Today, we announced that Entrust has sold our public certificate business to Sectigo, a global leader in digital certificate solutions. The sale allows us to accelerate our focus on developing innovative identity, issuance, and post-quantum-ready cryptographic data security solutions while providing a smooth transition for our public certificate customers to Sectigo.
For Our Public Certificate Customers
Entrust has a long history in the public certificate business, so it was important to us to find the right provider for our customers. Sectigo is a trusted industry leader with a strong track record of compliance and hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide. We’re working closely with them to make our customers’ transition as easy as possible.
Entrust’s Future: Building on our Identity-Centric Leadership
The Entrust mission remains the same: delivering innovative identity, issuance, and cryptographic data security solutions that help our customers protect their operations, fight fraud, and foster trusted interactions. And our focus just got sharper.
Organizations are facing a perfect storm of security challenges, including AI-driven threats, shrinking certificate lifecycles, and rapidly expanding cryptographic estates. For example:
- Fragmented Security Systems: Organizations have different teams using various data sets and tools that don’t communicate with each other, creating critical security gaps. Research indicates 60% of organizations lack awareness of certificates and keys across their digital assets.
- Growing Number of IoT Devices: The number of IoT devices to secure has risen from 31 billion in 2020 to 75 billion, and 175 zettabytes of data require encryption protection.
- Evolving Data Privacy Laws: 162 countries have unique and constantly evolving data privacy laws, making it complex for organizations to stay compliant.
- Cyber Criminals Exploiting Gaps: Attackers are taking advantage of gaps in organizations’ defense posture to walk away with prized assets.
By securing identities, managing cryptographic lifecycles, and ensuring visibility into keys, secrets, and certificates, we are well-positioned to help enterprises achieve post-quantum readiness while also furthering their zero-trust strategies.
The Entrust portfolio includes secure identity and financial card issuance, identity and access management, digital identity verification, digital signing, private certificates, hardware security modules (HSMs), and lifecycle management solutions for certificates, keys, and secrets. We are accelerating efforts to bring these capabilities together into unified, transformative solutions. Look for more announcements from us on this front soon.
We're excited about this next chapter in Entrust's journey. By focusing our efforts on post-quantum ready cryptographic security, we're better positioned than ever to empower our customers to navigate the evolving digital landscape with confidence.
