An extranet lets your organisation share information with customers, suppliers and trading partners using web-based applications. Information such as new product data, stock availability, order status and project schedules can be instantly and easily accessed on demand. This can significantly improve business relationships, and with an interactive component, can bring even greater benefits.

But what if unauthorised users gain access to your commercially sensitive data?

To protect your extranet, access control is crucial. Traditional passwords and PINs can be costly and inefficient. They take valuable administration time, both to set up and keep up to date. They can also be misused and difficult to remember.

A far more efficient and cost-effective solution is a Digital Certificate. It provides automatic proof of identity when a user tries to access your extranet. Without a recognised Digital Certificate, access is denied. What's more, because each user is individually recognised, your extranet can offer different body text or services to different people.

Our Managed PKI solution provides a comprehensive, managed service which allows your company to easily issue hundreds or thousands of Digital Certificates to your end-user population. To make securing access to extranets even easier we also provide an integration package called Trusted Web Applications which allows your applications to fully exploit the advantages of using Digital Certificates.

A VeriSign Server Certificate safely identifies your web-site to your users and secures communications over your extranet. Secure Server is suited to most sectors and industries. Global Server is ideally suited for banks, insurance companies, financial service providers and health care organisations and those applications where more sensitive data demands a higher level of security.

Read our Free White Paper "Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) - selecting the right approach to securing e-mail, extranets, and intranets".