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New solution brings together full stack of CA-agnostic certificate lifecycle management, PKI services and tightly integrated public trust issuance. The 2022 State of Digital Trust Survey found that almost half of consumers have stopped doing business with a company after losing confidence in its digital trust competency.
Paired with the required DMARC enforcement, VMCs are a critical step in a series of security measures that help strengthen email security, build trust in the inbox and help users associate the brand logo with the company they expect to communicate with. "With BIMI and VMC from DigiCert for DMARC-verified domains, organizations can now demonstrate to their customers a higher level of email security. DigiCert VMCs not only help reduce instances of spam and spoofing customers receive, because of the DMARC requirement, but they also enable organizations to go beyond displaying default email addresses to increase engagement rates and display their brands more prominently."
DigiCert announced the DigiCert Smart Seal, a new dynamic site seal that gives website visitors confidence that their information is secure on the web. The DigiCert Smart Seal is the first seal to visually display the site owner's brand via a verified brand logo.
Manufacturers can now embed certificates on chipsets prior to and during manufacturing, or directly to an edge device, for complete end-to-end device security. IoT Device Manager is built on DigiCert ONE, which enables rapid, automated PKI deployment as a customer-managed, on-premises or cloud solution, or managed by DigiCert for any environment.
DigiCert and Atea jointly announced a partnership to launch the new Atea Managed Certificate Service offering insight into certificate health, usage and endpoint vulnerabilities to ensure the best possible customer experience for secure communication. Delivered by Atea Managed Services and powered by core DigiCert CertCentral technology the new service includes the ability to automatically locate, identify, and track all certificates in use with 24/7 monitoring, management and renewals throughout any network and connected device environment.
Enterprise PKI Manager in DigiCert ONE from DigiCert supports security for today's increasingly remote workforces via certificate automation to authenticate employees and their devices at scale, and encrypt data. Enterprise PKI Manager makes it easy for organizations to manage and use digital certificates to secure all employees, devices and data that connect to the network, and it can be deployed as a customer-managed on-premises or cloud solution, or managed by DigiCert.
DigiCert Automation Gateway launches with integration into DigiCert CertCentral in Q4. This new automation approach is designed to accelerate the adoption of automated certificate issuance, renewal, reissuance and revocation by tackling some of the common concerns with existing offerings. Automation Gateway will provide organizations the confidence to widely deploy automation protocols within their company networks to provide greater agility.
DigiCert has announced a robust set of features and capabilities in DigiCert IoT Device Manager that enable telecommunications providers to deploy 5G network services to cloud environments while maintaining security, compliance and performance. Hosted on the DigiCert ONE platform, IoT Device Manager provides support for strong authentication in dynamic, cloud-native environments, as well as scalability and operational integrity.
Digicert is one of the Big Five commercial CAs, short for certificate authorities - companies that sign and vouch for the digital certificates that put the the S in HTTPS and the padlock in your browser's address bar. The simplest form of web certificate is called self-signed, and anyone can create a self-signed certificate in seconds that claims to represent any web property they like.
A notice emitted by the certificate biz explained that a number of its intermediate certificate authorities had issued EV certs to customers despite not being included in DigiCert's WebTrust audits - which goes against the rules for EV certs. "Although there is no security threat, the EV Guidelines require that we revoke EV certificates signed by the affected ICAs by July 11, 2020 at 12pm MDT.".