DigiCert Private Intermediate CA

Strengthen internal trust with a private intermediate CA built for controlled certificate issuance. Positioned between your private root and your issuing workflows, it supports a cleaner PKI hierarchy that separates long-term trust from operational certificate management. This model fits organizations that need tighter governance over internal identities, device certificates, and application trust chains. By keeping the root offline or tightly restricted and delegating issuance through an intermediate CA, security teams can reduce exposure while preserving administrative control. DigiCert’s private CA approach is well suited to environments where certificate policy, lifecycle discipline, and auditability are non-negotiable. It supports enterprise teams that need to standardize issuance across infrastructure, applications, and internal services without relying on public trust stores. For procurement teams, the value is in the architecture: a private intermediate CA gives you a durable trust layer that can support scale, policy enforcement, and operational separation in a way lower-tier certificate tools cannot.