GO SECURE! FOR VPNS

VeriSign's Go Secure! Services for VPNs are a managed application service that will accelerate the way organizations deploy secure virtual private networking (VPN) applications. VeriSign's Go Secure! family of services enable enterprises to easily and rapidly incorporate digital certificate-based authentication and encryption into their messaging, VPN, and Web-based applications.

Enterprises across the world are opening up their corporate networks to remote employees, branch offices, business partners and customers by implementing VPNs, a transparent, secure, and private connection across the Internet. Expected benefits include decreased IT costs, streamlined business processes, increased employee communication, and improved customer satisfaction.

In order to achieve a secure, scalable and manageable VPN, network administrators require a quick and easy-to-deploy secure network infrastructure based on digital certificate services. VeriSign's Go Secure! for VPNs provides a fully managed digital service to speed the deployment of VPNs. The digital certificates act as electronic credentials to authenticate remote sites, employees, business partners and customers, thereby ensuring that only the intended recipients or network devices have access to transmitted information.

Network Administrator Benefits
VeriSign's Go Secure! services free network administrators from the time-consuming burden of manually generating, distributing, renewing, and publishing digital certificates, and certificate revocation lists (CRLs). Go Secure! seamlessly integrates with a variety of vendors VPN gateways, firewalls, routers and desktop clients to provide automated certificate lifecycle management services.

End User Benefits
Go Secure! also makes it easier for end-users to secure their communications and transactions through automated lifecycle services for certificate acquisition, use, replacement and renewal. Go Secure! also offers automatic publishing of digital certificates and CRLs to an enterprise's user directory allowing the VPN gateway or router to validate a digital certificate presented by a remote site or users attempting to securely connect to the corporate network.

Features
The innovative service for VPNs provides the certificate lifecycle management features necessary to make any VPN scalable and manageable including:

• Automated certificate acquisition: Go Secure! integrates with remote access clients (such as Cisco, IRE, Network Associates, Check Point, and Nortel) and supports standard protocols to automatically request and receive certificate management services from VeriSign.

• Automated authentication: Go Secure! includes the MPKI Passcode Authentication System for automated approval of certificate requests without local programming or database management, saving the customer time and manpower.

• Administrator handbook: Go Secure! includes an easy-to-use implementation guide to assist the administrator with set-up, deployment and on going management of the certificate lifecycle.