BOSTON, Mass., July 24, 2019: GlobalSign, a global Certificate Authority (CA) and provider of identity and security solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced that it had launched an IoT developer program designed specifically to assist developers with device identity integrations for strengthening security operations for IoT and Industrial IoT (IIoT) ecosystems.
The company said in a press release that a key component of GlobalSign’s IoT developer program would be the IoT developer portal. The portal “improves integration productivity by providing a centralised location where developers can access all the tools they need to successfully integrate Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)-based device identity as part of their IoT security component.” It will also house a complete set of integration tools including an SDK, client libraries, utilities, API documentation and integration guides.
“GlobalSign’s IoT developer portal is the ideal IoT security information hub where developers can interact with our IoT Solutions Group team to develop and test their proof of concept (PoC) with free X.509 digital test certificates and get the guidance needed to successfully provision device identities. Validating a PoC using live certificates on customer’s own devices makes it easy to scale into production level operations,” said Nisarg Desai, Director of Product Management, IoT, GlobalSign, in a statement.
The IoT developer portal establishes separate and private extranet areas for individual organizations to maintain the privacy of each project until it is completed and ready to be unveiled.
By storing all the resources in one place, offering integration guidance and providing live test certificates, the IoT developer portal enables zero cost PoC for secure device identity integration.
Some of the key features of GlobalSign’s IoT developer program and portal include:
- All of the necessary documents needed to validate a product from PoC through completion: integration guides, testing tools, product specifications, sample code, RESTful APIs specs, and other IoT device identity related information.
- A separate and private extranet so projects can remain in stealth mode.
- A GlobalSign account on request to acquire live certificates to test the security of the IoT device under development.
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