CERTANIA

THE PROBLEM

Certificate expiries cause outages and silent trust failures — and most teams find out when something breaks. The renewal that slipped through the cracks takes down a customer-facing service at 2 a.m., and the post-mortem always says the same thing: “we didn't know it was expiring.”

WHAT IT DOES

Certania pulls every certificate expiring within the next 12 months, maps each one to the assets that carry it, and lays the whole picture out on two visual heat maps — so renewal work is planned by month, not discovered by outage. Expiring certs become gated Cert failure tags your team can route and track.

KEY CAPABILITIES

• 12-month expiry inventory — every certificate expiring in the next year, each mapped to the assets that carry it, so a renewal is never a surprise and an expiry never becomes an outage post-mortem.
• Dual heat maps — issuer × asset and month × asset views turn the renewal backlog into a calendar you can read in ten seconds and plan a quarter around.
• Gated “Cert failure:<date>” tagging — each expiring cert becomes a dated, routable work item with an owner and a deadline, proposed and human-approved before anything is written.
• IoT/app device cache — devices revealed in certificate metadata are captured and shared with the pack, giving the IoT hunt a head start from data you already collect.

HOW IT WORKS

Certania runs against the local navi.db built from your Tenable data: the certs table for expiry, issuer, and subject data, joined with vulns for asset mapping. All writes are proposed, human-approved, and logged.

WHY IT'S DIFFERENT

• Visual heat maps instead of a list — a renewal calendar you can read in ten seconds, grouped by issuer and by month.
• Doubles as a pack data source — the same cert inventory powers Heimdall's quantum-risk analysis and Cerberus's IoT discovery.
• Dated, gated tags — “Cert failure:<date>” turns an expiry into an assigned task, approved by a human before anything is written.

PROOF POINTS

• In a reference environment of 268 assets, Certania's cert inventory fed Heimdall's finding that ~100% of certificates were quantum-vulnerable — including certs valid to 2070 and 2114 that no manual review had flagged.

Illustrative results from a demo lab — not a guarantee. Certificate visibility depends on scan coverage; blind or uncredentialed hosts are called out, not hidden.

WORKS BETTER WITH

Certania feeds Heimdall — its cert inventory is the foundation of post-quantum risk classification — and Cerberus, which uses the cert-derived device cache to find unmanaged IoT at the edge.

WHO IT'S FOR

PKI owners who need a renewal calendar; ops and SRE teams tired of expiry-driven incidents; vulnerability management teams closing the trust gap.

CALL TO ACTION

Ask Certania what expires next quarter — before the outage asks for you.