Announcing the Sale of Entrust's Public Certificates Business to Sectigo

Entrust announced the sale of its public certificates business to Sectigo. The sale allows Entrust to accelerate its focus on developing innovative identity, issuance, and quantum ready cryptographic data security solutions, while providing a smooth transition for its public certificate offerings to Sectigo.

Our highest priority is to provide our customers and partners with a smooth transition plan to Sectigo. They are a respected leader in public certificates, with a global presence and a strong commitment to compliance and innovation. Sectigo was founded in 1998 and serves hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide.

By selling our public certificates business to Sectigo, we are providing customers and partners with a transition path to a world-class partner. Sectigo is a respected leader in public certificates, with a global presence and a strong commitment to compliance and innovation. They were founded in 1998 and serve hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide.

Right now, it’s business as usual for customers and partners. Our integration to support Sectigo TLS certificates from the ECS portal is complete, so customers can directly request certificates issued by Sectigo from ECS. Entrust will continue to serve our public certificate customers through their certificate lifecycles or facilitate smooth transitions to the Sectigo platform. Our focus is on making this experience as simple as possible. More information is available in our TLS Certificate Information Center.

You can continue using Entrust Certificate Services (ECS). Migration options will be made available to you within the next 90 days.

The sale of the Entrust public certificates business has been completed and is effective immediately. Terms of the transaction are not being disclosed. Entrust will continue to serve our public certificate customers through their certificate lifecycles or facilitate smooth transitions to the Sectigo platform.

The sale involves Entrust publicly trusted and qualified certificate offerings, including publicly trusted TLS, S/MIME, VMC, Code Signing, and Document Signing certificates.

Entrust will continue to develop and support world-class PKI solutions including private and managed PKI, certificate lifecycle management, and digital signing solutions.

We take pride in being leaders in identity-centric security solutions that help our customers protect their operations and foster trusted interactions. Our portfolio includes AI-driven solutions including secure identity and financial issuance, identity and access management, digital identity verification, digital signing, private certificates, hardware security modules (HSMs), and lifecycle management for certificates, keys, and secrets.

This portfolio makes Entrust well positioned to meet the needs of IT organizations with next-generation cryptographic security solutions.

Sectigo is a respected leader in public certificates, with a global presence and a strong commitment to compliance and innovation. Sectigo was founded in 1998 and serves several hundred thousand customers and more than 2,700 partners worldwide.

We can help customers today to discover and manage encryption keys, secrets, and certificates, implement PKI built on an HSM as a root of trust, and begin the transition to post-quantum cryptography. Watch for more innovation in these areas in the coming months.

Sectigo will reach out to public certificate customers via email and is also setting up weekly webinars for customers and partners. You can find integration FAQs and instructions on their website at sectigo.com/united-in-trust.

Yes, you can access the training for ECS release 14.1.1 from the ECS portal under “Help -> Trainings” menu, which provides instructions on how you can configure Sectigo as the issuing CA.

Yes, your existing SSL.com certificates will remain valid for their entire lifecycle. Sectigo is committed to ensuring uninterrupted service throughout this transition. 

You don’t need to revalidate your domain(s) for currently active certificates validated by Entrust. 

You can continue to purchase more certificates directly through ECS.

When existing certificates are renewed or new certificates are issued, they will go through a standard validation process, and that will require revalidating your domain(s). 

No, Sectigo will honor your existing contract terms with Entrust.

You will continue to work with your existing Entrust customer success team and will also gain access to a dedicated account management team at Sectigo.  

Entrust will continue to provide support for ECS until further notice. Migration plans will be discussed with you over the next 90 days.