Instead, anonymous digital certificates are used to mutually authenticate the user and the organization. Because the Internet is used, organizations don't have to provide and administer expensive dial-up facilities. The solution utilizes strong, certificate-based mutual authentication to give organizations detailed access control over their Web sites and electronic communications. The administrator-controlled trust model ensures that the organization determines which visitors to trust and which locations on the company Web site or intranet each user can visit. This transparent security management provides that the end user is hidden from complicated security decisions such as checking certificate revocation, dealing with the expiry of certificates, or determining which Web server certificates to trust.
Users also benefit from a single login that allows single sign-on to multiple Web servers.
In either case, the customer supplier relationship can be protected. Royal Mail is delighted to be in the forefront of the application of this technology. As a result, Scotiabank is now recognized as one of the largest issuers of digital certificates on the Internet. This is particularly useful for applications such as electronic banking and brokerage over the Internet where customer information must be kept strictly confidential. Volume Discount pricing is available.