WHAT IS A CLIENT CERTIFICATE?
WHAT IS A CLIENT CERTIFICATE?
Without two-factor authentication (2FA), email signing, and document signing, your organization is only as secure as your weakest password. Client certificates—also known as personal ID certificates—are used to concretely identify and validate individual users. That way you’re able to control what each user can and cannot access and encrypt and sign communications they send and receive.


Control access
Control access
Allow and restrict access to apps, websites, databases and devices.
Allow and restrict access to apps, websites, databases and devices.

Sign communications
Sign and encrypt emails to protect against phishing and tampering.

Enable 2FA
Guard against hacked passwords by adding another layer of authentication.
HOW IT WORKS

CLIENT CERTIFICATE OPTIONS
CLIENT CERTIFICATE OPTIONS
DigiCert offers four flexible options to meet your specific needs:

THE SIMPLEST, MOST MODERN WAY TO MANAGE CLIENT CERTIFICATES
DigiCert PKI Manager makes it easy to enable and manage certificates across your entire organization with just a few clicks:
- Purchase
- Issue
- Customize
- Automate
- Revoke & reissue
