Beame.io chooses GlobalSign's high-scale digital certificate services to turn any machine with a web browser into a secure server

BOSTON, Nov. 29, 2016

Beame.io is using GlobalSign's short-lived Organization Validated (OV) digital certificates to enable users to protect their data and privacy with a connection established through the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. The digital certificate remain valid for as long as the user needs a secure session, which could range from a span of minutes to months. A key benefit of short-lived certificates is that the fast expiration makes using a compromised certificate for an attack less likely.

"Most communication lacks encryption. The solution is simple: to give an identity to everything. Beame.io and GlobalSign are returning the control of identifying credentials to the hands of the user," says Beame.io's CEO, Zeev Glozman.

Beame.io makes it possible to assign hostnames to mobile devices and issue them matching short-lived GlobalSign SSL certificates. This provides secure, time-limited, global access to credentials or information. Beame.io allows for the creation and management of a private, secure application network on-demand, preventing unauthorized connections at the network layer. Beame.io provides proof of possession of a unique cryptographic key used together with multi-factor authentication, allowing application and device developers to easily implement asymmetric credentialing for end-to-end encryption anywhere.

Using GlobalSign's high volume SSL and PKI certificate service, Beame.io is able to issue certificates without any user involvement. From the start, GlobalSign expects to issue millions of certificates for Beame.io's customers.

From an end-user's perspective, the Beame.io framework powers a range of uses in the boardroom, living room, doctor's office, and beyond. Identity can be associated with internet-connected devices in the home for trustworthy, authenticated information transfer such as video feeds from a baby monitor or a security camera. Next, patient identity can be associated with mobile phones for seamless authentication at the doctor's office. Additionally, patients will be able to share their medical files with their doctors from their mobile devices rather than being given temporary access to their files by their healthcare providers. Finally, in the enterprise, mobile phones can carry their owner's identity and replace passwords, serving as a second or higher level of authentication. The mobile phone can identify a user to Single Sign On and can log him or her into the Active Directory. That's because with Beame.io technology, the personal, mobile, or IoT device can act as a fully functional, publicly accessible server with a globally trusted GlobalSign SSL certificate.