Sectigo launches gateway to automate certificate renewals

Sectigo has launched Sectigo Orchestration Gateway, now generally available as part of its certificate lifecycle management platform.

The launch comes as organisations face rising volumes of digital certificates and shorter SSL/TLS renewal cycles. IT teams can use the gateway to automate certificate discovery, issuance, renewal and deployment across servers, cloud systems and edge environments from a single installation.

The product targets a problem that is becoming more pressing as certificate lifespans shrink. Public SSL/TLS certificate lifespans are expected to fall to 47 days by 2029, forcing more frequent renewals and increasing the operational burden on security and infrastructure teams.

Many organisations still rely on manual processes or disconnected tools to manage those tasks. Sectigo cited research showing that 95% of organisations remain at least partly dependent on manual certificate workflows, even where some automation has already been introduced.

Automation Layer

Sectigo Orchestration Gateway sits within Sectigo Certificate Manager and is designed to replace separate connectors, individual agents and manual steps with a single automation layer. The system applies central policy while carrying out certificate tasks across different parts of an organisation's technology estate.

This approach is intended to reduce the need for teams to maintain multiple virtual machines, high-availability configurations and integration-specific maintenance cycles. Instead, the gateway provides a single route for certificate operations across a range of endpoint types.

Supported environments include IIS, Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat, F5, NGINX, Citrix, Cloudflare WAF and Imperva WAF, among others. The gateway also integrates with CyberArk, Delinea, HashiCorp and BeyondTrust so credentials can be retrieved when needed rather than stored locally or shared more broadly across systems.

Growing Pressure

Certificate management has become more visible as organisations add more machine identities across applications, cloud services and network infrastructure. The expanding use of AI-related workloads is also contributing to certificate growth, adding more encrypted connections and authenticated systems that need oversight.

Unmanaged certificates can create operational and security risks, including service outages and missed renewals. The gateway is intended to give teams better visibility into where certificates sit in their networks and to help keep policy enforcement consistent across complex environments.

The product also forms part of a wider industry push towards what suppliers describe as crypto agility, or the ability to adapt certificate and cryptographic processes as standards evolve. That has taken on added relevance as companies prepare for future changes in algorithms and security requirements linked to post-quantum cryptography.

Henry Lam, Field CTO at Sectigo, set out the rationale for the launch.

"Shorter certificate lifespans and sprawling, multi-vendor infrastructure have made old approaches to certificate automation harder to scale," said Lam. "With Sectigo Orchestration Gateway, we're bringing full automation to certificate operations, giving customers one gateway that coordinates certificate workflows across every endpoint on their network. It's a direct expression of Simplicity at Scale: less infrastructure to run, more certificates under control, faster time to value, and a platform built to keep pace with what's next."

Market Context

The certificate management market has been reshaped by a steady increase in the number of devices, applications and services that rely on digital trust mechanisms. What was once a relatively contained administrative task has become more difficult in large organisations with mixed on-premise, cloud and edge infrastructure.

In that environment, products that centralise policy while automating routine certificate tasks are becoming more common. Vendors are trying to address a long-standing issue for IT operations teams: certificate processes often span different tools and business units, leaving gaps in inventory and creating pressure around renewals.

Sectigo's new gateway is aimed at addressing that fragmentation by providing a single workflow across a broad set of systems. The model is intended to simplify certificate operations as volumes increase and environments become harder to manage.

Sectigo serves more than 700,000 customers and says 65% of the Fortune 500 use its services. The company has operated in the certificate authority market for more than 20 years.