Patent attributes
A method and apparatus for automatically configuring and provisioning cryptographic certificates is described. A certificate management sensor receives instructions from a first computing device to analyze a second computing device to identify an application on the second computing device associated with cryptographic network traffic on the second computing device, generates an application fingerprint based on application characteristics of the application, transmits the application fingerprint and a certificate signing request (CSR) to a certificate management system (CMS), and receives second instructions from the CMS to automatically install a cryptographic certificate on the second computing device based on the application fingerprint and CSR.
