What Is Cloud Certificate Manager?

What Is SCM?

SCM is a platform to centrally manage your Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates. Working with trusted Certificate Authorities (CAs) around the world, SCM enables one-stop SSL certificate lifecycle management and helps you improve trust and secure data transmission for your websites.

• What Is an SSL Certificate?

  An SSL certificate is an SSL-compliant digital certificate issued by a trusted CA.

  After an SSL certificate is deployed on a server, HTTPS is enabled on the server. The server uses HTTPS to establish encrypted links to the client, ensuring data transmission security.

• Huawei Cloud SCM and HTTPS

  You can purchase an SSL certificate on Huawei Cloud SCM and submit an application to the corresponding CA. After the CA approves the application, it issues the SSL certificate you request. Then, you can download the SSL certificate and deploy it on your web server or directly use it for other Huawei Cloud products. After this, data transfer between your customers and your web server or cloud service is encrypted over HTTPS.

• SSL certificates can help you:
  • Authenticate websites and ensure that data is sent to the correct clients and servers.
  • Set up encrypted connections between clients and servers, preventing data from being stolen or tampered with during transmission.

What Is PCA?

Private Certificate Authority (PCA) is a private certificate and CA management platform. You can use CCM to set up a complete CA hierarchy and use it to issue and manage private certificates for your organization. It is used to authenticate application identities and encrypt and decrypt data within your organization.

Certificates issued by a private CA are trusted only within your organization, but not the Internet.