Verizon is launching a new enterprise portal for its Managed Certificate Services platform that offers digital certificate creation and management capabilities for large-scale IoT deployments in the tens of millions.
The number of Internet-connected devices, such as vehicles, smart meters and home monitoring systems, is predicted to reach in the billions by the year 2020.
Verizon's Managed Certificate Services (MCS) platform is designed to authenticate objects and machines (much like two-factor authentication of people and machines), verifying object and machine 'identities' for the trusted exchange of information - and secure data transmitted between these connections.
Verizon's new bulk certificate portal provides increased ease of commerce without large capital investment for enterprises, such as manufacturers and media companies with large IoT and/or traditional machine-to-machine (M2M) implementations. Featuring usage-based pricing, the new portal is aimed at helping organisations control management costs for securing the Internet of Things.
"With the massive growth of The Internet of Things and the use of connectivity to make devices smarter, businesses require a simple, scalable and effective way to manage identity and data integrity," said Mike Denning, vice president of Global Security for Verizon Enterprise Solutions.
"Building on our digital certificate technology and managed security services expertise, Verizon's Managed Certificate Services provides the foundation for helping to protect the Internet of Things from cyberthreats."