CertKit for education
Campus-wide certificates for lean IT teams, from sign-on to the long tail of department apps. CertKit issues, renews, and deploys SSL/TLS certificates across campus infrastructure automatically, so nothing expires in the middle of a semester.
Customer spotlight: University of St. Thomas
The University of St. Thomas manages certificates across a whole campus of systems: single sign-on, email, library proxies, and the long tail of department applications. Renewals crossed team boundaries, and security set a high bar: private keys stay on university infrastructure, and vendors clear a HECVAT review. CertKit met both. The local keystore keeps key material on campus while the platform handles issuance, renewal, and deployment, and discovery through public CT logs gives the team a live inventory of every certificate on their domains.
From an operational perspective, CertKit is easy to deploy and manage. The ability to configure unique and specialized certificates is key to replacing our manual certificate processes.
Laura Thomas, Senior Central Systems Administrator, University of St. Thomas
Built for how campuses actually run
The systems students notice
Single sign-on, email, and the campus portal all sit behind certificates. When one expires, every student and professor finds out at once. CertKit renews and deploys them automatically, with deploy windows so changes land outside class hours.
The long tail of department apps
Every department runs something: library proxies, lab systems, a decade of small web apps. CertKit discovers every certificate issued for your domains from the public CT logs, so your inventory includes the ones nobody remembers deploying.
Keys stay on campus
When security policy says private keys never leave university infrastructure, the CertKit Keystore generates and holds key material on your own servers while the platform runs issuance, renewal, and deployment around it.
Procurement ready
Vendor review needs a HECVAT? Available on request. Purchasing needs an invoice on NET 30 terms? Standard. Pricing is published, so budgeting doesn't start with a sales call.
Certificates that outlast the semester
Every plan includes a free 90-day trial, long enough to watch your certificates renew on their own. No credit card required, and free engineering support to get set up.