Identity Lifecycle Management (ILM)
Identity Lifecycle Management (ILM) unifies fragmented cryptographic assets across cloud, applications, devices, workloads, and AI into one control plane. It extends traditional CLM beyond certificate renewal and outage prevention to deliver enterprise-wide cryptographic lifecycle governance.
Key Capabilities:
ILM Control Plane & Dash
A single control plane for discovering, governing, automating, and securing certificates, keys, secrets, signatures, and enterprise cryptographic assets.
Digital Certificates & CLM
Automate certificate discovery, issuance, renewal, revocation, and policy enforcement while reducing outages, risk, and operational overhead.
OT PKI – Trust Infrastructure
Provide the trust foundation for certificate issuance, enrollment, validation, revocation, and machine identities across enterprise, cloud, and operational environments.
Cryptographic Keys
Manage cryptographic keys across HSMs, KMS platforms, vaults, and PKI environments with centralized lifecycle governance and visibility.
Digital Signatures & Signing
Track product lineage, supplier relationships, SBOMs, manufacturing processes, and cybersecurity evidence across the device lifecycle.
Secrets Management
Enable authenticated communications, trusted data exchange, and cryptographic authorization across vehicles, infrastructure, devices, operators, and connected ecosystems.
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- Delivers centralized oversight for key strength and algorithm conformance aligned with NIST and ENISA guidance.
- Automates key rotation and retirement to mitigate risk under NIS2 and ISO 27001 frameworks.
- Enables cryptographic agility by adapting keys, algorithms, and policies across systems as standards evolve.
- Ensures posture visibility across HSM, KMS, and softwarebased cryptography.
- Enables compliance with NIS2, ETSI standards, and organizational Crypto Policy Controls.
- Provides cryptographic inventory and certificate transparency for CBOM (Cryptographic Bill of Materials) creation.
- Integrates with GRC and posture assessment tools for continuous trust assurance
- Supports automated enrollment, renewal, and revocation with full auditability.
- Conforms with eIDAS2, ETSI EN 319 421, and CSC (Cloud Signature Consortium) standards.
- Supports qualified trust service providers (QTSPs) and enterprise signing under unified policy.
- Provides HSM-backed key custody, timestamping, and verifiable signature chains for audit.
- Strengthens supply-chain integrity through signing assurance and provenance tracking.
- Issue and manage trusted machine identities for devices, users, applications and services at enterprise scale.
- Automate certificate and key lifecycle operations across hybrid cloud, manufacturing and connected environments.
- Enforce cryptographic trust through policy-driven issuance, validation, revocation and CA governance.
- Modernize enterprise PKI with cloud-native, API-first infrastructure built for Zero Trust and post-quantum readiness.
- Centralizes secure storage and lifecycle management for passwords, application secrets, tokens, and machine credentials across enterprise, cloud, and DevOps environments.
- Enforces policy-driven access control with least-privilege authentication and separation of duties for users, applications, and services.
- Automates secure distribution, rotation, and revocation of secrets without exposing credentials or disrupting operations.
- Provides continuous monitoring, audit logging, and visibility to support compliance, incident response, and operational assurance.
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Featured Industries
Flex applies to any industry that depends on embedded, IoT, or connected devices and infrastructure. Wherever devices must operate safely and securely, Flex delivers runtime trust and resilience. Selected industries where Flex is in high demand include:
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