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title: Adding trusted CA certificates to PingCentral
description: For application owners to securely promote Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) applications to PingFederate and PingAccess environments, trusted certificate authority (CA) certificates must be available in PingCentral.
component: pingcentral
version: 2.2
page_id: pingcentral:pingcentral_for_iam_administrators:pingcentral_add_trusted_certs
canonical_url: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingcentral/2.2/pingcentral_for_iam_administrators/pingcentral_add_trusted_certs.html
revdate: August 15, 2023
section_ids:
  steps: Steps
  result: Result:
  result-2: Result:
---

# Adding trusted CA certificates to PingCentral

For application owners to securely promote Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) *(tooltip: \<div class="paragraph">
\<p>A standard, XML-based, message-exchange framework enabling the secure transmittal of authentication tokens and other user attributes across domains.\</p>
\</div>)* applications to PingFederate and PingAccess environments, trusted certificate authority (CA) *(tooltip: \<div class="paragraph">
\<p>An entity that issues digital certificates.\</p>
\</div>)* certificates must be available in PingCentral.

## Steps

1. To add a trusted certificate to PingCentral, select the **Settings** tab.

2. Expand the **Security** menu and select **Trusted CA Certificates**.

   ### Result:

   The **Trusted CA Certificates** page displays a list of the certificates currently available in PingCentral.

3. Click **Add Certificate**.

4. In the **Add Certificate** window, in the **Alias** field, enter a unique name for the certificate.

5. Click **Choose File**, select the certificate, and click **Add** to upload it.

   ### Result:

   The certificate displays in the list of trusted CA certificates.

6. Click the **Expand** icon for the certificate to view details.

   \+ image::dwn1624648315152.png\[alt="An screen capture of the Trusted CA Certificate page containing several certificates. The Test signing cert certificate is expanded.",role="border-no-padding"]