14 DAY TRIAL // The new Symantec Certificate Intelligence Center is an add-on option for VeriSign MPKI for SSL and it's designed to aid companies in discovering and managing SSL Certificates across their entire network, regardless of the certificate authority that issued them.
The cloud-based service was created by Symantec after the recent events involving rogue certificates and certain CAs. Customers began to fear that some of the fake certificates might affect their businesses because they couldn't keep track of the ones used inside their offices.
As we've recently witnessed with GlobalSign, an SSL certificate issue can disrupt business continuity and efficiency, costing the company a whole lot of time and with it large amounts of money.
The Certificate Intelligence Center was built by Symantec's Business Authentication Group in close collaboration with their most important clients and it will enable administrators to easily observe and manage anything that has to do with online certification, including the quick detection of illegal authentication documents.
Other features include the ability to configure user roles and privileges, which means that not only administrators can have access to the application, but also others who might need it.
Inventories will be easy to make and full reports will be available, so expiration dates will no longer represent a hard-to-detect issue.
Automated alerts are also included, meaning that the administration of large networks will not be as difficult as before, the flexible scan parameters giving whole new opportunities to those in charge. And because the whole service is cloud-based, the infrastructure will not have to suffer major modifications for the new add-on to be quickly and properly implemented.
We've all seen the damage caused by potentially illegally issued certificates and this product proves that Symantec is not falling behind on the market tendencies. Organizations will have to keep better track of their networks and, because they always complain about the lack of resources, such utilities can represent a great alternative.