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Certificate profiles

A certificate profile defines the configuration options for a specific type of certificate, including:

  • Seat type

  • Business unit

  • Issuing CA

  • Enrollment method

  • Certificate fields

  • Cryptographic settings

  • Lifecycle actions

Certificate profiles are based on certificate templates. To create a certificate profile, you select a certificate template as the starting point, and then customize it for your specific business needs.

When you issue a certificate from your DigiCert​​®​​ Trust Lifecycle Manager account, you select a certificate profile to use. The certificate gets issued with the options from that certificate profile and consumes the seat type for it.