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This week we’ve seen the latest chapter in the Microsoft/Apple love/hate relationship… and it would seem that love is conquering all… at least for the time being. As CRN reports, Apple is reaching out to Microsoft partners that can help integrate iPhones and iPads into enterprise environments.
iOS 5, Apple’s new operating system for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch, will be released “soon” – Apple officially says “this Fall”, and many prognosticators are pointing to sometime in October. While the new release has hundreds of new features, the feature that’s of particular interest to digital identity practitioners such as CSS is one that’s received very little press to date.
CSS launches solution for managing PKI certificates in a Microsoft environment Wednesday, May 18, 2011 Certified Security Solution announced the immediate availability of the Certificate Reporting Tool, a new software solution that supports both certificate and certificate revocation list management in a Microsoft environment. Supporting all Microsoft Certificate Authority versions …
Studies show that 3 out of 4 organizations have experienced system downtime in the past 12 months due to unforeseen expired certificates.
Most could have – and should have – been prevented had an efficient way to manage certificates been available.
CSS recently announced the release of Certificate Reporting Tool (CRT) v2.0. CRT was created at the request of our customers, who were having difficulty managing impending certificates and CRLs in their own environments.
Part 2 of Apple’s iOS Devices and Certificate Lifecycle Planning blog.
CSS created the Certificate Reporting Tool (CRT) a few years ago, to help organizations get a better handle on certificate expiration. Below are examples of two different architectures that leverage CRT to help with certificate issuance and renewal for iOS-based certificates.
iOS devices such as iPads and iPhones are quickly becoming a part of the enterprise IT landscape, in a trend sometimes referred to as “the consumerization of IT.” From a security practitioner’s standpoint, there are a number of factors here that are cause for concern, including the prospect of unmanaged or “under-managed” devices accessing corporate data, the variety of devices and form factors involved, and the rapid pace of adoption, to name a few.
Enterprise Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and digital certificates can help. iPhones and iPads are natively capable of using digital certificates for authentication to corporate networks and data in a variety of ways:
Corporate wireless networks (802.1X and EAP-TLS)
VPN gateways via the built-in Cisco client
Microsoft ActiveSync
Mutually-authenticated SSL web sites via the Safari browser
Certified Security Solutions, Inc. (CSS), a leading provider of information security consulting services, unveils the release of a new software offering called the Certificate Reporting Tool (CRT). CRT allows organizations to effectively track the expiration of critical certificates and certificate revocation lists (CRLs) in a Microsoft Certificate Services environment. CSS …
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