In my recent column on certificate life-cycle management I named three companies in the business (RSA (link leads to a PDF), Microsoft and Venafi) and prodded other vendors to come forward and identify themselves.

Only one has done so, confirming my suspicion that this is a small market. That vendor is Trustwave, with its Certificate Lifecycle Manager, a fairly new product. It has discovery, analysis and management functions. Trustwave says it "automates the entire SSL [Secure Sockets Layer] process and monitors deployed SSL certificates. Since its inception, we have more than 2,500 POS devices monitored by CLM."