AD CS Insights

What is AD CS?

Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) is a Microsoft Windows Server role that allows you to build a public key infrastructure (PKI) and provide public key cryptography, digital certificates, and signing capabilities to your organization. It is commonly used to issue certificates for various purposes, including user and computer authentication, secure email (S/MIME), secure web access (SSL/TLS), code signing, and document signing.

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What other technologies are related to AD CS?

AD CS Competitor Technologies

Microsoft Entra ID

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) provides cloud-based identity and access management, including certificate services, and is a direct competitor to on-premise AD CS.

mentioned alongside AD CS in 0% (163) of relevant job posts

AD CS Complementary Technologies

AD DS

AD DS (Active Directory Domain Services) provides the directory service that AD CS relies on for user and computer accounts, and for publishing certificates and CRLs. It is strongly complementary.

mentioned alongside AD CS in 11% (94) of relevant job posts

DNS

DNS (Domain Name System) is used by AD CS for name resolution and is a necessary component for AD CS to function properly.

mentioned alongside AD CS in 0% (163) of relevant job posts

Microsoft Active Directory

Microsoft Active Directory provides the directory service that AD CS relies on for user and computer accounts, and for publishing certificates and CRLs. It is strongly complementary.

mentioned alongside AD CS in 0% (198) of relevant job posts