Hush Security Launches Runtime Certificate Intelligence with Post-Quantum Readiness Detection

Hush adds automated runtime detection and replacement for high-risk, non post-quantum-compliant certificates.

TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Hush Security today announced a powerful new capability as part of its Secretless Access Management Platform: runtime certificate intelligence. The capability continuously detects certificate usage in runtime, validates encryption posture, and determines whether certificates are post–quantum ready. Teams can now improve their machine identity posture, proactively prevent service outages, and avoid misconfigurations.

This new certificate intelligence module is built into Hush's secretless machine identity access platform, giving organizations a single control plane to govern and secure all machine identities. As AI agents, automation, and infrastructure complexity accelerate, Hush provides the visibility and preventative controls security and operations teams need to stay ahead.

"Certificates are often trusted long after they've outlived their cryptographic strength," said Shmulik Ladkani, CTO and Co-founder of Hush Security. "Our new runtime certificate intelligence lets teams see exactly how certs are used, check for post-quantum compliance, and eliminate blind spots, without the manual overhead.

Runtime Certificate Intelligence: What It Delivers

• Live Detection & Usage Mapping
  Continuously scans all environments (cloud, on–premises, hybrid) for certificates in use by workloads, services, AI agents, and microservices.
  
  
• Production Stability & Compliance 
  Keep production running with continuous, enterprise-grade certificate inspection and automatic detection of expired, weak, non-PQC or PCI-noncompliant certificates. 
  
  
• Automatic Replacement & Hardening
  When non-compliant certificates are found, Hush triggers automated replacement with a stronger, quantum-resistant certificate, without downtime, manual rotation, or human intervention.
  
  
• Unified Machine Identity Governance
  Certificate intelligence integrates with Hush's existing runtime secretless access management platform, unifying credential and certificate oversight.

"Certificates were always a weak spot, tracking them across environments, knowing which are active, expired, or compliant, was nearly impossible. Seeing certificate usage lets us clean up outdated certs, catch risky ones early, and start planning for quantum-safe encryption without adding extra work."
Director of Infrastructure Security, Fortune 500 Software

Why This Matters Now

Certificates are foundational to machine trust, yet many organizations rely on outdated, vulnerable cryptography without realizing it. Without runtime insight, expired, unused, or weak certificates silently remain active, creating open attack vectors and operational landmines.

• Security Driver:
  Attackers exploit weak or misused certificates to impersonate services, escalate privileges, or intercept traffic. Hush closes these blind spots before they're breached.
  
  
• Operational Driver:
  Certificate-related outages cost time and trust. Runtime intelligence reduces service downtime by ensuring valid, compliant certificates are always in place, automatically.
  
  
• Compliance Driver:
  Frameworks like NIST's Post-Quantum Cryptography guidance, PCI DSS 4.0 and others are increasing pressure to track and assess cryptographic assets. Hush enables teams to meet these standards continuously.

This new module empowers security teams to:

• Detect weak or non-compliant certificates before they cause damage
• Reduce cryptographic blind spots current tools ignore
• Enforce least-privilege access and Zero Trust for certificate-based authentication
• Meet post-quantum and compliance mandates faster and with less effort

Get Started

Hush offers organizations a free certificate health check and a comprehensive report to help establish a secure machine identity baseline

About Hush Security

Hush Security enables organizations to eliminate static secrets and vaults, replacing them with just-in-time, policy–based access for machine identities. Its platform blends runtime visibility, posture analysis, certificate intelligence, and prevention into a unified control plane. Backed by Battery Ventures and YL Ventures, Hush is headquartered in Tel Aviv and already securing enterprise customers across multiple Fortune 500s.

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