CertiPath Solutions Guide Executive Summary

Identity and Access Management (I&AM) are significant challenges facing medium to large size organizations.  These challenges are further complicated in a multi-enterprise environment where external parties are relying on computer based identities for enabling supply chain or extranet applications.  Regulatory drivers addressing this space are and a series of increasingly stringent access requirements coming from the Defense Agencies at Governments worldwide.  In the US, the government wide regulation HSPD-12 has played a major role in promoting high assurance identities.

One of the most important foundational pieces to any I&AM strategy is to establish a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).  In smaller organizations, this may be best accomplished through working with a managed service provider but for medium to large organizations, owning the Certificate Authority (CA) is almost always both economically and strategically advantageous.

The choice of the architecture will depend on a number of factors such as differing Certificate Policies (CPs), organizational structure and ownership, differing assurance levels, regulatory requirements and organization specific trust  relationships. The Solution Guide covers the options and section criteria that can dictate the choice of PKI architecture.

In order for an enterprise to extend its I&AM infrastructure to the broader community of partners, customers and suppliers, it is imperative to work with a community trust fabric, such as CertiPath. The Solutions Guide provides a roadmap of how to participate in such a trust fabric and architecture decision one needs to make to implement a complete I&AM solution for use internally as well as with external vendor, customers and partners.

Table of Contents

• Business Drivers for PKI
• Logical Security
• Physical Security
• Extending the trust fabric
• What is required to setup CA
• In-house, Out-Source or Co-Source
• Product selection
• Architecture
   
• Join CertiPath Trust Fabric
• Which service is right for me?
• Standard Services
• Premium Services
• Additional Notes Common to Both Services
   
• Project timeline
• Pricing Tiers
• Consultants

To request a copy of the CertiPath Solution Guide, please send an email to Kaus Phaltankar at  Kaus@certipath.com and include your company’s name, your role in the organization and whether you have an immediate need or are just performing some research on high assurance identity management.