Axiad Conductor

The credential nobody renewed is the outage nobody saw coming.

Axiad Conductor runs the full lifecycle of the credentials your workforce signs in with and the certificates your machines depend on. Phishing-resistant MFA, PKI-as-a-Service, and certificate lifecycle management run in one FedRamp Authorized platform.

The challenge

Two lifecycles, and they break the same way

On the human side, it's the hardware token that took three weeks to ship, the password reset that tied up the helpdesk, and the credential that should have been revoked when someone left. On the machine side, it's the certificate that expired at 2 a.m. and took a customer-facing service down with it.

Machines already outnumber your people by roughly 100 to 1, and most of them authenticate with certificates. The maximum lifespan of a public TLS certificate dropped to 200 days in March 2026. It drops to 100 days in 2027 and 47 days in 2029. Renewal that depends on someone remembering, or on a script nobody owns, stops working long before that last deadline arrives.

100 to 1

machine identities to human ones

47 days

maximum public TLS certificate lifespan by March 2029

1.2M+

cryptographic elements discovered and mapped to owners at a top 10 US financial institution

For your workers, how we help

Phishing-resistant credentials, without the rollout that takes a year

Conductor issues, renews, recovers, and revokes the credentials your people use to sign in, from FIDO2 security keys to smart cards to certificate-based authentication. Users handle the common requests themselves. Your helpdesk gets its time back.

Upgrade to phishing-resistant MFA

Conductor supports FIDO2/WebAuthn and PKI certificates from one platform. Register devices, issue credentials, and manage authentication for Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Ping Identity, and ForgeRock without running a separate system for each.

Manage hardware authenticators at scale

Deploy hardware tokens up to 10 times faster and track every one in one place. A US defense contractor rolled out 30,000 YubiKeys in two months.

Let users fix it themselves

Self-service handles setup, renewal, and the lost-token scenario, so a user doesn't have to open a ticket to get back to work. A US railroad cut authentication-related service desk calls by 35%.

Verify the person before you issue the credential

Axiad Confirm, built into Conductor workflows, checks a government-issued ID and a live selfie before a credential is issued or reissued, so a convincing voice on a helpdesk call isn't enough to get one.

Learn about Axiad Confirm

The credential journey:

  • Issuance - Verify identities and set up strong credentials
without friction
  • Renewal - Automate credential refresh before trust expires
  • Recovery - Reestablish trust before restoring access
  • Revocation - Remove stale access in real time
For your machine, how we help

You cannot rotate, or migrate, what you cannot see

Most teams don't have a complete inventory of the certificates they depend on, and the ones that fall off the list are the ones that take services down. Conductor gives you two ways to fix that: run your PKI as a managed service, and manage every certificate across your environment, whichever authority issued it.

PKI-as-a-Service

Running your own PKI takes specialized people, HSMs, and a lot of on-call hours. Axiad runs it for you as a cloud service: certificate authorities, HSMs, CRL and OCSP, and the full issue, renew, and revoke lifecycle, with FIPS 140-2 validated cryptography. Our savings calculator shows what your current PKI actually costs you, so you can make the case with numbers.

Calculate your savings

Axiad CLM

Axiad CLM (Certificate Lifecycle Management) finds every certificate in your environment, whichever certificate authority issued it, including the forgotten and unmanaged ones. It reaches servers, devices, and appliances without an agent wherever it can, and uses a lightweight agent only where one is required. Then it takes renewal off your team's plate for good.

Four steps:

Discover everything

Every certificate from every authority in one inventory, including the ones nobody is tracking.

Assign ownership

Every certificate tied to the endpoint it secures and a named, accountable owner.

Automate rotation

Renewal at whatever cadence the rules require, with no manual scramble and no expired-certificate downtime.

Prove control

Audit-ready evidence of coverage and rotation when the auditor asks which certificates are compliant and who owns them.

Axiad CLM works with the certificate authorities you already run. It has no reason to steer you toward ours.

Book a discovery scan call

Post-quantum migration starts
with aninventory

NIST finalized its first post-quantum cryptography standards in 2024, and federal mandates now put migration on a clock. Every certificate you can't see is one you can't migrate. Conductor and Axiad CLM give you the inventory, the ownership, and the automated rotation that a quantum-safe migration depends on, and the same managed service carries the migration as the new standards are adopted.

Better together

Mesh decides what to fix first. Conductor and CLM fix it

Visibility tools hand you hundreds of findings. Axiad Mesh ranks identity risk across your people, machines, and AI agents, so your team knows which issues matter most and who owns them. Conductor and Axiad CLM are how those decisions get carried out. Conductor replaces weak credentials with phishing-resistant ones. Axiad CLM rotates and replaces the certificates Mesh flags, starting with the cryptography post-quantum will break first, ranked by what depends on it and how far a failure would spread.

