Actalis is a European Certification Authority and eIDAS Qualified Trust Service Provider. It offers publicly trusted TLS/SSL certificates with ACME automation and enterprise certificate lifecycle management.
HQ
Italy
Founded
1994
Employees
1270
Actalis delivers EU-regulated trust services and publicly trusted certificates for websites, applications, and machine identities. It is commonly used where European trust services (eIDAS/PSD2) and automation-first certificate operations are required at scale.
Key capabilities include EU trust and sovereignty through Actalis’ role as a European CA and eIDAS Qualified Trust Service Provider (QTSP). Actalis also supports ACME-based automation for simpler issuance and renewals, offers a Free plan to get started quickly with automated DV certificates, and provides enterprise governance via CertiManager for certificate inventory and visibility, policy enforcement, and lifecycle automation (CLM / Managed PKI).
Actalis offers publicly trusted TLS/SSL certificates for different assurance levels and site types, including Domain Validation (DV), Organisation Validation (OV), and Extended Validation (EV). For organisations managing many endpoints, ACME automation helps reduce manual work and renewal risk, especially as certificate lifetimes continue to shorten.
Beyond standard TLS/SSL, Actalis provides EU-focused and enterprise trust services such as qualified certificates, including QWAC for eIDAS and PSD2 contexts, S/MIME for email encryption and signing, and Code Signing to protect software integrity. Actalis also supports mutual TLS (mTLS) for secure machine-to-machine authentication, where tighter lifecycle control is often required.
For organisations that need central control and auditability, CertiManager provides a platform to issue, manage, and automate certificates across their lifecycle (CLM / Managed PKI). This supports certificate inventory, ownership clarity, policy enforcement, and renewal automation across teams and environments.
Actalis also offers post-quantum initiatives and Trusted IoT services to help prove the authenticity and integrity of data generated by connected devices.
Actalis S.p.A. is headquartered in Ponte San Pietro (Bergamo), Italy. Since 2009, it has been part of the Aruba Group, led by Aruba S.p.A., a European provider of cloud services, data centres, web hosting, email services, domain registration, and PEC certified email.
Founded in 1994, Aruba S.p.A. serves over 16 million users and operates infrastructure across multiple data centres. The group manages millions of domains and email accounts, including PEC certified mail accounts used widely across Italy.
Aruba offers services through multiple brands. Aruba Business (founded in 2015) supports a network of IT partners, while Pratiche.it provides document delivery and recovery services across Italy. Since 2016, Aruba has been the Official Registry for the .cloud top-level domain (TLD).
Aruba Enterprise provides Cloud, Data Centre, and Trust Service solutions to businesses and public authorities, delivering customised implementations and managed services for organisations with more complex requirements.
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