Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) is the process of managing digital certificates from their creation to their expiration or revocation. Digital certificates are electronic credentials that verify the identity of individuals, devices, or organizations and enable secure, encrypted communication over networks. They are a fundamental part of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), ensuring trust and data integrity in digital interactions. CLM involves key stages such as requesting, issuing, installing, monitoring, renewing, and revoking certificates. This process helps prevent service disruptions, security breaches, and compliance failures. CLM is used by a wide range of users including IT administrators, security teams, DevOps engineers, and compliance officers who rely on it to maintain secure and reliable digital environments.
IT Security refers to products and services that protect digital systems and data from cyber threats and unauthorized access. This category includes markets that focus on network security, identity management, data protection, and cloud security, enabling organizations to reduce risk, ensure compliance, and operate securely in a digital world.
Gartner defines the indoor location service market as “the hardware, software and service components that provide indoor location coordinates and services.” Indoor location solutions use differing hardware components, data collection methodologies, location data elements, location engine algorithms and architectures to achieve the core functionality of the indoor location market. Solutions provide the location of a static/mobile asset or person, as defined by the needs of the specific vertical market.
Password management (PM) tools are products that provide users with the means to reset their own passwords after an account lockout or when they forget their passwords. PM tools can also synchronize passwords for users across multiple systems, allowing users to access multiple applications with the same password.
Gartner defines user authentication as the journey-time process that provides credence in a claim to an identity established for a person for access to digital assets. User authentication is delivered by some combination of (a) an authenticator, (b) signals evaluation and (c) an authentication decision point, which may be from different vendors.