Intertrust,
a pioneer in secure and trusted distributed systems technology, today
announced at IoT
World Expo that its Seacert PKI (public key infrastructure) service
has passed a significant industry milestone having provisioned more than
1.5 billion secure device identities, on-time and error-free. Leveraging
its position as the preferred provider of trusted digital certificates
that authenticate the identity of devices and services, today’s news
underscores Intertrust’s expanding role as a leading Certificate
Authority for IoT. Unlike most Certificate Authorities, Seacert is
purpose-built for consumer electronics and mobile, offering a highly
scalable, secure infrastructure. Having met the rigorous standards
needed for WebTrust compliance, Seacert addresses the challenging
authentication and certification needs of today’s hyper-connected world.
In
Forecast: IoT Security, Worldwide, 2018, published by Gartner in
February 2018, 39% of respondents said that security was one of the
top three technical barriers to IoT implementation success, higher than
any other factor. Gartner also
predicts that worldwide IoT security spending will reach $2.46
billion by 2020.
Even as the industry continues to grapple with how to best secure vast
IoT deployments, secure device identities are a fundamental component of
building trust. Seacert supports a variety of business processes,
credentials, and revocation mechanisms, delivering key cryptographic
provisioning and management services enabling device manufacturers and
software developers to deploy products and services securely, quickly
and cost effectively. It supports a variety of cryptographic standards
and protocols to secure these enterprise-grade ecosystems including the
billions of IoT devices coming online in the next few years.
“From controlling connected thermostats and improving healthcare to
significant industrial IoT applications like authenticating grid
equipment and renewable energy systems, IoT’s promise comes with serious
security risks that can lead to lost revenue, brand impact and
liability, and real threats to human safety,” said Bill Horne, vice
president and general manager of Intertrust Secure Systems. “Seacert is
backed by Intertrust’s decades-long track record of protecting and
governing digital content, data and applications, and its foundational
patent portfolio. We understand the complexities of securing devices at
scale, even in the most challenging environments.”
Seacert key to trusted infrastructure
Seacert provides certificate authority and managed PKI solutions for the
healthcare, automotive, smart cities and critical infrastructure, and
media and entertainment industries. Seacert is WebTrust compliant and
ISO 9001:2015 certified and specializes in delivering cryptographically
secure device identities at a massive scale and at a low-cost.
Tailored to distinct customer needs, Seacert creates cryptographically
secure device and service identities, enabling any device to participate
safely and securely in a connected ecosystem. Device identities can be
provisioned in the factory in bulk, or in the field through a scalable
cloud provisioning service. Seacert Professional Services works with
customers to customize any part of the IoT ecosystem including custom
X.509 certificate extensions, specialized CRLs, code signing, key
derivatives and authorization certificates. Seacert works with major
chipset manufacturers so that IoT device manufacturers can take full
advantage of cryptographic hardware features available on today’s
processors.
Seacert delivers a single solution with countless applications. Whether
protecting transactions and data privacy within the IoT ecosystem,
delivering the level of approved trust management services required by
DRM services, or delivering certificate management services for secure
messaging, Seacert services are key to any trusted infrastructure.
Visit Intertrust at IoT World Expo, booth # 846 to meet the team and to
learn more about Seacert. For more information, please visit www.intertrust.com/products/key-provisioning/.
About Intertrust
Intertrust provides trusted computing products and services to leading
global corporations – from mobile, CE and IoT manufacturers, to service
providers, and enterprise software platform companies. These products
include the world’s leading digital rights management (DRM), software
tamper resistance, and technologies to enable private data exchanges for
various verticals including energy, entertainment, retail/marketing,
automotive, fintech, and IoT.
Founded in 1990, Intertrust is headquartered in Silicon Valley with
regional offices in London, Tokyo, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad,
Beijing, Seoul, Riga, and Tallinn. The company has a legacy of
invention, and its fundamental contributions in the areas of computer
security and digital trust are globally recognized. Intertrust holds
hundreds of patents that are key to Internet security, trust, and
privacy management components of operating systems, trusted mobile code
and networked operating environments, web services, and cloud computing.
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