BRONZE SERVICE PROVIDER

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Create your own Trusted e-Community !
One of the challenges facing organisations desiring to deploy a PKI infrastructure is the creation and management of digital certificates, which allow digital signature and ensure confidentiality of electronic messages. How to justify the investment required to implement a private Certification Authority and bay doing so the complexity level generated?

The WISeKey Bronze Service Provider (BSP) is the solution that addresses and solves this dilemma. It fulfils all requirements for locally generating, issuing and managing certificates through WISeKey's secure public key infrastructure.

The BSP is a fully pre-configured workstation for an Affiliate Registration Organisation. It is securely linked to the Ecommerce PKI CA via the Internet acting as a satellite to the global WISeKey Public Key Infrastructure.

This turn-key ready solution using "Best-of breed" technology was designed to provide the most cost effective way to perform high level identification and registration and enables real non-repudiation necessary for digital signatures and high value transactions.

Why should I become a Bronze Service Provider ?

This turn-key ready solution using "Best-of breed" technology was designed to provide the most cost effective way to perform high level identification and registration and enables real non-repudiation necessary for digital signatures and high value transactions.

By delivering digital certificates to end-users, the Affiliated Registration Authority becomes the central point of the trust community. Being a WISeKey Bronze Registration Authority serves organisations in two main areas.

Internally:

• Enabling secure communications between employees
• Enabling secure communications between sales points/subsidiaries and Parent company
• Using employees' digital certificates as a mean to secure, identify and establish, over untrustworthy Public Networks, connexions to local Intranets
• Coupling PKI functionalities to online applications (CRM, ECM) allowing companies to control access to information

Externally:

• Linking securely purchasers to suppliers
• Establishing confidential and secured communications with customers
• Ensuring and reinforcing customers loyalty
• Implementing PKI enabled portals allowing organizations to increase security and to control access to portal's functionalities, to give privileges of services, to enable Web-Forms digital signing and non-repudiation
• Building-up economic models based over pay-per-view or pay-per-transactions online services

WISeKey Bronze Service Provider Functionalities

The WISeKey BSP facilitates deployment and administration of smart card or token-based digital certificates based on face-to-face registration from any place in the world. This will allow customers to apply control on the issuance of certificates at a corporate level.

The Bronze Service Provider provides the Registration Authority with the necessary functionality for certificates lifecycle management, including secure cryptographic key generation, and services to request the issuance, renewal, suspension and revocation of certificates. Besides complete hardware and software the Bronze Service Provider includes all the necessary legal, operational and technical documentation, audit, training of Registration Officers, maintenance and support that is required to become an Affiliate Registration Authority.

Need further information?

For further information about WISeKey Digital certificates or WISeKey Public Key Infrastructure products or services, please send us an email at deployment@wisekey.ch or call us at 00 41 22 929 57 57.

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