Identity and access management solutions provider Device Authority has formed an alliance with Entrust, an identities, payments and data protection solutions firm.
The alliance will see the pair provide an automated Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificate management offering to help businesses remove the logistical challenges of large-scale IoT deployment.
“Without the proper management of machine identities, organisations can’t guarantee the confidentiality of information that flows to authorised machines or prevent the flow of information to unauthorised machines,” said CEO of Device Authority, Darron Antill. “Not only does our partnership with Entrust enable the automated management of security throughout a device’s lifecycle but it also increases efficiencies and reduces overheads, allows for brownfield deployment and integration into any IoT application or platform.”
The two firms have integrated Device Authority’s KeyScaler IoT IAM platform with PKI services from Entrust, extending the existing collaboration for Hardware Security Module (HSM) services, to provide device trust, data trust and automation at IoT scale.
According to both firms, this will enable security operations across device attestation, onboarding, machine identity lifecycle management, certificate signing and cryptographic operations, connecting to FIPs compliant Entrust PKI and HSM services.
“By expanding our partnership with Device Authority, we can provide customers device trust, data trust and automation at IoT scale,” added Jay Schiavo, VP of certificate solutions products and markets at Entrust. “Machine identities and machine identity management is about the endpoints and their supporting infrastructure, and together we make it possible to balance efficiency, automation and security across the digital ecosystem."