Creating a tenant for your organization

SDS Encryption Portal is a cloud service hosted by Stormshield.

Stormshield creates a tenant for each of the organizations using the portal in order to reserve a secure space for users of the same organization. This tenant is configured according to the needs of security administrators and users.

Contact Stormshield to create a tenant for your organization.

The following information is required when creating your tenant:

Identification of the organization

  • Name

  • Business type

  • Size

  • Address

  • Additional address (optional)

  • Country

  • State/Province/Region (optional)

  • Zip code

  • City
Usage mode

Choose the portal usage mode you wish to set up: "Internal PKI" mode or "External PKI" mode. For more information on usage modes, see Selecting SDS Encryption Portal usage mode.

This choice cannot be changed afterwards. If in doubt, consult Stormshield.
Contact information If you choose “External PKI” mode, you must provide Stormshield with contact information when creating the tenant. Your Stormshield sales representative will give you the details of the information to be provided.
Sharing documents with external users

You must also tell Stormshield whether you want your users to be able to share encrypted documents with external users, i.e. those belonging to another tenant or who do not have a tenant.