Meta Directory products

   Corporations today must provide secure, rapid information access to employees around the globe. Likewise, with the growth of e-business, corporations are also making information systems readily accessible to external users, such as business partners, suppliers and customers. The increasing need to extend information beyond enterprise walls to an ever-growing number of users presents immeasurable identity management and security challenges.

   For example, corporations must consistently authenticate users and implement strict information access controls. This requires a highly scalable identity management infrastructure that can store potentially millions of user profiles. Furthermore, for Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), a solid directory infrastructure is critical to a corporation’s ability to store public keys and provide secure access to information systems.

The CriticalPath Communication Platform
   CriticalPath's Communication Platform provides unparalleled Identity Management Services including the CP Directory Server and CP Meta-Directory server. The CP Directory Server provides a central, unified data repository for user profiles, digital certificates and other critical data. Deployed in some of the most demanding IT infrastructures in the world, this state-of-the-art directory handles large quantities of data, provides lightening-fast response times and offers the industry's highest levels of scalability and performance.

   Proven and trusted by Global 2000 organizations, the CP Directory Server is a market leader in mission-critical environments, including corporate intranets/extranets, online banking services, Internet postal services and government security systems. Furthermore, the CP Directory Server is the leading PKI directory, storing millions of digital certificates and facilitating millions of daily e-business transactions for organizations around the globe.

The CP Directory Server is a core component of CriticalPath’s Communication Platform, operating on the Identity Management Services layer

Standards Support
   Support for global industry standards protects corporate investments in the CP Directory Server, enabling the technology to be leveraged well into the future, and providing a flexible identity management infrastructure. The CP Directory server is interoperable with meta-directory, access management; single sign-on, PKI and account-provisioning applications. The CP™ Directory Server supports standard protocols:

Supported standards and products
        • LDAPv3
        • Directory Services Markup Language (DSML)
        • http
        • X.500

        • interoperable with Entrust, Baltimore™, Verisign, RSA™,            SmartTrust, Valicert, Utimaco systems

        • available on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Sun Solaris 2.7, 2.8 platforms