Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) vs. Sectigo Certificate Manager
A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.
| Metric | Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) | Sectigo Certificate Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 3.4 | 4.5 |
| Review count | 12 | 198 |
| Ease of use | 8.4 | 9.0 |
| Ease of setup | 6.7 | 8.8 |
| Quality of support | 9.0 | 8.8 |
| Meets requirements | 8.4 | 9.0 |
| NPS | 9.090909 | 71.06599 |
| Small Business | 16.7% | 14.1% |
| Mid-Market | 41.7% | 32.2% |
| Enterprise | 41.7% | 53.7% |
| Total page views | 235 | 1,336 |
| Total LLM citations | 259 | 9,404 |
Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS)
AD CS provides customizable services for issuing and managing digital certificates used in software security systems that employ public key technologies.
Sectigo Certificate Manager
Sectigo Certificate Manager (SCM) helps organizations eliminate certificate chaos and reduce hidden risk with a cloud-native certificate lifecycle management (CLM) platform built for simplicity at scale. SCM discovers, issues, automates, and governs certificates across your entire identity environment through a single, centralized dashboard so nothing goes unmanaged.As a fully CA-agnostic solution, SCM works with both public and private certificate authorities and supports modern enrollment protocols including ACME, SCEP, and EST.