Certificates issue, deliver, and renew themselves across every plant — while the certificate authority stays completely off the OT network. Faster commissioning, effortless review, and not one inbound path into the plant.
Every manual step in certificate management is a delay, an error, or an outage waiting to happen. Automating them does more than save time — it removes the human path that risk travels on.
Manual certificate management, no approval workflows, no audit trail — this is not PKI governance, it is PKI chaos.
Missed renewals, human error, and unplanned outages. Manual PKI processes are unreliable at any scale.
Certificates issued without governance checkpoints compromise your PKI trust hierarchy without anyone knowing.
OT environments have thousands of PLCs, RTUs, and field devices. Manual one-by-one provisioning simply does not scale.
Cannot reconstruct certificate history for forensic investigations. Non-compliance with IEC 62443 and ISO 27001.
Secure OT and industrial networks cannot use cloud-connected CA services. Conventional PKI breaks down entirely in air-gapped environments.
PKI treated as an isolated IT function rather than an integrated cybersecurity governance layer across the entire enterprise.
The Cognisec Trust Engine is a unified PKI automation and governance platform purpose-built for industrial and enterprise environments. It combines certificate lifecycle operations with workflow orchestration, role-based governance, and audit intelligence.
Request → Approval → Issuance → Renewal → Revocation — fully automated, fully governed. No manual steps, no missed renewals.
Two dedicated panels — CISO and Owner — with strict separation of duties. Requests arrive automatically; no cross-role access at any level.
No certificate is ever issued without traversing the defined approval workflow. Governance is mandatory, not optional.
Deploy digital identity at scale — thousands of PLCs, RTUs, HMIs, and field devices in a single bulk operation.
Structured offline CSR workflows for secure OT networks without external connectivity. Full governance maintained without internet.
A governed Trust Engine still can't reach a PLC on an air-gapped network with an unreliable link. The Trust & Compliance Orchestrator is a self-contained relay deployed at every site — it collects certificate requests locally and forwards them outbound only, so the CA is never reachable from OT, connected or not.
Zero inbound connections into the OT network — one firewall rule, in one direction.
Survives link outages of hours or days. The device and the CA never need to be online together.
No CA key, no signing authority. Compromise it fully and an attacker gains a queue, nothing more.
Requests arrive automatically from devices through the Orchestrator — so governance needs only two roles, not four.
The approval and oversight authority. Every asset, every user, and every certificate status flows through here.
The asset owner's own view. Register what you own, watch its certificates, catch problems before they become outages.
Every certificate follows the same governed path. No exceptions. No shortcuts.
Owner registers the device in inventory
Device sends its request via the Orchestrator
Algorithm, validity, key usage applied
Metadata checked against approved assets
Automated issuance via Intermediate CA
Certificate collected via the Orchestrator
Lifecycle tracking & auto-renewal
Instant revocation — OCSP within 5 min
If Step 4 finds no inventory match → issuance is refused → an alarm is raised in the CISO Panel → the request sits in an approval queue with a full audit trail. No certificate is ever issued to an unrecognised asset.
For OT/SCADA networks, Steps 2 and 6 go through the Trust & Compliance Orchestrator — a relay at the site that queues requests and forwards them only when the link is up. The CA is never reachable from the OT network, connected or not.
The Cognisec Trust Engine is aligned with the most demanding regulatory and security frameworks globally.
Certificate-based identity management and access control for industrial automation and control systems (IACS). Purpose-built for OT environments.
Component-level certificate requirements for individual IACS devices — the standard the platform's per-device issuance is built to satisfy.
Cryptographic key management and identity assurance aligned with NIST guidelines for federal and enterprise environments.
Information security management through access control, audit logging, and policy enforcement — all built into the platform core.
Certificate management for power system communications — key and certificate lifecycle for substation and grid protocols.
Identity-centric security model enabling certificate-based device and user trust verification across the entire network fabric.
From fully air-gapped on-premise to cloud-native — the Trust Engine deploys wherever your environment demands.
Customer-owned hardware. Internal Root CA. Full air-gap support. Complete data sovereignty.
Air-Gap ReadyCognisec provides and manages server hardware. Private Root CA. Managed PKI without owning infrastructure.
ManagedCognisec hardware with globally trusted Root CA. Certificates trusted worldwide — ideal for enterprise web PKI.
Globally TrustedDual-CA model — internal Root CA for OT plus commercial CA for public services. Maximum flexibility.
HybridFully cloud-hosted on AWS, Azure, or GCP with commercial Root CA. Zero on-premise hardware required.
Cloud NativeThe Cognisec Trust Engine's core orchestration methodology is protected under a submitted patent, covering the policy-driven, role-based PKI governance architecture for industrial and enterprise environments.
The Cognisec Trust Engine is available for enterprise deployment across all five deployment models.
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