CipherNexus
PKI & certificate lifecycle automation

Certificates automated.
Outages avoided.
Trust delivered.

Hands-on DigiCert Trust Lifecycle Manager implementations and enterprise PKI delivery, from architecture and scripting to automation your team can run.

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● OTTAWA, CANADACANADA & US · REMOTE
CERTIFICATE PIPELINE● AUTOMATED
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Enterprise CA · renews with no tickets
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Discover

Find certificates and track expiry across the estate

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Issue

Policy-driven enrollment from your CA

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Deploy

Installed on the live endpoint by script or agent

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Renew

Repeats before expiry, automatically

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DIGICERT TRUST LIFECYCLE MANAGERCERTIFICATE AUTOMATIONENTERPRISE PKICLOUD & HYBRID INFRASTRUCTURE
01 / What I do

From trust architecture
to the live endpoint.

01 / PRIMARY SERVICE

Trust Lifecycle Manager implementation

Plan and deliver DigiCert TLM around your certificate estate: CA integrations, discovery, enrollment workflows and agent-based deployment, tested and handed over properly.

TLMAgents & sensorsPrivate CAPost-delivery scripts
02 / AUTOMATION

Custom automation & integrations

PowerShell, Bash and Python delivery scripts and API integrations for load balancers, gateways, identity platforms, application servers and cloud services, with least-privilege access design.

PowerShellBashREST APIsAzure
03 / PKI

PKI architecture & delivery

CA design, certificate templates, auto-enrollment and trust-chain planning, documented so your team can run it after handover. Backed by 15+ years of PKI delivery.

CA designAuto-enrollmentRunbooksHandover
02 / Implementation experience

Certificate automation.
Across platforms.

Platforms and integration patterns delivered, or built and validated in lab environments. Scope for your project depends on your environment and the supported integration path.

✓ DELIVERED

F5 BIG-IP

Client and server SSL profile automation through a post-delivery script.

LOAD BALANCING
✓ DELIVERED

Cisco Firepower & Expressway

Certificate deployment to network security and collaboration platforms via APIs.

NETWORK
✓ DELIVERED

Okta custom domains

Automated TLS certificate rotation for branded domains through the Okta API.

IDENTITY
✓ DELIVERED

MuleSoft CloudHub 2.0

Certificate deployment automation for Anypoint private spaces and applications.

INTEGRATION
✓ DELIVERED

Oracle WebLogic & Apache Tomcat

Keystore, alias and CA-chain handling for Windows and Linux application servers.

APPLICATION SERVERS
✓ DELIVERED

Azure Web Apps

Certificate upload and custom-domain SSL binding with least-privilege role design.

CLOUD
✓ DELIVERED

VMware Horizon & Omnissa UAG

PFX installation, friendly-name rotation and service restarts for VDI infrastructure.

VIRTUAL DESKTOPS
✓ DELIVERED

HAProxy & Radware Alteon

Open-source and commercial load balancer integrations, including REST-based flows.

LOAD BALANCING
✓ DELIVERED

Kubernetes cert-manager & Vault

ACME-based pipelines connecting cert-manager and HashiCorp Vault PKI to TLM.

CLOUD-NATIVE

Client names are intentionally omitted. References are available on request.

Abdul Aziz Farooq
Founder, CipherNexus
  • CISM, Certified Information Security Manager
  • CISA, Certified Information Systems Auditor
  • Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect
  • Microsoft Azure AI Engineer
  • PKI vendor certifications
03 / The person behind the work

Practical PKI,
delivered end to end.

I'm an Ottawa-based PKI consultant and the founder of CipherNexus, with more than fifteen years of experience leading and deploying turnkey PKI solutions for government and commercial organizations.

Today my work centres on client-facing certificate automation: scripting, pipelines, lab validation, documentation and cross-platform troubleshooting, so certificates renew on their own and expiry outages stop being a worry for your team.

04 / How we work

Clear scope.
Hands-on delivery.

01 / UNDERSTAND

Start with your environment

Review infrastructure, dependencies and constraints. Define the problem and agree a focused scope.

02 / IMPLEMENT

Build and validate

Configure integrations, test enrollment and deployment flows in a lab where possible, and troubleshoot with evidence.

03 / ENABLE

Hand over something useful

Document the configuration, operational checks and next steps so your team can support it with confidence.

05 / Your next project

Let's make trust
less complicated.

Planning a certificate automation rollout, a Trust Lifecycle Manager implementation or a PKI project? Tell me about your environment, your goal and what is getting in the way.

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Based in Ottawa · Remote engagements
Part-time and project-based work by arrangement.

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