Venafi Control Plane for Machine Identities

By Palo Alto Networks

The platform that defined enterprise machine identity management, discovering TLS and machine certificates across enterprise, cloud, and Kubernetes environments and automating their issuance and renewal through ACME, EST, and direct CA integrations, backed by cloud-hosted private PKI and expiry monitoring that flags an outage risk before a certificate lapses. Venafi was acquired by CyberArk from Thoma Bravo in October 2024, and now sits inside Palo Alto Networks' Idira identity portfolio following its acquisition of CyberArk.

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Verified July 11, 2026Source: 1

Product type: Software
Deployment: SaaSHybridAgent
Organization size: Enterprise
Pricing tier: $$$

Capability checklist

CLM

How Venafi Control Plane for Machine Identities measures up against the full Certificate Lifecycle Management taxonomy.

Certificate discovery & inventory — supported: Finds every certificate across on-prem, cloud, and Kubernetes environments — including unknown, expired, and shadow certificates nobody was tracking.
Automated issuance & renewal — supported: Issues and renews certificates automatically through ACME and direct CA integrations, so nothing depends on someone remembering to do it by hand.
Expiry monitoring & alerting — supported: Watches expiration dates across the whole estate and alerts owners well before a certificate lapses and causes an outage.
Private CA & internal PKI — supported: Runs internal certificate authorities and PKI to issue the private certificates that secure machine-to-machine and internal service traffic.
Deployment integrations — not supported: Pushes issued certificates directly into load balancers, Kubernetes, MDM, and web servers instead of leaving admins to install them by hand.
Crypto-agility & rotation — supported: Inventories the algorithms and keys in use and rotates them at scale, including preparing for the migration to post-quantum cryptography.