Trust Infrastructure
Build trust at the root, your own PKI, backed by SSL
Product Groups
Dedicated PKI
Your own Root CA and Issuing CA hierarchy operated on SSL.com infrastructure. Two options: Private Compliance PKI or Private Enterprise PKI
Managed PKI Certificates
Issue certificates from a multi-tenant platform: inheriting SSL.com’s audit evidence without the setup cost or operational overhead of a dedicated CA. Pricing starts at $12,500 per year.
Custom-Branded Issuing CA
An intermediate CA issued under SSL.com’s publicly trusted root, carrying your organization’s name in the CA subject field.
Some organizations need more than a certificate. They need a complete trust hierarchy, their own CA infrastructure, issued under audited controls, scaled for their workloads, and governed by their policies. SSL provides dedicated and shared PKI environments and sub-CA issuance for enterprises that require owned, auditable, and operationally rigorous trust infrastructure.
Who Trust Infrastructure is for
Trust Infrastructure products are for organizations that need to issue certificates themselves, not just consume them. This includes:
Enterprises
Enterprises running Zero Trust architectures: where every user, device, workload, and service needs a cryptographically verified identity. Trust Infrastructure provides the issuing CA and automated enrollment needed to deploy certificate-based identity at scale across heterogeneous environments.
Manufacturers
Manufacturers issuing device identity certificates on the factory floor: IoT consumer devices, industrial IoT sensors, automotive ECUs, medical devices. Trust Infrastructure supports manufacturing-line issuance via REST API with the volume, branding, and audit evidence these programs require.
Regulated industries
Regulated industries where compliance mandates (SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, PCI DSS, banking regulators, NERC CIP, energy sector) require independently audited PKI governance. Private Compliance PKI provides WebTrust audit coverage over your issued certificates: evidence auditors accept.
Technology partners and SaaS providers
Technology partners, platform providers, and SaaS companies who want to appear as their own CA to customers. Custom-Branded Issuing CA places your organization’s name on the certificate issuer chain while inheriting SSL.com’s globally trusted root.
Organizations planning quantum-safe
Organizations planning quantum-safe transitions who need a controlled environment to pilot hybrid post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) certificates. Dedicated PKI supports ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and SLH-DSA hybrid profiles for organizations preparing for NIST PQC standardization.
Choosing the right product
Why SSL for Trust Infrastructure
Frequently asked questions
Three different deployment models for different needs: Managed PKI, built on SSL.com's shared WebTrust-audited infrastructure with strict logical tenant isolation. Lowest cost and fastest deployment; inherits SSL.com's audit evidence without dedicated CA overhead. From $12,500/year. Right for most enterprises that need audit-ready private PKI at scale. Dedicated PKI, your own Root CA and Issuing CA hierarchy operated on SSL.com infrastructure. Full sovereignty over policy, naming, and revocation. Choose Private Compliance PKI for regulated industries that need WebTrust audit coverage, or Private Enterprise PKI for internal-only use without the audit program cost. Custom-Branded Issuing CA, an intermediate CA issued under SSL.com's publicly trusted root, carrying your organization name in the issuer field. Publicly trusted from day one with no root distribution problem. For SaaS platforms and technology partners who want their brand on customer-facing certificates.
Both are Dedicated PKI, your own Root CA and Issuing CA hierarchy on SSL.com infrastructure. The difference is WebTrust audit coverage. Private Compliance PKI includes independent WebTrust audit over your dedicated hierarchy, evidence that regulators, auditors, and ecosystem partners accept for SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, PCI DSS, NERC CIP, and industry-specific compliance programs. From $20,000/year plus setup. Private Enterprise PKI provides the same dedicated infrastructure without the audit program. The right choice when your PKI is used internally (internal mTLS, dev/staging environments, VPN, internal service mesh) and external audit evidence isn't required.
Yes. Hybrid post-quantum certificate profiles are available on higher tiers, ML-KEM (key encapsulation mechanism), ML-DSA (digital signature algorithm), and SLH-DSA (stateless hash-based signatures), the three algorithms standardized by NIST in FIPS 203, FIPS 204, and FIPS 205. This lets organizations pilot quantum-resistant certificate profiles in a controlled environment ahead of production mandates. Existing PKI hierarchies can be extended to issue hybrid certificates (classical + PQC) without rebuilding, the standard migration path recommended by NIST.
Trust Infrastructure uses the same SSL.com Web Services (SWS) REST API as your public-trust certificates. One integration covers TLS, code signing, S/MIME, client authentication, device identity, and private PKI. Beyond REST, standard enrollment protocols are supported out of the box: ACME v2 (RFC 8555) for automated TLS, SCEP for device enrollment, EST (RFC 7030) for constrained devices. Turnkey integrations with Active Directory / Entra ID, Microsoft Intune, Jamf Pro, Kubernetes cert-manager, HashiCorp Vault PKI backend, and SIEM/SOAR platforms. The unified API eliminates the parallel code paths and credential silos typical of split public/private PKI deployments.
Yes. Custom-Branded Issuing CA is an intermediate CA issued under SSL.com's globally trusted root. The root is pre-installed in every major browser and operating system trust store, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and major Linux distributions. This means certificates issued from your Custom-Branded CA are publicly trusted from day one with no root distribution problem to solve with customers or partners. Your organization's name appears as the certificate issuer; SSL.com's root provides the public trust anchor. Publicly trusted and branded simultaneously, no compromise required.
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