GlobalSign Partners with nCipher to Provide Hardware Based Trust to Enterprise CA Users
New combination of nCipher HSM solution and GlobalSign Trusted Root CA Certificate helps Enterprise CA customers achieve fast Return on Investment
LONDON, UK – GlobalSign (www.globalsign.com), one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in Digital Certificate security today announced a partnership with nCipher plc (LSE: NCH) to offer publicly trusted CA Root Certificates housed securely within nCipher Hardware Security Modules (HSMs). This new integrated solution offers immediate benefits to enterprises using in-house
In recent years many enterprises and major organisations have established their own Enterprise Certificate Authority (CA) with the primary goal of enhancing security for an ever increasing number of diverse web based business processes. For an enterprise to establish their own
To avoid these warnings the enterprise would be forced to either accept the increased support costs or to undertake a Root Embedding Programme to have the self-signed Root CA Certificate inserted into all operating systems, browsers and applications. Such a program is expensive and labour intensive, taking many years before the enterprise’s Root CA Certificate is sufficiently ubiquitous to be used without support issues. The time and cost associated with an Embedding Program massively outweigh any advantage that would be associated with implementing an
As a leading WebTrust accredited Certification Authority, GlobalSign has maintained its own pioneering Root Embedding Programme for over 10 years and now the GlobalSign Root CA Certificate is trusted by practically all mainstream browsers and applications. With GlobalSign’s RootSign there is no need for individual Enterprise CAs to have their own Embedding Programme, instead GlobalSign allows use of its own ubiquitous
“By deploying hardware protection for
“The partnership with nCipher is a perfect fit, as the two solutions go hand in hand. RootSign naturally stipulates a requirement for a HSM to protect both GlobalSign and the RootSign customer. nCipher’s market leading hardware platforms deliver highly competitive solutions tailored specifically for the
The RootSign / nCipher HSM combined solution is available now from either GlobalSign at http://www.globalsign.com/pki/rootsign.cfm or through nCipher at http://www.ncipher.com/
About
Established in 1996 and as a WebTrust accredited public certificate authority, GlobalSign offers publicly trusted SSL (standard and new Extended Validation), S/MIME and code signing certificates. These core solutions allow its thousands of enterprise customers to conduct secure online transactions and data submission, and provide tamper-proof distributable code as well as being able to bind identities to client certificates for email security and remote two factor authentication, such as SSL VPNs. It has sales and support expertise available through its
In October 2006, GlobalSign was acquired by Certification Services Ltd (now GlobalSign Ltd.) a
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CEO: Masatoshi Kumagai
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About nCipher
nCipher protects critical enterprise data for many of the world's most security-conscious organisations. Delivering solutions in the areas of identity management, data protection, enterprise key management and cryptographic hardware, nCipher enables businesses to identify who can access data, to protect data both in transit and at rest, and to comply with the growing number of security-related regulations. nCipher is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE:NCH). www.ncipher.com
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