Find certificates. Control your crypto inventory.

Cryptography can only be managed when it is fully visible. Cryptography is now business-critical. It secures digital identities, applications, clouds, and machines, forming a central foundation for stable, IT-driven business processes. At the same time, many organizations still lack a complete overview of their cryptographic assets.

Certificates, keys, and cryptographic algorithms have evolved over time—spread across teams, tools, and platforms, with manual processes and unclear ownership. As long as everything works, this gap often goes unnoticed. Only when certificates expire, systems fail, or audits expose weaknesses does the true scale of the risk become clear.

External pressure is intensifying the situation. Regulatory requirements demand demonstrable control, clear accountability, and reliable evidence. New threats, cloud dependencies, and preparation for post-quantum cryptography add further urgency. Cryptography must therefore be evaluated and managed deliberately—not reactively, but strategically.

A crypto inventory is the prerequisite. It creates transparency across the cryptographic estate, makes dependencies visible, and enables informed decisions—for stable operations, reliable compliance, and a future-ready crypto strategy.
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Only full transparency makes cryptography manageable. The information gained in the crypto inventory makes it possible to identify risks against business and regulatory requirements, assess them in a targeted way, and address them in a prioritized manner.

The granular mapping of cryptographic assets to contexts of use, systems, and accountable owners creates the foundation for evaluating dependencies in a differentiated way and preparing segmented operating and security models.

Building on this, cryptographic measures can be managed proactively: Renewals, migrations, and algorithm changes are planned and traceable. Cryptographic assets remain reportable and auditable at all times.

This turns pure visibility into operational control. Organizations can run their cryptography reliably, take regulatory responsibility with confidence, and continue evolving it strategically.

essendi cd was developed by essendi it AG (Switzerland) and is designed to make certificates visible and create transparency about their usage, status, and context. The tool complements certificate management with enterprise-wide visibility, classification, and decision support. For sustainable day-to-day operations, however, visibility alone is not enough.

To control and operate discovered certificates long-term, centralized certificate management is required. This is the next level: governance, administration, and automation across the entire lifecycle.

essendi cd is deliberately designed as an open solution. Captured certificate data can be exported and integrated into existing management and operational processes. essendi xc offers one integrated solution for this, but it is not a technical requirement. Integration with other systems—such as ticketing and SIEM systems—is also possible, and export to CBOM formats is supported.

This creates a flexible approach: targeted discovery with essendi cd and seamless downstream processing in existing certificate management environments.