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Entrust Certificate Management Service - Premium edition FAQ

  1. What is included in the Premium Edition?
  2. What is the difference between the Premium Edition and the Enhanced Edition?
  3. How does the Certificate Manager perform certificate lifecycle management?
  4. What Web servers does Entrust Certificate Manager support?
  5. What communication protocols does Entrust Certificate Management Service support?
  6. How does the Entrust Certificate Manager communicate with Entrust? Certificate Services?
  1. What is included in the Premium Edition? (top)

    The Premium Edition includes all the offerings of the Enhanced Edition plus certificate lifecycle management provided by the Entrust? Certificate Manager. The Certificate Manager software included with the Premium Edition of the service automates the installation and renewal of SSL Web server certificates to provide customers managing large pools of SSL certificates with potential savings.

  2. What is the difference between the Premium Edition and the Enhanced Edition? (top)

    The Enhanced Edition provides powerful certificate administration tools that enable administrators to manage large SSL Web server certificate deployments. As customers manage more certificates, the account administration capability of the service makes it simple to order and deploy SSL Web server certificates. Customers can benefit from certificate pooling and a reusable inventory. Administrative delegation can help to reduce certificate management costs, simplify deployment, and integrate SSL Web server certificate management into the business practices and procedures of an organization.

    The Premium Edition of the service provides both the powerful certificate administration tools in the Enhanced Edition, plus automated certificate lifecycle management that is provided in the Entrust Certificate Manager. The combination of administration tools plus automated SSL Web server certificate management can help organizations with even larger SSL deployments to simplify management and save costs.

  3. How does the Certificate Manager perform certificate lifecycle management? (top)

    Entrust Certificate Management Service helps address the cost and complexity of enterprise-scale SSL Web server certificate deployments by automating the certificate request, installation and renewal lifecycle operations. As part of the Certificate Management Service, Entrust provides an application within the customer's network that interfaces to web servers without needing to install agents on those servers. The application called the Entrust Certificate Manager, communicates automatically with the Entrust Certificate Services certification authority and the managed web servers within a customer's network to have SSL Web server certificates issued and installed on those web servers. The result can be a significant reduction in the effort to manage the lifecycle of SSL Web server certificates.

  4. What Web servers does Entrust Certificate Manager support? (top)

    The Entrust Certificate Manager software runs on the Windows 2003 Server — Standard Edition platform and administrative functions can be accessed by authenticated administrators from any Microsoft Internet Explorer browser above release 5.5.

    The Entrust Certificate Manager supports the following Web Servers: Apache 2.0 (Linux), Microsoft IIS 5.x, iPlanet 4.x (Windows® and Solaris® operating systems), Sun ONE 6.x (Windows and Solaris operating systems) and more.

  5. What communication protocols does Entrust Certificate Management Service support? (top)

    Entrust Certificate Management Service works with the most popular industry standard communication protocols SSH and Telnet.

  6. How does the Entrust Certificate Manager communicate with Entrust Certificate Services? (top)

    The Entrust Certificate Manager communicates with Entrust Certificate Services through a secure Web services environment using WSDL, which is comprised of XML and SOAP standards. When the Certificate Manager requests a certificate, it will call the Certificate Administrator located on the Entrust Extranet. This is all accomplished securely by using Entrust Web services.

Entrust EV SSL Certificates

Entrust SSL certificates provide encryption-based security of sensitive information for websites and are the solution of choice for IT administrators charged with protecting their customer's transactions. Entrust SSL products are designed to meet and exceed even the most rigorous enterprise security standards, including guidelines stipulating scalability, manageability, and cost effectiveness while providing robust 256k-bit end-to-end encryption of customer interactions.

Entrust offers a range of SSL related products, including EV SSL certificates, which effortlessly integrate into an organization's existing e-commerce platform to provide a superior standard of web-based transactional security. Extended Validation SSL Certificates denote the integrity of a website by requiring Entrust, the SSL certificate provider, to verify the identity and domain of the site owner prior to issuing an SSL secure server certificate. This additional layer of validation is signaled by a green address bar in major browsers, use of the https SSL protocol, and a badge from Entrust indicating the advanced level of security - all resulting in a higher level of consumer trust.

For over a decade, Entrust has been a leading provider of e-business solutions that secure online communications and transactions for enterprises.