AppViewX is a certificate lifecycle management platform that helps organizations automate the issuance, renewal, and compliance of digital certificates across enterprise environments.

Is Keyfactor a replacement for AppViewX?

Keyfactor is often chosen as an alternative to AppViewX by organizations that need deeper cryptographic visibility, enterprise PKI ownership, and support for complex hybrid or device-driven environments.

Does Keyfactor support public and private CAs?

Yes. Keyfactor is CA-agnostic and supports both public CAs and private PKI, allowing organizations to manage all certificates from a single platform.

How does Keyfactor handle cryptographic discovery?

Keyfactor continuously discovers certificates, keys, and cryptographic assets across networks, cloud environments, devices, and applications — reducing blind spots and risk.

Is Keyfactor suitable for large enterprises?

Yes. Keyfactor is designed for global enterprises managing large-scale certificate estates, complex compliance requirements, and evolving cryptographic standards.

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Q: How does Keyfactor help with future cryptographic change?

Keyfactor is built around cryptographic agility, helping organizations prepare for shorter certificate lifecycles, algorithm changes, and post-quantum cryptography transitions.

Enterprise PKI & Certificate Management Compared

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What We Stand For

Why Choose Keyfactor

Keyfactor helps enterprise teams establish and maintain digital trust across every machine identity. From private PKI to certificate lifecycle automation and cryptographic discovery, the platform is built to secure cloud, on-prem, DevOps, and connected devices at scale

Complete Cryptographic Visibility

Keyfactor continuously discovers and inventories certificates, keys, and cryptographic assets across the enterprise, helping teams to eliminate blind spots, reduce risk, and enforce consistent governance.

Built for What Comes Next

Keyfactor supports long-term cryptographic agility, including preparation for post-quantum cryptography, ever-shortening certificate lifecycles, and evolving compliance requirements.

Proven at Global Scale

Keyfactor is trusted by large global enterprises managing millions to billions of certificates, across regulated industries and complex hybrid environments.

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Core Platform Capabilities at a Glance

This comparison shows how Keyfactor and AppViewX differ across core certificate management capabilities, including automation, visibility, and scalability.

PKI Expertise

An end-to-end platform in-house with integrated PKI and certificate automation

Can support PKI requirements via custom CAs, provisioning from external CAs and 3rd party software

SaaS / Cloud

Built in the cloud, for the cloud. Offering SaaS-delivered PKI since 2014

Offers PKIaaS alongside CLM

Architecture

Deployable on-prem, in the cloud, as-a-service, hybrid and container

As-a-service, on-prem and private cloud options

Trust & Compliance

ISO 27001, 14001:2015, and 9001; SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3, CMMC, EU-US DPF, VPAT

ISO 27001, PCI DSS, SOC 2

Flexibility

Highly flexible with integrations into existing solutions and workflows

“Low-code” tools lack flexibility and extensibility that’s needed in modern IT environments

Pricing

Predictable and straightforward pricing tiers

Additional charges for dedicated SaaS instance, custom workflows, and per-certificate instances

Performance

Proven in global enterprise environments managing millions to billions of certificates under high transaction loads.

Works well in small-scaled environments but struggles at scale

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Keyfactor

Keyfactor is purpose-built for enterprise PKI and cryptographic lifecycle management, supporting certificates, keys, and cryptographic assets across public and private CAs, cloud platforms, DevOps pipelines, devices, and on-prem environments. This enables centralized control, consistent governance, and automation beyond basic TLS use cases.

Enterprise-grade onboarding and support backed by deep PKI expertise and a global customer base across regulated industries.

AppViewX

Provides support and services for certificate automation initiatives, with depth of PKI specialization varying by engagement.

Industry leaders ensure digital trust in a post quantum world

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Millions of certificates issued across services and workloads

Dozens of engineering hours saved through automation

Our previous PKI solution required manual management of certificates. Every single piece was human-driven …With few checks and balances, we had very little control around who was requesting, issuing, and renewing, which was a huge blind spot

Joseph Schoenith Senior Security Engineer, ServiceNow

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10x reduction in software signing costs

80% decrease in key ceremony costs

Before we engaged with Keyfactor, we had a purpose-built solution for firmware and a SaaS solution for software. They really didn’t know each other, they weren’t scalable, and they were expensive to operate and maintain.

Fred Cohn Digital Risk Leader, IoT Practice, Schneider Electric

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50% reduction in self-signed certificates identified and eliminated

350,000+ active certificates managed enterprise-wide

As we developed certificate lifecycle management systems internally, we found out that it was much more efficient to do it in the cloud. When it was time to switch to cloud based PKI, we went with Keyfactor because of the ease of transition over to cloud hosted products.

Kevin Ha Lead Encryption Engineer

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1,000+ corporate devices secured

100% managed PKI infrastructure

We were struggling with automation. Renewing certificates across less connected or secure networks was especially difficult – and the risk of outages was always looming.

Robert Hughes CISO, RSA Security

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Enterprise PKI & Certificate Management Compared

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Powering Leading Enterprises Across the Globe

What We Stand For

Why Choose Keyfactor

Complete Cryptographic Visibility

Built for What Comes Next

Proven at Global Scale

Feature Comparison

Core Platform Capabilities at a Glance

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Industry leaders ensure digital trust in a post quantum world

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