Wi-SUN
Alliance
Selects WISeKey PKI
Services to
Deliver Digital Certificates to
Consortium
Members
Geneva - May 23, 2022 - WISeKey International
Holding ("WISeKey", SIX: WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY), a leading security
Certificate Authority and provider of identity solutions, today
announced that it has been appointed by the Wi-SUN Alliance to
provide global PKI-based security services for Wi-SUN members,
especially around the deployment of its Certificate Management
Solution (CMS), INeSTM, dedicated to the Internet of Things
(IoT).
This partnership will foster WISeKey’s business
opportunities with more than 300 members in 46 countries, within an
ecosystem including device vendors, silicon vendors, utilities,
cities with more than 100 million endpoints.
Wi-SUN FAN supports applications that enhance
efficiency, quality of service and resilience including smart
utilities, smart cities, smart grids. Wi-SUN FAN protocol supports
X509 digital certificates for device authentication. Digital
security certificates are a cornerstone of IoT security. By
offering a means for servers to verify the authenticity of the
source of every incoming communication, they build trust.
Public key cryptography and digital certificates
are used to implement strong authentication, data encryption and
digital signatures. The INeSTM CMS for IoT is a flexible and
scalable certificate management platform, used to issue, validate
and manage the digital identities of objects in a PKI solution,
represented as Digital Certificates, according to the X509 ITU
(ISO/IEC 9594-8:2001) standards.
INeSTM integrates a Device Management capability
and can be used through a web interface and REST API, which enables
customers and developers to automate the device and certificate
management, integrating it with the manufacturing chain.
“We are excited that WISeKey’s will provide its
expertise to manage the implementation of Wi-SUN PKI security for
our members,” said Phil Beecher, President and CE0, Wi-SUN
Alliance. “WISeKey is an expert at designing, governing and
managing large PKI ecosystems to ensure device identity supporting
millions of connected devices. The WISeKey team continues to work
closely with us to shape the efficient roll out of the Wi-SUN FAN
Networks.”
“A strong and protected (IoT) device identity,
is a foundation building block for secure IoT solutions,” commented
Gweltas Radenac, Director of WISeKey IoT Business Line. “Our
Security solutions allow Wi-SUN members and partners to effectively
implement and leverage hardware-anchored digital device identities
at scale.”
WISeKey’s secure semiconductors are certified
for Evaluation Assurance Level + (EAL4+) according to the
international standard Common Criteria for Information Technology
Security Evaluation (CC).
About WISeKeyWISeKey (NASDAQ:
WKEY; SIX Swiss Exchange: WIHN) is a leading global cybersecurity
company currently deploying large scale digital identity ecosystems
for people and objects using Blockchain, AI and IoT respecting the
Human as the Fulcrum of the Internet. WISeKey technology is Trusted
by the OISTE Swiss based cryptographic Root of Trust (“RoT”) and
provides secure authentication and identification, in both physical
and virtual environments, for the Internet of Things. The WISeKey
RoT serves as a common trust anchor to ensure the integrity of
online transactions among objects and between objects and
people.
WISeKey microcontrollers secure the pervasive
computing shaping today’s Internet of Everything. WISeKey IoT has
an install base of over 1.6 billion microchips in virtually all IoT
sectors (connected cars, smart cities, drones, agricultural
sensors, anti-counterfeiting, smart lighting, servers, computers,
mobile phones, crypto tokens etc.). WISeKey Semi-conductor’s
division holds more than 50 families of patents and is one of the
only 6 semiconductors companies in the world that can develop
certified secure micro controllers to protect the exponentially
growing number of digital interactions between people, applications
and objects.
WISeKey products are compliant with the most
demanding certification bodies in the world: Common Criteria and
FIPS (NIST), and its chips are designed, tested and produced using
the highest standards of security, reliability and quality.
Operations are run under certified environment (ISO 27001). For
more information, visit www.wisekey.com.
About Wi-SUN
Alliance Wi-SUN Alliance is a global non-profit
member-based association made up of industry leading companies. Its
mission is to drive the global proliferation of interoperable
wireless solutions for use in smart cities, smart grids and other
Internet of Things (IoT) applications using open global
standards from organizations, such as IEEE, IETF, TIA, TTC and
ETSI. With 300 members worldwide, membership of the Wi-SUN Alliance
is open to all industry stakeholders and includes silicon vendors,
product vendors, services providers, utilities, universities,
enterprises and municipalities and local government organisations.
For more information, visit: www.wi-sun.org. Wi-SUN
Alliance and the Wi-SUN Alliance logo are trademarks of the Wi-SUN
Alliance. Press contacts:
WISeKey
International Holding LtdCompany Contact: Carlos
MoreiraChairman & CEOTel: +41 22 594
3000info@wisekey.com |
WISeKey IoT Japan
K.K.Katsu MiyahataAPAC Sales DirectorTel:
+81-80-6663-4933kmiyahata@wisekey.com |
WISeKey Investor
Relations (US)Contact: Lena CatiThe Equity Group
Inc.Tel: +1 212 836-9611lcati@equityny.com |
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