PKI Spotlight® Recognized by Gartner for Defining PKI Posture Management

We’re excited to share that PKI Solutions was recognized by Gartner in its February 2024 report “Effectively Manage Your Organization’s Certificates” (ID G00804504) as a key vendor in the emerging category of PKI Posture Management. This acknowledgment affirms our leadership in building solutions that go beyond certificate lifecycle to provide deep, continuous insight into the true health and risk of PKI environments.

“Gartner’s recognition validates what we’ve seen firsthand—organizations need real-time PKI visibility, not just lifecycle automation,” said Mark B. Cooper, President of PKI Solutions. “PKI Spotlight is purpose-built to give security teams the operational assurance traditional CLM tools can’t.”

What Sets PKI Spotlight Apart

PKI Spotlight is the industry’s first platform dedicated to PKI Posture Management—addressing the critical gap between certificate issuance and infrastructure visibility. While most tools focus on managing certificates, PKI Spotlight monitors and assesses the underlying trust infrastructure:

• Certificate Authorities (CAs)
• Revocation configurations
• Template permissions
• CA hierarchy and trust chains
• Key usage violations
• Known vulnerabilities and misconfigurations

Organizations can no longer rely on spreadsheets, ad hoc audits, or incomplete toolsets to manage something as foundational as PKI. PKI Spotlight ensures teams can detect risk early, respond quickly, and maintain confidence across distributed, hybrid, and regulated environments.

Going Beyond CLM

Gartner’s report emphasizes the growing complexity of certificate management, including CA sprawl, shortened lifespans, and crypto-agility requirements. But it also highlights a new frontier:

“Third-party tools can be responsible for assessing CAs’ and hardware security modules’ (HSMs’) security posture, hygiene, and compliance with industry guidance and specific regulations. This functionality is currently emerging.”

That’s where PKI Spotlight leads—with purpose-built capabilities to assess PKI systems and HSMs in real time.

See What’s Been Missing

Whether you’re managing Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS), hybrid workloads, or a mix of legacy and modern trust architectures—PKI Spotlight shows you what others can’t.

This recognition by Gartner reinforces our mission to help organizations make PKI visible, governable, and resilient.