As part of this strategy, they are looking to streamline the delivery of these services to their employees, customers, partners, and suppliers while protecting the privacy of this personalized information on a public network.
Digital certificates provide enhanced security for protecting usernames and passwords.
Use of certificates for authentication, web-based form signing, and other security methods can also help to reduce administrative costs by providing a single security infrastructure that can be broadly deployed on both extranets and intranets to protect information and assets from unauthorized access. Netscape Certificate Management System is a highly scalable certificate-based security solution that enables protection of sensitive data and allows companies to expand the delivery of personalized services on the Internet. Highly scalability supports millions of users . Certificate Management System can be deployed for e-commerce and extranet web applications scaling to millions of users. It supports standard Internet browsers, including Netscape Communicator and Microsoft Internet Explorer, without requiring additional client or server software.