QCecuring - Enterprise Security Solutions

Certificate Lifecycle Management

Master the complete certificate lifecycle - discovery, monitoring, ACME automation, deployment, renewal pipelines, incident response, and managing certificates at enterprise scale. Hands-on labs using real Linux infrastructure.

2 Days (14 hours) Instructor-Led, Live Virtual Intermediate $1,100 per participant (minimum 3)

What You'll Learn

Day 1 - Discovery, Monitoring & ACME Automation

Morning

Real-world outage case studies
Certificate discovery methods (network scan, filesystem, CA query)
Building certificate inventory with risk classification
Certificate monitoring & expiry alerting (90/60/30/7 day thresholds)
Lab: Scan environment, discover all certificates

Afternoon

ACME protocol deep-dive (RFC 8555)
Challenge types: HTTP-01, DNS-01, TLS-ALPN-01
Lab: Obtain cert with certbot (HTTP-01)
Lab: Obtain wildcard cert with acme.sh (DNS-01)
Deploy to Nginx, Apache - reload & verify

Day 2 - Automation at Scale & Operational Excellence

Morning

End-to-end renewal + deployment pipeline
Multi-server deployment and rollback
Lab: Build complete automation pipeline
Enterprise CLM platform live demo
When to build (scripts) vs buy (platform)

Afternoon

47-day certificate readiness (8x more renewals/year)
Incident response for certificate outages
Lab: Detect, diagnose, remediate under time pressure
Multi-cloud certificate management (AWS ACM, Azure, GCP)
Architecture decisions and next steps

Lab Environment

Infrastructure

Dedicated cloud lab per participant

VMs / Resources

2x Linux instances (Ubuntu) with Nginx, Apache, internal CA, sample certs

Access

SSH

Post-Training

48 hours additional access

What's Included

2 days live instructor-led training
Dedicated cloud lab per participant
Step-by-step lab manuals (keep forever)
Automation scripts - Bash & Python (production-ready)
Certificate monitoring templates
Post-training email support (2 weeks)
Certificate of Completion

Who Should Attend

DevOps engineers, platform teams, security operations, systems administrators

Prerequisites

Basic PKI understanding (or completion of PKI Fundamentals), basic Linux command line, understanding of TLS/SSL, familiarity with web servers

Training Investment

Participants Per Person Total
3 $1,100 $3,300
5 $1,100 $5,500
8 $1,100 $8,800
10 $1,100 $11,000
15+ $1,000 $15,000

Bundle discount: Book with PKI Fundamentals (3 days) for $2,400/person total (save $300).

On-site delivery available at additional cost (travel + accommodation).

Ready to Enroll?

Contact us to schedule training for your team. We offer flexible scheduling and can customize the curriculum to your environment.

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