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Symantec Managed PKI Service
| Symantec, the leading provider of cloud-based PKI solutions, delivers a proven and trusted solution to secure mission-critical interactions. Built on Symantec’s proven, globally managed, highly reliable infrastructure, Symantec Managed PKI Service reduces the cost and complexity associated with in-house PKI and focuses enterprises on delivering solutions, instead of infrastructure. | Trialware Purchasing Data Sheet (PDF) |
Key Features
- Trusted, Cloud-Based Infrastructure: Symantec Managed PKI Service is backed by 24x7x365 monitoring, management, and escalation across the globe with full disaster recovery. The Symantec Managed PKI Service infrastructure is certified annually by a third-party as part of a SAS-70 security audit, regular WebTrust audits, and specialized government audits of Symantec’s PKI infrastructure.
- Broad Application Support: Symantec Managed PKI Service issues X.509 certificates that interoperate with a wide variety of operating systems, devices, and VPN, mail, and web browser software. Certificate profiles for common applications are included to enable strong authentication, email encryption and signing, and Adobe PDF signing.
- Automated Certificate Lifecycle Management: Symantec Managed PKI Service automates configuration of common authentication, encryption, and signing applications across multiple platforms and browsers. Using the included PKI Client, Symantec Managed PKI Service can automatically configure a user’s browser, VPN client, mail client, or other application to use certificates issued by the Symantec Managed PKI Service. PKI Client also automates the process of renewing certificates, preventing expired certificates from interrupting business continuity.
- Enterprise Integration: Integrate Symantec Managed PKI Service with a corporate directory (using the included PKI Enterprise Gateway) to automatically populate certificate meta-data, select and enforce certificate and application policies, and publish issued certificates. PKI Enterprise Gateway also functions as a local Registration Authority and integrates with Hardware Security Modules to protect key material.
Key Benefits
- Reduces PKI Cost and Complexity: Symantec Managed PKI Service's cloud-based approach dramatically lowers the cost and complexity of PKI by eliminating the facilities, hardware, software, personnel, training, and maintenance expenses associated with deploying traditional in-house PKIs. With Symantec Managed PKI Service, organizations can deliver new security applications quickly & easily with no up-front capital investment.
- Simplifies the Administrator and End-User Experience: Symantec Managed PKI Service eliminates administrator tasks, and automates the process of provisioning certificates and configuring applications to use those certificates. By automating most aspects of issuing and using certificates, an organization can deliver time-sensitive security projects with less IT or end-user intervention.
- Maximizes Deployment Flexibility: Symantec Managed PKI Service enables a higher degree of responsiveness to meet evolving business strategies, and preservation of existing investments. Not only can organizations deliver multiple certificate-based security applications from a unified platform, but they can also tailor the deployment to meet their needs. Organizations can choose a completely cloud-based deployment for simplicity, or deploy in-premise components to enable additional enterprise integration and automation. These options can be mixed-and-matched within an environment to deliver maximum flexibility.
- Delivers Proven, Scalable, Reliable PKI: As the operator of the longest running commercial cloud-based certificate service in the world, Symantec has the most experience enabling PKI applications. Symantec’s procedures, policies, and infrastructure have been proven with large enterprises, governments, and manufacturers around the world. With Symantec, enterprise IT can focus on delivering security solutions that provide real business value, instead of on maintaining PKI infrastructure.
