ACCESS AND IDENTITY MANAGEMENT SOLUTION ELIMINATES TRADITIONAL PKI ISSUES WITHOUT COMPROMISING ON TRUST

ACCESS AND IDENTITY MANAGEMENT SOLUTION ELIMINATES TRADITIONAL PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) ISSUES WITHOUT COMPROMISING ON TRUST
Simplified, easy-to-integrate CertifyID suite by Wisekey delivers cost-effective security solution in a flexible manner that overcomes traditional infrastructure and operational restrictions

Geneva, Switzerland, Monday 22nd October 2007 - Wisekey - a leading provider of digital security identity authentication and access management solutions - today announced its CertifyID Suite has overcome the traditional roadblocks, which have hindered the uptake of PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) - complexity, cost, and inability to seamlessly integrate with organization’s existing applications - by developing a solution, which is compatible with the commonly used Windows Server Platform. The CertifyID Suite allows for the more creative and flexible use of the PKI technology by enabling a diversity of deployment models to eliminate the limited in-house versus managed digital security and identity management debate; and demystifying the legal issues, which has plagued PKI take up.

By mainstreaming the functionalities of PKI, the technology can be massively applied and easily integrated into organizations, so individual's identity and access rights can be managed by organizations on a wide scale basis. The traditional and complicated approach (which was intended to ensure security no matter what) has had the net result of insecurity – very few organizations have chosen to use the technology and seek much less secure, but practical alternatives instead.

Wisekey has taken a bottom-up approach and built its CertifyID platform based on an organization's traditional behavior – to manage the identity of its organization and the identities of its communities in accordance with customary business practice. For example, companies issue business cards and email accounts to their employees without fear, and they should be able to take the same approach to using PKI for digital identity and access management without having to fear the legal uncertainties that have been voiced by many.

By building its CertifyID suite on a simplified PKI approach, Wisekey has not eliminated the traditional levels of security and reliability that PKI offers. On the contrary, WISeKey has added layers of security and redundancy with a wide variety of modules that form part of a comprehensive PKI suite, such as full data persistence, disaster recovery functionality, CRL Management, and true OCSP validation. This means organizations can simply activate the certification services already in the Windows Server Platform and add the CertifyID Suite which bolsters their security, functionality and their capacity to issue and manage publicly trusted certificates, without having to implement traditional PKI software, or outsourcing to a managed PKI service provider. The modules, which make up the CertifyID suite can also be installed separately for organizations seeking to add some components to the PKI systems they are already operating as a means of enhancing their security and functionality.

"Wisekey’s next challenge is to build PKI technology so seamlessly within its CertifyID suite that organizations won't be aware they are using PKI. Once the technology is at this stage, people will automatically trust their online interactions and appreciate the new improved secure functionalities, without question or fear,” stated Juan Avellan, Deputy CEO, Wisekey. "Although this may be counterintuitive for the PKI specialists, Wisekey believes trust and reliability of communications is what organizations and people interact on (and expect to interact on), on a day-to-day basis.”

Wisekey’s upgraded CertifyID suite, which is easily integrated into existing organization's infrastructure, is being widely deployed by public and private sector organizations, of all sizes, from government and health service organizations through to the automotive, aerospace, financial service, and manufacturing industries.