traditional PKI certificates.
Automates certificate enrollment, renewal, and revocation via ACME, SCEP, or EST protocols, preventing outages from certificate expiry and eliminating manual renewal processes.
Treats AI agents as first-class machine identities: unique identity per agent, short-lived purpose-bound credentials, fine-grained dynamic authorization, and linkage to a human owner or supervisor.
Continuously discovers and inventories machine identities and the workloads that use them across cloud and on-premises environments: service accounts, API keys, OAuth applications, cloud provider roles, Kubernetes service accounts, and AI agents, as well as TLS, SSH, and code-signing certificates and keys, so unmanaged and unknown identities are brought under management.
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Info last updated on September 7, 2026
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