| If current trends are to be believed, a lot of business in
the future would be generated in the form of online services and
electronic commerce. A key concern in this new emerging market-place
is obviously that related to security of transactions. One of the
primary barriers to the growth of electronic commerce is, therefore,
the authentication of the users of this marketplace.
The concept which promises to take care of all these issues is that
related to digital certification consisting of Public Key Infrastructure
(PKI) services. These services are assuming a lot of importance
as general purpose tools for authentication, authorization, encryption
and key management for digital signatures in a variety of Internet/intranet
applications, including secure messaging and electronic commerce
Datawiz Corp has PKI experts on staff to help you with any of your
public key infrastructure related projects and efforts. Some of
the areas where our engineers can provide assistance are:
Analysis, Investigation and Recommendation
- PKI Product Review, Analysis and Recommendation
- Application of PKI to address business needs and achieve regulatory
compliance
- Key management topics (key recovery/escrow, rekey, revocation,
expiry)
- PKI standards (X.509, PKIX, SMIME, SSL/TLS, XMLDSIG)
- PKI trust architectures, establishing trust across PKI domains
- Federal Bridge CA, Federal Identity Credentialing Committee
guidelines
- Certificate path development and validation
PKI Enablement and Integration
- Integrate digital certificate usage with new and existing applications
- X.500 and LDAP servers
- Revocation checking technologies (CRL, OCSP, SCVP etc.)
- Secure web applications and online forms
- Firewalls, VPN products, secure remote access products
- Secure email
- Security portals and single sign-on
- Cryptographic smart cards and tokens
PKI Deployment
- PKI Pilots – definition, implementation and lessons learned
- Requirements gathering for PKI implementations
- PKI product testing and functional analyses
- PKI cost analyses
- Development of PKI deployment roadmaps
- Review and selection of appropriate PKI vendor products/services
- Development of Certificate Policies (CP), Certification Practices
Statements (CPS), Registration Practices Statements (RPS), and
Certificate Profiles
- User registration, revocation, renewal and key recovery solutions
- Certificate Acceptance Infrastructure, Certification Arbitration
Module (CAM)
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