Certification Authorities

Certification authorities ensure Web security

Certification authorities are a critical part of securing Internet transactions. As a component of the public key infrastructure (PKI) system, certification authorities serve as a trusted third party and are responsible for verifying the identities of businesses or users wishing to conduct a secure transaction online.

Certification authorities issue digital certificates that vouch for the identities of organizations and provide the public key to be used for encryption purposes. But the trust instilled by digital certificates is only as deep as the trust in the certification authorities that issue them. Businesses seeking to provide customers and users with the most trusted and trouble-free online or e-commerce experience must turn to the most trusted of certification authorities. And as a market-leading certification authority for the last decade, Entrust delivers the products and trusted reputation that organizations require to be competitive.

Entrust and certification authorities

Entrust - one of the world's most trusted certification authorities

As a respected expert in layered security, Entrust secures digital identities and information for enterprises, consumers and governments in more than 60 countries. One of the world's most trusted certification authorities, Entrust delivers the industry's most relied upon PKI via Entrust Authority Security Manager.

Entrust Authority Security Manager serves as a certification authority for the organization, enabling the use of digital signature and receipts, encryption, authentication and permission management services across a broad range of solutions and applications.

With Entrust Authority Security Manager, organizations can:

• Issue certificates for users and devices
• Store the private key of the certification authority
• Maintain an auditable database of users' private-key histories for use in recovering access
• Publish certificate revocation lists to be used to verify whether certificates are still trusted by the certification authorities that issued them

Entrust offers more than unproven certification authorities

Entrust Authority Security Manager provides all the capabilities of traditional certification authorities as well as advanced features for easier administration. The Entrust Authority suite of products includes a number of optional components that can help lower the total cost of ownership, enhance PKI deployment and meet organization-specific security needs. These include:

Entrust Authority Administration Services is a Web-based application that enables delegated and distributed administration with end-to-end security.

Entrust Authority Roaming Server allows users to log in and have secure access to sensitive information without having to carry the PKI digital IDs necessary for a secure connection.

Entrust Authority Enrollment Server for the Web works with Entrust Authority Security Manager to provide public key infrastructure digital certificates to applications and devices.

Visit www.entrust.com to learn more about Entrust and certification authorities, as well as risk-based authentication, market-leading encryption software, innovative solutions for two-factor authentication and more.

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