Certynx
Certynx is software for discovering, governing, automating, and remediating machine identities, including certificates.
What Certynx is
Certynx is software for discovering, governing, automating, and remediating machine identities, including certificates. It builds a continuously updated certificate inventory from networks, cloud environments, Kubernetes, and Certificate Transparency logs. The platform can issue, validate, and deploy certificates before expiration, while enforcing rules for key strength, validity limits, and approved certificate authorities. Actions are recorded in a tamper-evident, hash-chained audit log. Its API connects public and private CAs such as Let’s Encrypt, DigiCert, EJBCA, Vault, and AD CS. Certynx monitors Certificate Transparency logs for unexpected certificates in customer namespaces and inventories cryptographic algorithms to identify post-quantum migration requirements. Deployment choices include managed cloud, private cloud in a VPC or data center, and air-gapped installation. HSM-backed issuance keeps keys inside the HSM, with Certynx receiving only a handle. Pricing is on request.
Good
- Discovers certificates across networks, cloud, Kubernetes, and CT logs
- Automates certificate issuance, validation, and deployment
- Works with public and private certificate authorities
- Offers managed, private-cloud, and air-gapped deployments
- Supports post-quantum migration planning
Watch out
- Paid product with pricing available only on request
- Advanced certificate-management scope may exceed smaller teams’ needs
Who it suits
It suits security and PKI, platform and DevOps, and compliance and risk teams managing certificates and machine identities. It is also relevant to organizations needing private-cloud or air-gapped deployment.
Verdict
Certynx combines certificate inventory, policy controls, renewal automation, CA orchestration, and audit records in one platform. Its deployment and key-handling options fit organizations with strict infrastructure or security requirements.
The facts
Each one read from Certynx's own pages, with the date it was checked.
Where it runs
- Air-gapped deployment
- The air-gapped option is described as self-contained with no cloud reachback, with event transport, workers, and storage inside the enclave.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Air-gapped installation
- The air-gapped deployment runs without cloud reachback and offers signed images with an SBOM and offline-reproducible installation.checked 4 Oct 2026
What it does
- Automated renewal
- It can issue, validate, and deploy certificates automatically before they expire.checked 11 Oct 2026
- CA orchestration
- Certynx provides one API across public and private certificate authorities, including Let’s Encrypt, DigiCert, EJBCA, Vault, and AD CS.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Certificate discovery
- It discovers certificates across networks, cloud, Kubernetes, and Certificate Transparency logs to build a live inventory.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Certificate inventory
- It continuously discovers certificates across networks, cloud, Kubernetes, and Certificate Transparency logs to build a live inventory.checked 11 Oct 2026
- CT monitoring
- It monitors Certificate Transparency logs for unexpected certificates issued for a customer’s namespaces.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Data handling
- Certynx says Customer Data remains under the customer’s ownership or control and is not used to create advertising profiles about customer users.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- Deployment options are fully managed cloud, private cloud in a VPC or data center, and air-gapped installation.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Deployment options
- Certynx describes fully managed cloud, private cloud within a customer VPC or data center, and air-gapped deployment options.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The site lists AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, HashiCorp, DigiCert, Sectigo, Let’s Encrypt, Keyfactor, Entrust, Cloudflare, F5 BIG-IP, ServiceNow, PagerDuty, Slack, and PKCS#11.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The site describes the product for security and PKI, platform and DevOps, and compliance and risk teams.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Key handling
- For HSM-backed issuance, keys are generated and used inside the HSM, and Certynx says it sees only a handle, never the key.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Key protection
- For HSM-backed issuance, keys are generated and used inside the HSM, and Certynx says it sees only a handle, never the key.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Policy and audit
- It enforces key strength, validity limits, and approved certificate authorities at issuance, with actions recorded in a tamper-evident, hash-chained audit log.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Post-quantum cryptography
- It inventories cryptographic algorithms, identifies migration requirements, and supports orchestrating a transition to post-quantum cryptography.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Post-quantum readiness
- It inventories cryptographic algorithms, identifies migration requirements, and supports orchestration toward post-quantum cryptography.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Certynx helps organizations discover, govern, automate, and remediate machine identities.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security safeguards
- Its privacy policy says safeguards may include encryption in transit, encryption at rest where appropriate, role-based access controls, multi-factor authentication, logging, and vulnerability management.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Setup
- Certynx says connecting a read-only source can build a live inventory of certificates, expirations, weak algorithms, and blind spots within about an hour.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Support
- The contact page says the team responds directly, typically within one business day, and provides [email protected] for vulnerability reports.checked 11 Oct 2026
The company
- Company and headquarters
- The privacy policy identifies the company as Certynx, Inc. and lists its address as 6000 Poplar Avenue, Suite 250, Memphis, Tennessee 38119, United States.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Intended teams
- The site identifies security and PKI, platform and DevOps, and compliance and risk teams as audiences for the platform.checked 11 Oct 2026
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