Entrust Datacard and Schneider Electric Bring New Innovation to the IoT Security Ecosystem

The new partnership enables customers to choose identity-based
security to support their Internet of Things (IoT) projects

MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#IoT—Entrust
Datacard, a leading provider of trusted identity and secure
transaction technology solutions, today announced it will join Schneider
Electric’s Collaborative
Automation Partner Program (CAPP). The collaboration will allow Schneider
Electric, the leader in digital transformation of energy management
and automation, to offer its industrial customers Entrust Datacard’s ioTrust™
Security Solution to accelerate the adoption of identity based
security solutions within their industrial operations.

The ioTrust Security Solution creates a trusted infrastructure for the
secure flow of M2M data, thereby mitigating risk and enabling greater
visibility in industrial environments. The technology-agnostic software
solution is designed to achieve a high degree of integration and
scalability, and is compatible with industrial protocols and standards,
enabling Schneider Electric to optimize its existing infrastructure and
accelerate IoT deployments.

“To successfully transition to the digital economy, companies must
secure not only their own operations, but also be confident in the
security and authenticity of services and physical components which are
used in the construction of their solutions,” said Josh Jabs, Vice
President, Office of the CTO and General Manager – PKI and IoT, Entrust
Datacard. “This collaboration with Schneider Electric ensures the
convergence of application, devices, and user security requiring a
breadth of tools that all interact seamlessly and securely. The Entrust
Datacard ioTrust Security Solution enables businesses to remain flexible
in choosing devices, backend applications, and data analytics platforms
best suited to their specific environments. The secure-by-design
approach provides robust visibility in real time, with easy to manage
data functions and access control to sanction productive and profitable
decisions.”

CAPP enables Schneider Electric to offer complete business solutions by
integrating innovative technologies developed by its partner ecosystem
into its own offerings. The partnership with Entrust Datacard adds a key
component to Schneider Electric’s cybersecurity solutions that are
delivered through the company’s EcoStruxure™ for Industry architecture.

About the partnership, Dan DesRuisseaux, Director Cybersecurity,
Industry Business, Schneider Electric, commented, “In the past,
industrial users often implemented self-signed certificates or physical
attributes to identify devices, but these are not as secure as
identities issued by a certificate authority.” DesRuisseaux continued,
“In addition, it is essential for critical infrastructure to be
provisioned for local and cloud based identity enrollment and life-cycle
management capabilities in order to deliver authentication and
authorization services that work within the protected network or connect
ecosystems via global distributed and hosted infrastructure.

“Certificate authority solutions require a proven partner, and in this
instance Entrust Datacard’s added expertise in both internally networked
and publicly connected certificate authorities is also of value to our
customers,” says DesRuisseaux. “We are excited to have Entrust Datacard
bring its significant expertise to the industrial market.”

For more information on Entrust Datacard and its ioTrust technology,
visit www.entrustdatacard.com/internet-of-things/.

About Entrust Datacard Corporation
Consumers, citizens and
employees increasingly expect anywhere-anytime experiences — whether
they are making purchases, crossing borders, accessing e-gov services or
logging onto corporate networks. Entrust Datacard offers the trusted
identity and secure transaction technologies that make those experiences
reliable and secure. Solutions range from the physical world of
financial cards, passports and ID cards to the digital realm of
authentication, certificates and secure communications. With more than
2,000 Entrust Datacard colleagues around the world, and a network of
strong global partners, the company serves customers in 150 countries
worldwide. For more information, visit www.entrustdatacard.com.

Contacts

Entrust Datacard
Heather Morris, +1 952-988-1745
Senior
Manager, Global Communications
[email protected]