Can Your Organization Authenticate its Devices?

The number of devices generating, accessing and utilizing data today is mind boggling. And as organizations become increasingly dependent on this data, the need to not only secure but authenticate these devices is intensifying. PrimeKey, one of the world’s leading providers of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and digital signature solutions, recently announced the release of Identity Authority Manager, a first-of-its-kind industrial hardware appliance for smart device manufacturers, allowing them to issue trusted certificates at the point of production. Today’s manufacturing plants have gone from isolated factory floors to highly distributed production environments involving multiple stakeholders, including suppliers, partners and customers across regions and country borders. In the case of Industrial Internet of Things IIoT, manufacturers are required to enable production access points to external solutions such as enterprise resource planning systems and analytics software to carry out tasks such as predictive maintenance on machines.