Siemens: Accelerated Logins and Enhanced Data Security with KOBIL Trust OCSP

Headquartered in Munich, Germany, Siemens is one of the world’s most recognizable multinational conglomerates. It is the largest manufacturing company in Europe, reporting revenues of €86.85 billion in 2019.

Its electric engineering and electronics-related products and services stretch into several sectors, including power generation technologies, medical technologies, railway vehicles, PLM software and more. It also provides active services in financing, project engineering and construction.

Siemens has a growing and global workforce working from offices and off-site locations around the world. It also holds an enormous amount of sensitive and confidential data in its IT systems.

To ensure all necessary security and data protection in its business, Siemens had been using several self-developed trust centers as part of its employees’ login process – but it recognized they could be improved.

To bolster its security and improve the status of the digital certificates issued by its certificate authorities (CAs), Siemens chose to introduce Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP).

Siemens assessed a wide market and several OCSP servers before choosing to introduce KOBIL Trust OCSP into its everyday operations.

Three key elements of KOBIL Trust OCSP – its performance, reliability and flexibility – all impressed Siemens’ senior management. An error-free test operation reinforced KOBIL's position as a provider of world-class security technology.

The server is now fully operational, accelerating secure employee and device logins across the company’s international workforce.