Take control of certificates across every environment
Compare Keyfactor and Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Trust Security (NGTS) approaches to enterprise certificate management. With Keyfactor, you can:
Automate certificate lifecycles across your environment
Apply consistent policy across CAs and infrastructure
Choose the deployment model that fits your requirements
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WhY KEYFACTOR
Simplify certificate management as your needs evolve
Bring PKI, lifecycle automation, and cryptographic visibility together with flexibility across CAs, infrastructure, and deployment models.
Control PKI and certificates together
Manage private PKI and automate certificates issued by supported public and private CAs.
See cryptographic risk clearly
Discover cryptographic assets and identify risk across code, cloud, endpoints, and infrastructure.
Deploy on your terms
Deploy self-hosted, in the cloud, as SaaS, or across hybrid and containerized environments.
See how Keyfactor and Palo Alto Networks NGTS approach PKI, certificate automation, architecture, and deployment.
Keyfactor Approach
NGTS Approach
Platform approach
Keyfactor Approach
A vendor-neutral Trust Control Plane for PKI, certificate lifecycle automation, and cryptographic discovery.
NGTS Approach
A network-native approach to certificate lifecycle management and private PKI within the Palo Alto Networks ecosystem.
Enterprise PKI
Keyfactor Approach
Flexible private PKI available as software or a fully managed service.
NGTS Approach
Cloud-delivered private PKI integrated with certificate lifecycle management.
Deployment flexibility
Keyfactor Approach
Supports SaaS, cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and highly controlled environments.
NGTS Approach
NGTS is cloud-delivered, with self-hosted certificate management also available through Palo Alto Networks.
Visibility
Keyfactor Approach
Extends visibility across certificates, keys, and broader cryptographic assets.
NGTS Approach
Provides certificate inventory and posture visibility across enterprise environments.
Automation
Keyfactor Approach
Automates certificate lifecycles across diverse CAs, applications, devices, and infrastructure.
NGTS Approach
Provides policy-driven certificate automation across supported enterprise environments.
Last updated Q1 2025 · Based on publicly available information
*Comparison based on publicly available information as of October 2026. Capabilities may vary by product and configuration.
Keyfactor vs. CyberArk
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 across all environments.
CyberArk
CyberArk’s Venafi portfolio delivers machine identity capabilities across certificate lifecycle management (Certificate Manager), managed PKI (Zero Touch PKI), code signing, and SSH machine identities. Organizations often use it as a policy and automation layer across multiple CAs.
Keyfactor
Keyfactor provides continuous discovery and inventory of certificates, keys, and cryptographic assets across networks, cloud, and infrastructure. This visibility enables teams to identify risk, eliminate blind spots, and enforce policy before outages or security incidents occur.
CyberArk
Certificate Manager automates discovery, monitoring, renewal, and compliance enforcement for TLS certificates. Visibility for broader machine identity types (SSH, code signing) is supported through additional products and modules, with coverage depending on which components are deployed.
Keyfactor
Keyfactor delivers deep, CA-agnostic automation across certificate issuance, renewal, rotation, revocation, and provisioning with strong support for CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native services, and infrastructure-as-code workflows. This eliminates manual tasks and supports short certificate lifecycles at scale.
CyberArk
CyberArk/Venafi supports automation for certificate issuance and renewal and integrates into Kubernetes environments via cert-manager and related tooling. Many organizations standardize on it for policy enforcement and governance, then extend automation through integrations aligned to their platforms and CAs.
Keyfactor
Keyfactor delivers deep, CA-agnostic automation across certificate issuance, renewal, rotation, revocation, and provisioning with strong support for CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native services, and infrastructure-as-code workflows. This eliminates manual tasks and supports short certificate lifecycles at scale.
CyberArk
CyberArk/Venafi supports automation for certificate issuance and renewal and integrates into Kubernetes environments via cert-manager and related tooling. Many organizations standardize on it for policy enforcement and governance, then extend automation through integrations aligned to their platforms and CAs.
Keyfactor
Keyfactor is trusted by large enterprises managing millions to billions of certificates across global, hybrid, and highly regulated environments. The platform is designed to scale reliably while maintaining performance, governance, and operational consistency.
CyberArk
CyberArk/Venafi is widely adopted in large enterprises and is positioned for high-scale certificate and machine identity environments. In practice, scaling strategy varies based on product selection (self-hosted vs SaaS), administrative design, and the number of integrated systems and CAs.
Keyfactor
Keyfactor is built for long-term cryptographic agility, helping organizations prepare for shorter certificate lifecycles, evolving standards, and post-quantum cryptography. Its flexible architecture supports algorithm changes without disruptive platform migrations.
CyberArk
CyberArk/Venafi has highlighted post-quantum readiness initiatives, including support for NIST-approved post-quantum algorithms in its machine identity control plane and tooling to help teams test migrations. Organizations should compare how each platform handles discovery, policy, and migration workflows at enterprise scale.
Keyfactor
Enterprise-grade onboarding and support backed by deep PKI expertise and a global customer base across regulated industries.
CyberArk
Provides enterprise support and services as part of CyberArk’s broader identity security portfolio.
Industry leaders ensure digital trust in a post quantum world
Keyfactor helped us deliver products at scale…By transitioning from our old SaaS solution to Keyfactor, we saw an order of magnitude drop in operating costs.
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.
There’s uncertainty about when quantum will break encryption algorithms, but we need to be prepared. We see Keyfactor as a partner in the journey to ensure that we are quantum-ready in our encryption practice.
Next-Generation Trust Security (NGTS) is Palo Alto Networks’ cloud-delivered platform for certificate lifecycle management, private PKI, and code signing. Palo Alto Networks introduced NGTS following its acquisition of CyberArk, which had previously acquired Venafi.
NGTS takes a network-native approach within the Palo Alto Networks ecosystem. Keyfactor provides vendor-neutral control across PKI, certificate lifecycles, cryptographic assets, and diverse enterprise environments.
Keyfactor provides vendor-neutral PKI and certificate lifecycle management across diverse CAs, applications, cloud services, networks, devices, and infrastructure. It also integrates with Palo Alto Networks Panorama and firewall products, helping organizations maintain consistent control as technologies and requirements change.
Keyfactor discovers certificates, keys, and algorithms to help organizations identify quantum-vulnerable cryptography and prioritize migration. Its PKI and lifecycle automation capabilities support testing, issuing, and replacing certificates as quantum-safe standards evolve.
Yes. The Keyfactor Command Test Drive provides 30 days of hands-on access to certificate lifecycle management capabilities without requiring deployment in your own environment.
Platform approach
Enterprise PKI
Deployment flexibility
Visibility
Automation
