Apr, 2009 : VeriSign Introduces Certificate Discovery Module

📅 April 22, 2009 - An enhancement to company's Managed PKI for SSL Services; offered at no additional charge to customers with a Managed PKI for SSL account.

VeriSign, Inc., a provider of internet infrastructure services, yesterday introduced a new Certificate Discovery Module, which has been designed for businesses that operate across complex heterogeneous infrastructures. The company says that the Certificate Discovery Module is an enhancement to its Managed PKI for SSL Services, offered at no additional charge to customers with a Managed PKI for SSL account.

It claims that VeriSign Certificate Discovery module offers most comprehensive level of control over SSL Certificates issued by multiple Certificate Authorities (CAs) and deployed across several departments or business units. The company further states that the module enables administrators to view a complete inventory of all SSL Certificates and their status without having to manually navigate extensive SSL deployments, which is time consuming and prone to costly error. Any mistake can have an immediate and critical impact on productivity, revenue and operating costs; for instance, an unexpected certificate expiration on a critical server could cripple a business. The module can help administrators to avoid such mistakes, it adds.

The company explains that administrators can quickly identify rogue certificates and bring them under management. Businesses typically employ enterprise solutions to centralize and simplify the management of the company's SSL Certificate portfolio. Though this is effective for managing certificates that are purchased via the system itself, it doesn't address the many out-of-console or "rogue" certificate purchases that often take place within organizations. It further explains that these rogue certificate implementations are incredibly difficult to track and puts businesses at risk of unexpected downtime. Certificate Discovery minimizes this risk by helping administrators identify and bring these certificates under management, while taking advantage of cost savings through aligning certificate purchases with pre-negotiated contract prices.

"As enterprises grow, it's too easy for IT managers to lose visibility and control of SSL Certificates - and that makes it harder to manage encryption products across their network," said Michael Lin, Vice President of SSL product management at VeriSign. "VeriSign's Certificate Discovery Module vastly simplifies the task of controlling extensive SSL deployments with multiple CAs, enabling managers to reduce the risk of SSL downtime and maximize the return on their IT investments."