Google Certificate Authority Service

Overview

QCecuring integrates with Google Certificate Authority Service (CAS) to enable organizations to use Google Cloud’s managed private CA infrastructure while maintaining centralized certificate governance. This bridges cloud-native PKI with enterprise certificate lifecycle management.

Key capabilities

• Issuance of certificates through Google CAS subordinate CAs managed within QCecuring workflows.
• Centralized policy enforcement for certificate templates, key usage, and validity periods.
• Inventory synchronization of all certificates issued by Google CAS across projects.
• Automated renewal and revocation workflows leveraging Google CAS APIs.
• Unified reporting across Google CAS and other connected certificate authorities.

Typical use cases

• Organizations adopting Google Cloud and needing private certificates for internal services.
• Security teams building a multi-cloud PKI strategy with centralized governance.
• DevOps teams requiring automated certificate issuance for GKE workloads and internal APIs.

High-level integration flow

1. Configure a Google Cloud service account with CAS permissions and register it in QCecuring.
2. Map Google CAS CA pools and certificate templates to QCecuring issuance policies.
3. Teams request certificates through QCecuring, which orchestrates issuance via Google CAS APIs.
4. Issued certificates are tracked in QCecuring’s inventory with full lifecycle metadata.
5. Renewal, revocation, and compliance reporting are managed centrally across all connected CAs.

CBOM Discovery

QCecuring discovers all certificates issued through Google CAS, capturing algorithm types, key sizes, and CA hierarchy for your cryptographic bill of materials.