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Gain Visibility and Control Over Your SSH and SSL Environments

This document discusses the importance of managing SSH keys and SSL certificates for layered security. It states that unmanaged keys and certificates can impair security defenses by allowing hackers to exploit them and establish backdoors. It recommends gaining complete visibility, centralizing management, enforcing policies, and controlling access to reinforce trust. The document then describes how Key Manager Plus can help organizations discover, consolidate, deploy, renew, track, and manage SSH keys and SSL certificates across their entire lifecycle.

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Gain Visibility and Control Over Your SSH and SSL Environments

This document discusses the importance of managing SSH keys and SSL certificates for layered security. It states that unmanaged keys and certificates can impair security defenses by allowing hackers to exploit them and establish backdoors. It recommends gaining complete visibility, centralizing management, enforcing policies, and controlling access to reinforce trust. The document then describes how Key Manager Plus can help organizations discover, consolidate, deploy, renew, track, and manage SSH keys and SSL certificates across their entire lifecycle.

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Gain visibility and control over


your SSH and SSL environments
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How unmanaged keys and
certificates impair your
layered security defenses

Over the years technology has been constantly growing and


evolving—as have cyberthreats and security breaches. Enterprises
are meticulously working with various solutions and strategies to
strengthen their security infrastructure. But, there’s no silver bullet when
it comes to security.  A  highly-recommended and  widely-adopted
technique among enterprises today is following a layered approach
to information security. This technique combines multiple security
strategies that offset one another’s capabilities to prevent malicious
intrusions, ensuring tighter security.

SSH keys and SSL certificates are at the heart of this comprehensive
layered security framework. These digital identities serve as the
foundation of trust, over which all the other security strategies unfold
and operate. 

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As a result, encryption keys
have also become the prime
target for cybercriminals, who
exploit them to create
loopholes in your layered
security infrastructure.
Once hackers break into your
organization’s SSH and SSL
environment, they constantly
work to expand their access,
steal identities of higher
privileges, and establish
permanent backdoors. 

Failing to protect your keys and certificates completely ends up


impairing your layered security defenses that blindly rely on the
trust provided by keys and certificates.

Here’s what you have to do to reinforce


trust in your SSH keys and SSL certificates:

Gain complete visibility over your SSH and SSL environments.


Centralize all key and certificate management operations.
Enforce policies for creating keys and certificates. 
Create fined-grained access control regulations and log all
user activity.

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Key Manager Plus helps you effectively take
control over your SSH and SSL environments

The average organization houses over 23,000 keys and certificates. Without


an automated way to streamline key and certificate life cycle management,
it’s almost impossible to achieve the required level of visibility and control
over your SSH and SSL environments. Key Manager Plus, our web-based key
and certificate management solution, helps you discover, consolidate,
deploy, renew, track, and manage the entire life cycle of SSH keys and SSL
certificates. It helps you take total control over your encryption keys to
preempt breaches and compliance issues.

SSH Key Life cycle Management

Discover and consolidate


Launch
SSH connection

KMP

Disaster recovery

Deploy keys to end servers

SSH key rotation

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SSL Certificate Life cycle Management

CSR Generation
SSL vulnerability scan Discover and consolidate
CSR

SSL certificate issue


KMP

Certificate request

Expiry notification Direct certificate acquisition

Let’s Encrypt / MS Trusted third party


Certificate Authority certificate authorities

Deploy certificates to end servers

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Highlights of Key Manager Plus

SSH key management  SSL certificate management

Key Manager Plus automatically Managing an SSL environment can be


discovers SSH keys present in your daunting if your organization uses a large
network and consolidates them in its number of SSL certificates from various
secure, centralized repository. You can vendors with different expiration dates. Key
centrally launch remote SSH Manager Plus discovers and consolidates
sessions, perform scheduled key all SSL certificates within your network,
rotations, create and deploy new keys, tracks their usage, centralizes certificate
delete unwanted keys, and requests and deployment, scans and
obtain instant, comprehensive remediates configuration vulnerabilities,
reports on all key management  and provides prompt alerts well ahead of
activity. certificate expiration. 

Discover Discover and


Automatically discover all
consolidate
SSH resources within your Discover all SSL certificates
network and add users and within your network regardless
their respective private keys. of vendor, encryption algorithm,
etc., and consolidate them in a
Consolidate, create, and secure, centralized repository.
deploy
Consolidate all discovered keys Centralized deployment
in Key Manager Plus’ secure,
Centralize deployment of newly
centralized repository. Centrally
acquired or renewed certificates
create new SSH key pairs and
to their respective end-servers.
deploy them to target servers.

Key-user mapping
Expiration alerts
Get a holistic, graphical
Receive periodic, customized
representation of key-user
alerts on certificate expiration 
relationships across your
well in advance.
organization. 

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Launch SSH sessions CSR CSR generation and
certificate request
Launch direct SSH sessions
workflow
with target systems from one
location and capture the Generate CSRs instantly and

sessions for your records. request and obtain certificates


from trusted third-party
certificate authorities with a
Configure key
hassle-free certificate request
management policies
workflow.
Enforce strict policies for key
creation. Remove all existing Let’s Encrypt integration
keys for a fresh start or create
Leverage our integration with 
and append new keys.
the certificate authority Let’s
Encrypt to completely automate 
Active Directory 
end-to-end management of the
integration
certificate life cycle, including 
Leverage our integration with certificate acquisition, deployment,
Active Directory to directly tracking, and renewal.
import users and  user groups
into Key Manager Plus. Manage certificates from
Active Directory and the
Disaster recovery MS certificate store

Schedule automated backups Discover, import, and manage


of the entire database for certificates mapped to user
disaster recovery. accounts in Active Directory
and certificates present
in the MS certificate store.
Audits and reports
Completely automate their life
Generate instant, comprehensive
cycle management through an
reports on various key and
integration with your Microsoft
certificate management
Certificate Authority. 
operations with tamper-proof
audit records of all user activity
SSL vulnerability scan 
and provisions.
Scan SSL certificates and
end-servers after deployment
for configuration vulnerabilities
such as Heartbleed, POODLE,
certificate revocations, and weak
cipher suites, and remediate them
instantly.

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“
ManageEngine Key Manager Plus is an efficient and surprisingly
user-friendly tool that can potentially help network administrators
anticipate and block security breaches and bypass annoying compliance
processes by providing all the necessary tools for monitoring and
controlling SSH keys and SSL certificates.

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“
We were quite impressed by this product that simplifies even complex
processes of key management, where most organizations fail, leaving
themselves vulnerable to cyber attacks.

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“
...serves a one-stop solution for managing all digital identities.

Users are treated with total visibility into the SSH and SSL environments.

Administrators gain absolute control of the keys preventing instances


and the likelihood of breaches and ensure adherence to
compliance policies.

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“
A web-based tool that can help to consolidate, control, manage, monitor
and audit the entire life cycle of SSH keys and SSL certificates is
ManageEngine Key Manager Plus.

www.techtarget.com

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“
ManageEngine’s Key Manager Plus
enables us to stay on top of SSL
certificates for all of our websites. With Key
Manager Plus, we’re able to monitor which
certificates are nearing expiration and roll out
new certificates in a timely manner.

Ken Odibe
Senior cloud infrastructure consultant,
Sapphire systems.

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