Online and Digital Identification, Securing Web 2.0, PKI and Digital Certificates

Symantec reaches milestone in certificate issuance

Monday, August 1, 2011

In the quest for universal secure digital verification, Symantec Corp. has announced it’s issued over a quarter-billion digital certificates to verify user and device identity.

In a press release, Adam Geller, senior director, User Authentication, said that the volume of certificates issued reflects the company’s efforts in getting commercial and government organizations to understand how leveraging digital certificates can provide strong authentication features.


Additionally, Symantec has rebranded its Managed PKI Service, now in its third generation. This service is based in the cloud and offers users a secure, scalable service. Users will be able to deploy and scale certificate-powered security applications easily for cloud and mobile computing models. [end] 

Symantec has created the Symantec Certificate Intelligence Center, a cloud-based service for SSL certificate management and control.

Geared toward enterprises with large numbers of certificates, the center is designed to help companies proactively manage certificates from any Certificate Authority in order to reduce workload on IT staffs. It functions as a central repository and automated scanning service that provides certificate discovery across diverse networks.

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Symantec has released new pieces to its cloud portfolio of services, reports Sci-Tech Today. These include a cloud information protection platform, a service roadmap and additional cloud security, produced through a partnership with Salesforce.com

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AuthenTec announced that its Eikon Digital Privacy Manager now comes pre-configured with Symantec Validation and ID Protection Service (VIP).

The addition of Symantec VIP to Eikon fingerprint readers enable users to perform three-factor authentication via a single swipe of a finger, combining something you are with something you know and something you have – the Eikon fingerprint reader.

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have chosen Experian and Symantec’s joint two-factor credentialing product for enterprise remote identity proofing and multi-factor authentication credentialing. This decision is part of Science Applications International Corporation’s $78 million contract to help CMS solve problems in conjunction with serving the uninsured population.

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