Ohio-based PKI-as-a-service firm Keyfactor has completed its previously reported merger with Swedish security software company PrimeKey under the Keyfactor brand.

Keyfactor, a pioneer in machine identity management, provides certificate lifecycle automation and crypto-agility. PrimeKey’s EJBCA software provides flexible private PKI (public key infrastructure) and certificate authority (CA) supporting devops, IoT, manufacturing and enterprise use cases.

Combined, both created the industry’s first end-to-end machine identity management platform with flexible and scalable certificate issuance and automated deployment of machine identities across complex enterprise and emerging IoT and OT use cases.

In 2020, Keyfactor and PrimeKey announced a technology integration partnership. The integration combined Keyfactor’s Certificate Automation with PrimeKey’s EJBCA Enterprise product, offering Keyfactor and PrimeKey customers end-to-end visibility and automation to all private and publicly issued certificates via a single platform.

“Over the past 18 months, we’ve built strong relationships with the PrimeKey leadership team, which ultimately led us to this market-defining merger,” said Jordan Rackie, CEO at Keyfactor. “Keyfactor and PrimeKey share a history rooted in cryptography and a relentless commitment to customer service and satisfaction. Through our growing partnership, we imagined a world where we could offer even more value to our customers through continued market growth, product expansion and PKI expertise. This merger truly brings machine identity management to the forefront and to the enterprise.”

Keyfactor’s crypto-agility platform helps security teams seamlessly orchestrate every key and certificate across their entire enterprise. The company lets its customers apply cryptography in the right way from modern, multi-cloud enterprises to complex IoT supply chains.

With decades of cyber-security experience, Keyfactor is used by more than 500 enterprises across the globe.

PrimeKey has developed several products, including EJBCA Enterprise, SignServer Enterprise, PKI Appliance, PrimeKey SEE and Identity Authority Manager.

As a pioneer in open-source security software, PrimeKey provides global businesses and organisations with the ability to implement vital security, such as e-ID, e-passports, authentication, digital signatures, unified digital identities and validation. PrimeKey products are Common Criteria and FIPS-certified, the company’s internal processes are ISO 9001, 14001 and 27001 certified, and it has numerous Webtrust/Etsi and eIDAS-audited customers.

PrimeKey has offices in Stockholm, Sweden; Aachen, Germany; San Mateo, USA; and Melbourne, Australia.