Enterprise Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
Public Key Infrastructure could revolutionize the way companies do business online - if only anyone would use it, says PKI expert.
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is a security mechanism for guaranteeing that on-line communications are authentic and private. It is gaining as a means implementing secure e-commerce, thereby combating one the major concerns about doing business online. It has been adopted by many Banks, Financial Institutions, Government, and etc. There are a few global Certificate Authorities are attempting to promote their PKI solutions across the board such as eMudhra, VeriSign, etc.
SSD has partnered with eMudhra to offer PKI solutions to all enterprises. We have a team of technical professionals who are well-trained to consult and build the PKI digital platform to facilitate the usage of digital identities and certificates securely interact with their systems. eMudhra Certificate Manager (emCA) Solution Suite brings strong confidence to all e-transactions and supports new business models, providing flexible and secure access for employees, customers, and partners while striking the right balance between the cost, risk, and convenience.
The solution is an all-encompassing ecosystem of modules that enable the issuance, life-cycle management, usage, distribution of multiple type digital signatures using various algorithms and key lengths. emCA is a robust system that able to handle processes with a capacity of up-to 200,000 transactions a day and it has a capability to do 10-times of that amount
What is emCA?
Digital Signature Certificates allows Corporate, Government Agencies, Financial Institutions etc. to leverage digital signatures and encryption to provide unparalleled security services that include authentication of user and device, data security, integrity and verification.
emCA is a robust, standards compliant, fully scalable policy driven digital certificate issuance and management solution with the support for commercial strength of popular keypair algorithms. Certificates generated by emCA comply with the X.509 v3 standards. emCA has the capability to support custom developed algorithms.
Our PKI Solution offerings
PKI Solution offers in On-Prem Hardware and Virtual Appliance platform. It is a robust and scalable PKI solution.
On top of that we do offer PKI consulting services from drafting the plan, design, deploy, and as-well-as training to users.
What is manage PKI ?
SSD has offered Managed PKI hosted service to enterprises. It helps to reduce the burden of customer’s IT resources to manage growing & complex certificates for all users’ managed devices like desktop, mobile, tablet, etc. Thus, they are able to focus on supporting their core business without added any pressures of managing the life cycle of ever-growing PKI requirements, ensuring users and applications are protected with proper access controls, authentication and encryption. PKI encompasses roles, policies and procedures that are necessary to manage the process of requesting, issuing, installing and renewing digital certificates.
We provide Enterprises to use cloud-hosted PKI infrastructure-as-a-service. Managed PKI services automate client certificate life cycles and include dedicated personnel, systems and distributed data centers that scale to meet demanding needs. They also provide dashboards that reduce the time and effort required to manage the certificates
Companies offering these services frequently feature automated PKI platforms that integrate with enterprise systems to simplify deployment to clients. Certificate life cycles are managed through open standard APIs, like REST or SCEP, for certificates associated with users, devices and networks. Standard APIs enable managed certificate services to easily integrate with third-party tools and systems. Managed PKI service providers can customize workflows that automate certificate requests, like SSL/TLS, code signing, document signing and more.
Managed PKI services bring the necessary infrastructure, automation, control and distribution of certificates and simplify and centralize management. When fragmented in-house tools are deployed, certificate management can become complex and difficult. Companies offering managed PKI services provide integrated processes and systems that ease PKI management:
- Security staff that is current with security and regulatory requirements to keep systems current and in compliance.
- A purpose-built, dedicated, scalable and automated platform for organizations to simplify PKI deployments.
- Stringent policies and procedures that are adhered to the common best practices
- Reduced security risk associated with expired certificates, and security that comes out of compliance, because the managed PKI platforms provide multiple alerts ahead of expiration
- A scalable security platform and infrastructure to meet enterprise needs.
Lower Total Cost of Ownership for PKI
- Volume or bulk purchase discounts are applied for certificates
- Flexible business terms accommodate organizations of all sizes. Deposit account funds, or unlimited issuance licenses.
- Streamlined lifecycle management reduces number of man hours needed for certificate administration
- Integrations with Active Directory and MDMs automate provisioning
