Universal SSH Key Manager

Stop guessing who can log into your servers. Start by mapping every SSH identity in hours, not weeks. With Universal SSH Key Manager (UKM) Zero Trust, you connect your directories and clouds, point discovery at your estate, and watch it inventory hosts, authorized_keys, and known key pairs. It merges duplicates, tags owners from LDAP/AD, flags stale or orphaned entries, and groups assets by environment. From there, you define access policies by team, repo, or role, and set time limits, MFA, and approval steps. The dashboard gives you a live roster of who can reach what, and how.

Daily access becomes predictable. Engineers request entry through a self-service portal or CLI, receive a short‑lived SSH certificate issued by an internal CA, and log in without ever handling long‑term private keys. You can require ticket IDs, enforce command restrictions, and inject environment‑specific banners. For automation, bind certificates to CI jobs or Ansible runs, letting pipelines fetch temporary credentials only when a job starts. When the timer runs out, the credential expires automatically—no cleanup tasks to remember.

Operations teams manage change at scale. Replace static public keys across fleets with a guided rollout that swaps authorized_keys for certificate trust, validates connectivity, and creates a rollback point. Schedule periodic reviews that nudge owners to re‑attest access, and auto‑remove unused entries. Rotate host certificates on cadence, export events to your SIEM, and generate evidence for auditors that shows who had access, when it was approved, and what policy allowed it. Drift checks alert you if a server regains manual keys or if a user’s entitlements exceed policy.

When something goes wrong, response is immediate. Suspend a user and issuance stops across the board. Revoke or quarantine certificates, push a bulk cleanup to strip lingering keys, and temporarily tighten policies for sensitive environments. Offboarding a contractor takes one action that cascades to every system. All of this is scriptable through REST and CLI, with Terraform modules to codify policies next to your infrastructure. You get the control of zero‑trust access with everyday workflows your teams can actually follow.