Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Solutions

As business processes become more tightly integrated and self-service becomes the norm, enterprises must open closed networks to business partners, customers and the mobile workforce. To reduce risk exposure and comply with security regulations, companies rely on public key infrastructure (PKI) and digital certificates.

A PKI platform allows the Certificate Authority (CA) to issue, renew, revoke, and manage digital certificates for strong authentication, encryption, and for secure digital signing. Historically, PKI solutions have been costly to deploy and required significant IT investment and expertise to manage system infrastructure and support users. As the need for authentication expands beyond internal access and users, companies require flexibility, fast deployment and integration in their PKI services.

The VeriSign PKI certificate issuing platform and standards-based approach offer maximum flexibility to give you a choice today and options in the future. Every year, products are entering the market with more sophisticated native PKI support. As a result, digital certificates may be installed on a growing range of open standards-based devices including computers, tokens, smartcards, mobile devices, and more.

With the VeriSign managed services model, you can establish a robust PKI and certificate authority (CA) system without the cost and time-to-market burden of in-house PKI deployment. VeriSign maintains the operational infrastructure across our highly available, global Internet infrastructure with binding service level agreements. Most importantly, you can leverage the time tested policies and practices employed by VeriSign which provide the backbone for our managed PKI operations.

Whether you require a PKI service designed for heterogeneous operating systems and platforms, a solution with tight integration into Windows® and Active Directory®, or high volume, batch issuance of certificates, the VeriSign infrastructure can deliver and is available worldwide, 24/7/365. Choose from a fully hosted solution where VeriSign operates the entire infrastructure, a partially hosted PKI service within your own network, or, in very specialized cases, leverage our in-premise PKI solutions.