PKI Solutions

What is PKI?

Widely used by organizations looking to protect sensitive information, PKI is the infrastructure for securing Internet-based communications. Specifically, PKI is a combination of hardware and software products, policies and procedures. Together they provide the basic security required for transacting business. As a result, users (who don’t know each other, or who are widely distributed), can communicate securely through a chain of trust.

A PKI solution should consist of:

• Security policy
• Certificate authority (CA)
• Registration authority (RA)
• Certificate distribution system
• PKI-enabled applications

PKI helps companies transact commerce on-line with full confidence and can also be used to protect:

• Communications between Web servers and browsers
• E-mail
• Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
• Financial transactions over the network
• Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
• Mobile Internet transactions