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Corporate PKI

Corporate PKI - How it works
Corporate PKI - How it works

Nexus Smart ID Corporate PKI is a flexible and scalable certificate authority (CA) software, which enables you to issue and manage electronic identities (eIDs) for your enterprise need. Issue certificates for your employees (smart cards, mobile IDs, encryption, S/MIME etc) and to your devices (servers, routers, Wifi Aps, Phones or Firewalls).

The Corporate PKI module can be used stand-alone or as an add-on to Digital ID to replace Microsoft ADCS or any other CA or PKI platform. 

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Features

Corporate PKI

Use cases


Certificates for enterprise use 
Smart cards, P#12, devices, servers, mobile app

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Microsoft ADCS replacement (WinEP)

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Basic server certificate management

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Nexus OCSP Responder

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Standard certificate enrollment protocols, such as
ACME, SCEP, CMP, CMC, EST, see Certificate Manager interfaces and APIs

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Tenants for internal use

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Deliverables


Setup of one production system and one non-production system for test, training, and support.
Each system contains the following software.

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Installation and configuration of the certificate authority platform Smart ID Certificate Manager

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Nexus OCSP Responder 

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Nexus Personal Desktop Client

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Integrations


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For an overview of the complete Smart ID Workforce offering, see Smart ID Workforce modules overview


Common Criteria certified PKI platform

Smart ID Certificate Manager (CM) and Nexus OCSP Responder have been certified in compliance with Common Criteria EAL4+.

For more information, see Common Criteria certification