Entrust Certificate Discovery Solution Makes Finding, Managing Deployed SSL Digital Certificates Easy and Affordable

DALLAS, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital certificates are now cornerstones to business technology. Located on servers, devices, networks and communication platforms, they represent a necessary security technique for encrypting transmissions and securing digital identities in today's enterprise. To assist organizations in gaining a complete perspective of deployed certificates, Entrust, Inc., introduces Entrust Discovery. The easy-to-use solution finds, inventories and manages digital certificates across diverse systems to help prevent outages, data breach and non-compliance.

"As more and more digital certificates are deployed in an enterprise environment, it becomes increasingly complex for IT departments to manage expiration dates, purpose and location," said Entrust President and CEO Bill Conner. "And while organizations may by abiding by established policies, there's no way to enforce regulations without proper visibility of certificate deployments. This can lead to non-compliance and even data breach — leaving an organization vulnerable at many different levels."

Comprehensive Certificate Discovery & Inventory

Available as a managed service or a customer-deployed solution, Entrust Discovery simplifies the certificate discovery and inventory process. This saves the management effort of manually inventorying machines and networks, as well as tracking certificate expiry dates in complicated spreadsheets or tables.

Within an organization's environment, Entrust Discovery quickly finds and inventories certificates that are exposed to a network service. Two separate components — Entrust Discovery Agent and Entrust Discovery Manager — collaborate to help organizations discover the risks caused by rogue or expiring certificates, and then subsequently assists in resolving these issues.

Proving Compliance

Entrust Discovery helps organizations avoid costly compliance ramifications or losses from data breach. Most enterprises implement stringent security policies that adhere to internal, industry or federal regulation. But if an organization doesn't possess the tools or information to prove policy is being followed, non-compliance risks will arise. Entrust Discovery provides an ongoing inventory of encryption assets that help prove that an organization is, in fact, following established policy.

Breach Defense

Entrust Discovery quickly identifies potential problems and provides the user or organization the information needed to correct any issues. The solution helps identify and replace vulnerable certificates to assist the organization in its defense from malicious attacks. And by inventorying encryption assets, enterprises can be sure transmission data is not left unencrypted. This helps prevent the exchange of information from being illegally intercepted without the knowledge of an organization's IT staff.

Deployment Options

Different from competitive offerings, Entrust Discovery provides organizations the option of a cloud-based solution or it can be deployed on a customer-premises basis. Entrust's new solution is scalable to meet the needs of large enterprises, and supports enterprise-level operating systems (e.g., Linux, Microsoft Windows).

Customized Notifications

Entrust Discovery provides multiple expiry notification e-mails to certificate owners to identify expiring certificates. And with built-in backup e-mails to system administrators as the expiry date approaches, an IT staff will have visibility to ensure that certificates are not expiring unexpectedly.

Momentum of Entrust Certificate Services

Entrust Discovery makes its public debut just weeks after the company's new customer-focused campaign, "Let's Talk." This movement accompanied a completely new website — entrust.net — for the company's digital certificate brand, Entrust Certificate Services. And in August, Entrust added publicly trusted secure e-mail certificates, as well as multi-domain SSL capabilities, to its already vast portfolio of digital certificates.

"Certificate discovery technology is a natural extension of Entrust's leadership and growth in certificate-based products, services and solutions," said Conner. "And Entrust Discovery only increases the momentum for Entrust Certificate Services, which has grown by 35 percent each of the last five years."

For more information about Entrust Discovery, call 866-267-9297 or visit entrust.net/discovery.

About Entrust

Entrust provides identity-based security solutions that empower enterprises, consumers, citizens and Web sites in more than 4,000 organizations spanning 60 countries. Entrust's identity-based approach offers the right balance between affordability, expertise and service. For strong authentication, fraud detection, digital certificates, SSL and PKI, call 888-690-2424, e-mail [email protected] or visit www.entrust.com.

Entrust is a registered trademark of Entrust, Inc. in the United States and certain other countries. In Canada, Entrust is a registered trademark of Entrust Limited. All Entrust product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Entrust, Inc. or Entrust Limited. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

SOURCE Entrust, Inc.