Key concepts
Select the links for more details about each DigiCert® Trust Lifecycle Manager concept or feature.
Term  | Description  | 
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DigiCert helper software that you install on your server systems to discover and automate certificate deployments on them.  | |
An organizational unit that you can use to segment the digital trust assets for your business to help track and manage them.  | |
Processes used to facilitate and automate the management of digital certificates throughout their entire lifecycle including enrollment, issuance, installation, and renewal plus revocation and reissuance if needed.  | |
The general configuration for a type of certificate that you can issue through Trust Lifecycle Manager, including the allowed enrollment/authentication methods, issuing CA and cryptographic settings, certificate fields and extensions, and related options.  | |
A foundational record used as the starting point for creating certificate profiles in Trust Lifecycle Manager. Also known as a "base template".  | |
Any DigiCert software used in conjunction with Trust Lifecycle Manager to help access and manage your digital trust assets.  | |
An integration with an external system or service used to discover and add assets, resources, and functionalities to your Trust Lifecycle Manager work environment.  | |
Type of connector used to link to an external DNS service for purposes of automating domain control validation checks during certificate lifecycle events.  | |
A request to issue a new TLS/SSL certificate.  | |
The centralized repository of all your TLS/SSL certificates and related digital trust assets in Trust Lifecycle Manager, which functions as a "single pane of glass" to help you monitor and manage them all.  | |
Type of discovery scan used to find existing digital trust assets throughout your network and calculate security ratings for them.  | |
A usage license for a particular type of certificate or digital trust asset in Trust Lifecycle Manager.  | |
Web-based portal that allows end users to search, download, or manage their own certificates.  | |
DigiCert helper software that you install on your network to enable different integration types and discover and automate certificate deployments on network appliances and cloud services.  | |
Type of discovery scan used to find existing digital trust assets throughout a host system's OS or filesystem and calculate security ratings for them.  | |
A set of permissions that can be assigned to a user so they can perform their assigned job functions in Trust Lifecycle Manager.  |