WISeKey International Holding announced that it has been appointed by the Wi-SUN Alliance to provide global PKI-based security services for Wi-SUN members, especially around the deployment of its Certificate Management Solution (CMS), INeSTM, dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT). This partnership will foster WISeKey's business opportunities with more than 300 members in 46 countries, within an ecosystem including device vendors, silicon vendors, utilities, cities with more than 100 million endpoints. Wi-SUN FAN supports applications that enhance efficiency, quality of service and resilience including smart utilities, smart cities, smart grids.

Wi-SUN FAN protocol supports X509 digital certificates for device authentication. Digital security certificates are a cornerstone of IoT security. By offering a means for servers to verify the authenticity of the source of every incoming communication, they build trust.

The INeSTM CMS for IoT is a flexible and scalable certificate management platform, used to issue, validate and manage the digital identities of objects in a PKI solution, represented as Digital Certificates, according to the X509 ITU (ISO/IEC 9594-8:2001) standards. INeSTM integrates a Device Management capability and can be used through a web interface and REST API, which enables customers and developers to automate the device and certificate management, integrating it with the manufacturing chain.