A certificate-only tool can tell you a certificate is about to expire. It can't tell you which of the ten thousand to fix first.

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Integrations

Works with the tools you already have

Axiad Conductor integrates seamlessly with your existing tools.

IAM Systems
Hardware devices
Endpoints
PKI
Machine identities
PAM
IGA

IAM Systems

Integrate with one or multiple IdPs

Hardware Devices

Flexibility to deploy different types ofhardware authentication

Endpoints

Plug and play within your ecosystem

PKI

Connecting seamlessly to existing tools

Machine identities

Plug and play within your ecosystem

PAM

Connecting seamlessly to existing tools

IGA

Plug and play within your ecosystem

Testimonials

What our clients say

Trusted by top organizations across industries.

Head of Identity Security

Top 10 US Financial Institution

Axiad was the obvious choice for us to improve our MFA. We had numerous standards we needed to meet and wanted a trusted partner with expertise in all the credentials we would require.

Systems Engineer, Sr. Manager,
US defense contractor
Outcome
1.2M+

Cryptographic elements discovered and mapped to owners across the enterprise.

The Axiad solution is world-class, and the experts on the team were able to support us and understand what we wanted at every level. We rolled out a new MFA solution in 2 months to 30,000 YubiKey users.

Senior Director of Information Assurance, US Railroad
Outcome
30,000

Users secured with phishing-resistant credentials in just two months.

Axiad has driven down the number of our calls. This, in turn, saves labor hours on both our service desk and on the users.

Cybersecurity Director
Outcome
35%

Reduction in authentication-related service desk calls.

Resources

Real-world results with Axiad Conductor

Financial Institution
June 10, 2026
Financial institution

Credit Union Secures Machine Identities with Future-proof Axiad Conductor PKIaaS.

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Energy and Oil
June 10, 2026
Energy and oil

Global Leader Provides Innovative MFA Solution to 100,000+ Employees with Axiad Conductor

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Questions from security and PKI leaders

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Credentials and PKI (Conductor)

Which identity providers does Conductor work with?

Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Ping Identity, ForgeRock, and Active Directory. Conductor can work with one or several at the same time, so you don't have to consolidate identity providers before you roll out phishing-resistant MFA.

How long does a rollout take?

It depends on the number of users and the authenticators you choose, but it's measured in weeks, not years. A US defense contractor rolled out 30,000 YubiKeys in two months.

What happens when a user loses a security key?

The lost credential is revoked, and the user gets a replacement through self-service without waiting on a helpdesk ticket. If you use Axiad Confirm, the user verifies their identity with a government-issued ID and a live selfie before the new credential is issued, so a convincing phone call isn't enough to get one.

We run our own PKI on premises. Do we have to move everything at once?

No. Conductor integrates with the PKI you already run, so you can move to Axiad's PKI-as-a-Service in phases, one certificate authority or one use case at a time. Our savings calculator shows what your current PKI costs so you can decide what to move first.

Is Conductor FedRAMP authorized?

Yes. Axiad Conductor is FedRAMP Moderate Authorized and uses FIPS 140-2 validated cryptography, with HSM options including Thales Luna, AWS CloudHSM, and Utimaco. Axiad CLM is on a path to run inside that same authorized boundary. Talk to our federal team for current status.

Certificate lifecycle management
(Axiad CLM)

Does Axiad CLM work with the certificate authorities we already use?

Yes. Axiad CLM is CA-agnostic. It discovers and manages certificates from your internal CAs, public CAs, and Axiad's PKI-as-a-Service, and it doesn't require you to move issuance to Axiad.

Do we have to install agents everywhere?

No. Axiad CLM discovers certificates without an agent wherever it can, and uses a lightweight agent only where a system requires one.

Does the 47-day rule apply to our internal certificates?

The CA/Browser Forum schedule applies to publicly trusted TLS certificates. Private certificates aren't bound by it, but the same pressures apply: more machines, shorter lifespans, and auditors who want proof that every certificate is owned and current. Automating rotation now means the next policy change is a settings update.

We already use Venafi or AppViewX. Do we have to replace it?

No. Conductor already works with Venafi and AppViewX discovery. When you're ready to consolidate, Axiad CLM brings certificate lifecycle management into the same platform as your PKI and credentials, so you have one fewer contract and one fewer console.

Find out what expires next

Start with a certificate discovery scan across your environment, book a demo tosee Conductor manage the full lifecycle for your people and your machines.

FedRAMP Moderate Authorized (Conductor). Frost and Sullivan Customer Value Leader. Gartner Market Guide Recognized. ISO/IEC 27001. SOC 2 Type II.

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