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Symantec Exceeds a Quarter of a Billion User and Device Certificates and Enhances Cloud Infrastructure to Support
Continued Growth
Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that it has issued more than a quarter of a billion certificates verifying
user and device identity. The milestone not only points to certificates as a critical foundation for protecting
sensitive customer data today, but also to their growing importance in smart phones, tablets, set-top boxes and other
devices.
Certificates enable the strong authentication, email encryption and digital signature applications essential to secure
sensitive data against increasingly frequent, targeted and severe cyber attacks. Managing certificates through Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is critically important, especially on the skyrocketing number of mobile devices as well as cloud-based applications
requiring authentication. The emergence of nontraditional PKI applications – such as securing machine-to-machine
communications as part of delivering smart electrical grids – is among many reasons that certificate-based PKI is more
important than ever.
Unmatched Capability
As one of the largest Certificate Authorities (CAs) and PKI providers in the world, with more than a decade of
experience, Symantec enables IT security architects to address a wide range of security challenges with scalable,
flexible and reliable enterprise solutions that can meet both current and future needs. The newly rebranded Symantec
Managed PKI Service – the third generation of Symantec’s PKI – is built from the ground up as a secure, scalable,
multi-tenant cloud-based service that helps protect customer data and preserve customer trust. This platform makes it
easier than ever to deploy and scale certificate-powered security applications for the rapidly growing number of
organisations leveraging mobile and cloud computing models.
A Legacy of Trust
Symantec has a strong reputation of securing critical internet infrastructure, with its root certificates ubiquitous
among major browsers. Symantec’s many government certifications and approvals prove not only the depth of its expertise,
but also its track record of running PKI in the cloud. A broad range of customers includes large enterprises, national
governments and hi-tech industry consortiums such as WiMAX, CableLabs, CI+ Forum and Symantec’s own global affiliate
network. As networking capabilities are increasingly embedded into critical infrastructure, such as the electrical grid,
Symantec’s PKI solutions will play a critical role in delivering secure, trusted communications to protect this
infrastructure from attack.
Symantec Managed PKI Service
On-premise certificate-based PKI solutions have historically been complex and costly to use, deploy and operate. To
specifically address these challenges, Symantec Managed PKI Service, is a cloud-based offering that makes protection of
sensitive data easier and more cost-effective. The cloud-based approach dramatically lowers the cost and complexity of
establishing PKI-based solutions, while new automation capabilities significantly reduce end-user and IT intervention
and preserve business continuity. Symantec Managed PKI Service revolutionises the focus of PKI from infrastructure to
delivering applications that address customers’ real-world problems.
Availability Symantec Managed PKI Service is available now. For more information, please visit: http://bit.ly/uauthen
Quotes “Hitting a quarter-billion user and device certificates is a huge milestone that reflects the success we’ve had enabling
large commercial and government organisations to improve their security by leveraging certificates for strong
authentication, encryption and digital signatures. Symantec’s newly released Managed PKI Service will only accelerate
the adoption of cloud-based certificate solutions to power the next generation of security applications and the
organisations that will increasingly rely on them.”
– Adam Geller, senior director, User Authentication, Symantec
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