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Understand what Private CA controls

DigiCert® Private CA issues and manages private trust certificates for your organization. It controls:

  • Certificate authority creation, activation, and revocation

  • CA key generation and signing operations through hardware security modules

  • Certificate profiles, policies, and issuance rules

  • Certificate issuance, renewal, and revocation

  • Certificate revocation status distribution through OCSP and CRL

  • Product audit logs for CA and certificate activity

Private CA does not manage user accounts, sign-in methods, or credentials. Those are managed in Account Manager. A Private CA role does not grant Account Manager administrative permissions, and an Account Manager role does not grant access to Private CA.