Managed Services PKI

Business Value

Entrust Managed Services PKI provides a hosted certification authority (CA), enabling customers to quickly and easily request and manage user certificates online from infrastructure security services located in secure state-of-the-art facilities. By leveraging a managed PKI service, the setup, configuration, operations, maintenance and monitoring of your PKI security infrastructure are handled by Entrust.

Using the service, customers can leverage digital certificates for authentication, digital signatures and encryption purposes to enable secure email, file and folder encryption, authenticated remote access (VPN) and secure electronic forms and PDFs. Entrust adds value to each of these applications with security that is simple to deploy and transparent to use.

Advantages of a Managed Services PKI

An Entrust product-based managed service model enables you to rapidly deploy certificates within your organization to offer more products and services securely while benefiting from the following features:

  • Choice. Entrust supports migration from a service model to an in-house model – and vice versa – and leverages the same enhanced security solutions to help protect your investment in security and offers alternatives as requirements evolve and business expands.
  • Rapid Deployment. The service is not only fast and easy to deploy, but is simple to use with security expertise and infrastructure already in place. There is no need to hire, develop or retain security or deployment specialists. Intuitive browser interfaces handle enrollment and administration with automated digital ID management that enables transparent application security.
  • Trusted Advisor Expertise. Entrust security specialists work with a service provider to provide outstanding service and data processing capabilities. This combination brings you reliable, top-notch security operations, facilities and support.
  • Risk Mitigation & Control. The solution provides a comprehensive medium-assurance security foundation with flexibility to extend solutions to more users and services as an organization's needs change. Server upgrades, on-going CA audits and business continuity are managed for your enterprise or government agency. Rich, flexible policy gives you control to customize your security solution.
  • Breadth of Solutions. Entrust's commitment to standards and interoperability gives organizations more ways to leverage digital certificates across many off-the-shelf applications users already know how to use, including Adobe Reader, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Office® and more.

The Smart Option for Your Organization

Whether your organization is attracted to the hands-off approach of a managed PKI service or the control and management of an in-house CA, the Entrust Authority PKI portfolio can be leveraged to address even the most trying security challenges. Organizations best suited to a managed PKI service generally have one or more of the following characteristics:

  • A desire to grow security solutions over time while requiring the flexibility to migrate to an in-house solution as requirements evolve
  • A need to launch one or more e-business initiatives that require rapid time-to-market
  • Small or decentralized IT departments with limited technical expertise and/or security budgets
  • Preference for outsourcing non-core business operations such as Web hosting, VPN services or general IT services
  • A requirement for a medium-assurance security environment

Generally, organizations suited to internal security management have skilled employees who provide unique insight into business and security technology; want to own and control security capital and personnel; and maintain a long-term perspective on total cost of ownership.

Entrust – Ready to Listen
To enable secure communication, protect identities, and safeguard sensitive information, contact Entrust to learn if a managed PKI solution is a match for your security requirements and can help enable your business. From streamlining business practices, improving efficiency, reducing cost and simplifying audits, Entrust Managed Services PKI is ready to work for you.

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