Viakoo, the leader in IoT vulnerability remediation announced the release of its Device Certificate Manager (DCM) as a part of the Viakoo Action Platform for securing certificate-based network access control environments.

The DCM solution helps ensure that authorised IoT devices maintain consistent network access by automatically managing the IoT certification process.

Virtual centralised certificate management

Many enterprises secure their networks by manually ensuring each device on the network has a valid 802.1x certificate. However, in today’s much more developed IoT environments, the process of installing and maintaining certificates for thousands of IoT devices from multiple vendors and across distinct geographies is no longer achievable with any efficiency using traditional methods.

The Viakoo Action Platform with DCM delivers centralised, automated, full life cycle management for 802.1x certificates at virtually any scale.

Automating security processes

Deploying certificates manually device by device across geographies and vendor systems is not efficient or secure"

As more and more organisations leverage the power of IoT devices, the IoT attack surface simultaneously expands,” said Bud Broomhead, CEO, and founder of Viakoo.

Deploying certificates manually device by device across geographies and vendor systems is not efficient or secure. We’re at a point where it’s essential to automate security processes to contend with the scale of these environments, to secure the tremendous IoT gains the industry has made so far.”

Viakoo DCM automation

After discovering user IoT devices, the Viakoo Action Platform automatically analyses certificate status across the network, including validating certificate presence, age, and validity.

Viakoo DCM then enables the automated installation of validated certificates where needed, and further, maintains a comprehensive audit log of the certificate history of each device for simplified compliance and audit reporting. Viakoo DCM automation saves time and money while eliminating the frustration of manual certificate management processes to ensure certificate compliance with higher security in minutes.

Scalable platform

The Viakoo Action Platform, an automated, agentless, and scalable solution for enterprise IoT device remediation and repatriation, manages all firmware updates, zero-trust certificate provisioning and management, and password enforcement.

It not only remediates IoT device vulnerabilities but enables them to rejoin the corporate network as full, contributing elements. With the addition of DCM, users will be able to keep the right devices online and working, and unwanted devices off the network altogether.

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