User's Guide: Sign Up for Fortanix Data Security Manager SaaS

1.0 Fortanix Data Security Manager SaaS Free Trial

This article describes how to sign up for a free trial and get started with Fortanix-Data-Security-Manager (DSM) Software as a Service (SaaS).

Fortanix DSM SaaS is the world's first cloud service secured with Intel® SGX. With Fortanix DSM SaaS, you can securely generate, store, and use cryptographic keys and certificates, as well as other secrets such as passwords, API keys, tokens, or any blob of data. Your business-critical applications and containers can integrate with Fortanix DSM SaaS using legacy cryptographic interfaces or using the native Fortanix DSM SaaS RESTful interface.

Fortanix DSM SaaS uses built-in cryptography in Intel Xeon® CPUs to help protect the customer's keys and data from all external agents, reducing the system complexity greatly by removing reliance on characteristics of the physical boxes. Intel SGX enclaves prevent access to customer's keys or data by Fortanix or any other cloud service provider.

Fortanix offers a free trial for Fortanix DSM SaaS. Set up a free trial to access the Fortanix DSM portal and secure your key management and cryptography services on a cloud-neutral platform.

2.0 Sign Up For A Free Trial

Perform the following steps to sign up for a free trial on Fortanix DSM SaaS application:

1. Go to the Fortanix website using URL: https://www.fortanix.com.

2. Click Try Us, and on the Experience the Power of Fortanix page, click START FREE 30-DAY TRIAL on the Data Security Manager Enterprise Tier tile.

   • Enterprise Tier: This is ideal for businesses of any size looking to scale with a full set of industry-leading data security capabilities. Click START 30-DAY FREE TRIAL to sign up for the Enterprise Tier.

   NOTE

   The Enterprise tier comes with a 30-day free trial.

   

3. In the SIGN UP FOR ENTERPRISE TIER form, fill the required user information:

   1. First name and Last name

   2. Email: Enter your work email.

   3. Job title

   4. Phone number

   5. Country

   6. Region: where you want to use DSM SaaS.

   7. Select the service: Select the option 30-day Free Trial (All Services).

   8. You can optionally select the check boxes:

      • Schedule a demo – See Fortanix DSM SaaS in action!

      • I agree to receive other communications from Fortanix.

4. Click GET STARTED. You will now be taken to the Fortanix DSM SaaS signup page.

5. On the Sign up page, the Business Email address, First name, and Last name fields will be automatically filled based on the details you provided in the Get started/Start your 30-day free trial form.

6. Create a new password and retype the same.

7. Complete the reCAPTCHA verification by checking the I'm not a robot check box.

8. Click SIGN UP to finalize your registration and complete the sign-up process.

   

3.0 Verifying the Email Address

This section describes the steps to verify your email address after signing up. Perform the following steps:

1. After you click SIGN UP, an email will be sent to your registered email address.

2. Go to your mail account and click the link in the verification email to confirm your address and activate your account.

   

In case you have not received the email, then click the RESEND VERIFICATION EMAIL link.

3.1 Log in to Fortanix DSM SaaS

After you sign up and verify your email address, you will get an email about your successful registration.

Perform the following steps to log in to the Fortanix DSM:

1. Go to https://amer.smartkey.io/ and log in using your new credentials.

2. Enter your Email ID and click LOG IN WITHOUT SSO. On the next screen, enter your Password and click LOG IN.

   

3. Once logged in, you can create a new account or accept an invitation to join another account. After entering an account, you can view and manage groups, users, applications, and security objects belonging to the account. For more details on how to get started with Fortanix DSM SaaS, refer to the Getting Started Guide.

   

3.2 Resetting Your Forgotten Password

If you have forgotten your password, perform the following steps to reset your password:

1. Go to the Fortanix DSM Login page.

2. Enter your email ID.

3. Click LOG IN WITHOUT SSO to log in with a password.

4. Click the Forgot your password? link below the password field.

5. On the Forgot Password page, enter your email ID and select the I'm not a robot check box to complete the reCAPTCHA verification.

   

6. Click RESET PASSWORD to initiate password reset. A password reset email will be sent to the entered email ID.

7. Open the email and click on the reset password link.

8. On the Reset Password page, create a new password and re-enter it to confirm.

9. Click SAVE PASSWORD to complete the process.

3.3 Updating the Email Address

After you log in to Fortanix DSM SaaS and enter your account, you can also update your existing email address if required.

Perform the following steps to update the email address:

1. Navigate to your Username → My profile.

   

2. Click the Edit icon and type the new email ID.

   NOTE

   When you change your email address, the system automatically removes all pending account invitations. You must be reinvited using your new email address.

   

3. Click SAVE to confirm the new email ID. You will get a verification email to confirm the new email ID.

4. Go to your mail account and click the link in the verification email to confirm your updated email address and activate your account.

The email ID is updated successfully.

4.0 Subscription Renewal

When your 30-day free trial for Fortanix DSM SaaS expires, you can renew the subscription from the Fortanix DSM SaaS UI. 

Perform the following steps:

1. In the Fortanix DSM UI, navigate to Settings → SUBSCRIPTION tab.

   

2. On the Current subscription plan page, click CHANGE to renew the subscription.

   

3. In the Plan Change Request dialog box, click SEND REQUEST to submit the renewal request.

4. After submission, the Fortanix Customer Service team will be informed about the subscription change request. Changes to the subscription will be reflected on the Fortanix DSM SaaS System Administrator portal.
   You can alternatively contact the Fortanix Customer Service team at [email protected] for follow-up.