Managed PKI services from DigiCert have revolutionized the cost and complexity of digital certificate infrastructure. These services now include support for smaller, lightweight, IoT devices. DigiCert’s systems are highly scalable and reliable, with the ability to provide support for billions of active certificates. DigiCert already provides large-scale, certificate-based IoT implementations for healthcare, industrial and other critical infrastructure organizations.
To address the challenges of securing, deploying and managing PKI at IoT scale, Device Authority’s Secure Credential Management solution directly integrates with DigiCert to securely automate device certificate provisioning for low-computing devices. Dynamic key generation and data-centric encryption are integrated with DigiCert certificates to ensure that credentials are securely and efficiently delivered and rotated to authorized devices, preventing the use of stolen credentials and unauthorized devices.
Device Authority and DigiCert’s combined solutions will enable certificate deployment and management at scale through:
- Secure Certificate Generation & Delivery
- Automated Certificate Renewal
- Automated Certificate Revocation
- Encrypted Certificate Store
“We’re pleased to partner with Device Authority to align our complementary solutions in a way that provides additional value to our customers,” said DigiCert CTO Dan Timpson. “Through this partnership, we will be able to enhance our current IoT device authentication, encryption and message integrity solutions and extend the appropriate level of PKI to more devices with limited compute power.”
The process of introducing and onboarding devices into an IoT application must be securely controlled while meeting the specific requirements of each IoT environment. Device Authority’s patented device key generation and registration controls provide a highly secure, policy-driven trust anchor for onboarding and provisioning devices.
“It’s great to have formed a new partnership with DigiCert, focused on delivering IoT security at scale to a growing market. Together we’ll create more opportunities for both companies,” said Darron Antill, CEO, Device Authority. “Our technology works closely with PKI to enable a more secure IoT and automated environment,” he added.
