GlobalSign Atlas

Atlas is GlobalSign's digital identity platform, bringing certificate lifecycle management together with managed PKI, discovery and automation, from a vendor that is itself a certificate authority. That combination is worth understanding before comparing feature lists, because a management platform from a certificate authority and a management platform from an independent vendor solve slightly different problems: the former is tightly integrated with issuance, the latter is designed to manage certificates from anyone.

Atlas Discovery is the component to start with in any deployment. Certificate management projects fail at the inventory stage rather than the automation stage, because organisations consistently underestimate how many certificates exist across forgotten subdomains, internal services, test environments and appliances nobody owns. Automating renewals for the certificates you know about while remaining blind to the rest leaves the outage risk essentially unchanged.

ACME support through the Certificate Automation Manager is the mechanism that makes routine renewal genuinely hands-off, since ACME is the protocol that made automated certificate issuance standard practice on the public web and applying it to enterprise estates is the same idea at organisational scale. LifeCycleX by GMO and TLS Connect extend the automation range.

The surrounding portfolio is broad. PKI for IoT and the Edge Enroll IoT identity platform address device identity at manufacturing scale, PKI for DevSecOps addresses certificates inside build pipelines, and post-quantum computing readiness is published as its own area. Custom certificate authority options include a dedicated intermediate CA and trusted root, for organisations that need to control their own chain of trust rather than sit under a shared one.

Document signing is covered separately through digital signing services, qualified trust seals, Adobe Approved Trust List signatures, GMO Sign and Cygnature, with published legality guidance for digital signatures. Compliance support and a technology alliance programme with PKI-integrated vendors round out the offering. Pricing is not published.