psw-group.de Sectigo Lite (PositiveSSL), € 18.00/yr.

Sectigo Lite (PositiveSSL) has been updated on April 15, 2024 (added July 24, 2020)

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PSW GROUP is a German Internet-security specialist founded in 2000 by Christian Heutger in Langenselbold, near Frankfurt am Main. The business is now based in Fulda, Hesse, Germany and operates through PSW GROUP GmbH & Co. KG. Patrycja Schrenk became managing director on March 1, 2019, after Heutger transferred management to the company's long-serving marketing director. The organization is privately held and falls within the 11–50 employee range.

The company began as an Internet-services provider and developed into a full-service supplier for digital certificates, encryption, authentication, certificate lifecycle management, electronic signatures, security consulting, and training. A close cooperation with Sectigo, then known as Comodo, made certificates and signature products a central business area in 2003. The 2004 combination with Schroff & Partner broadened its technical and media capabilities, and PSW became a registration authority in 2009, allowing it to perform identity validation for certificate applications.

The proprietary PSW Console launched in 2019 as the central certificate-management environment. PSW TRAINING and PSW CONSULTING were integrated into the group in 2021, alongside WebTrust registration-authority certification and annual re-audits. Signius electronic-signature services also joined the portfolio. Partnerships for certificate lifecycle management continued in subsequent years, and PSW achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification in 2024. The company celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2025.

The core SSL/TLS certificate range covers domain validation, organization validation, and extended validation. Customers can choose single-domain, multidomain, unified-communications, wildcard, ECC, and PSD2-oriented products from multiple certificate authorities. This breadth is useful when an organization needs to balance validation depth, browser recognition, domain coverage, certificate-authority location, and price instead of accepting one default certificate line.

S/MIME and email certificates cover email-, identity-, and organization-validated identities, including Class 1, Class 2, Class 3, RSASSA-PSS, Verified Mark Certificate, and Common Mark Certificate options. They support message encryption, sender authentication, and integrity verification. Code-signing certificates cover organization and extended validation, with private-key delivery through hardware tokens, HSM environments, or cloud services. The range supports software publishers that need trusted distribution and stronger control over signing keys.

Automation is one of PSW GROUP's strongest distinctions. ACME-enabled certificates automate ordering, validation, issuance, installation, and renewal through the standardized ACME protocol. Common clients include Certbot, win-acme, cert-manager, acme.sh, lego, Certify, dehydrated, and Posh-ACME, while compatibility extends to Apache, NGINX, IIS, and common cloud or hosting platforms. If an automated renewal fails, the existing certificate remains valid until expiration and can be replaced manually while the client configuration is corrected.

Managed PKI is designed for companies that need centralized certificate issuance for multiple departments, employees, customers, partners, devices, or domains. Administrators can assign rights at domain and profile level, control who may request, approve, renew, or revoke certificates, and integrate issuance through web interfaces or automated APIs. The wider lifecycle toolset includes inventory, expiry reminders, deployment scanning, role-based controls, two-factor authentication, IP restrictions, and optional key escrow. This turns certificate purchasing into a governed operational process rather than a sequence of unrelated renewals.

Electronic signing covers document-signing certificates, advanced electronic signatures, qualified electronic signatures, and Signius volume packages for 500, 2,000, or 5,000 signatures. The service can support contracts, invoices, approvals, and other document workflows where the signer must be attributable and document integrity must be protected. Available certificate-authority choices and identity-validation requirements vary by product, so regulated buyers should match the signature level to the legal and operational purpose.

The portfolio extends beyond certificate issuance. Website Security includes SiteLock malware protection, CodeGuard backup services, and HackerGuardian vulnerability scanning. CodeGuard provides automated backups, reporting, source-change alerts, malware monitoring, and one-click restoration, while vulnerability scanning supplies web-based scheduling, findings, and remediation guidance. Server and application software licenses include Plesk, LiveConfig, CloudLinux, and PDFlib. Privacy, information-security, and employee-awareness consulting complement training associated with ISO/IEC 27001 and related frameworks.

PSW GROUP is not a conventional shared-hosting, VPS, dedicated-server, or colocation provider. Its role is the trust and security layer around websites, email, software, devices, and enterprise infrastructure. The website and commercial documentation are in German, and no multilingual/localized version exists. International customers who do not work in German will benefit from direct assistance before choosing a certificate, validation process, or contractual option.