Entrust
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Entrust Inc. is a $100 million privately-owned software company with 350 employees. It provides identity-based security software and services in the areas of public key infrastructure
(PKI), multifactor authentication, Secure Socket Layer certificates, fraud detection, digital certificates and mobile authentication. Headquartered in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, the company’s largest office is near Ottawa
, Ontario, Canada. It also has offices in London
, Tokyo
, Washington, D.C.
and other cities internationally.
Entrust reports having customers at public and private organizations in 60 countries, with 125 patents either granted or pending in the areas of authentication, physical/logical access, certificates, e-content delivery and citizen identities.
Entrust lists customers including the U.S. Departments of Energy, Homeland Security, State, Treasury and Labor; Citibank
; Expedia.com; the FBI; Credit Suisse
; SWIFT
; the Government of the United Kingdom; Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Government; the United Arab Emirates
; the Danish National Police; the Royal Bank of Scotland
; NASA
; the Federal Reserve Bank
; Chase Manhattan Bank
; the State of Illinois; Hotwire.com
; the Quebec
Ministry of Justice; and other government entities and business enterprises.
Previously a publicly-traded company, in July 2009 Entrust was acquired by Thoma Bravo
, a U.S.-based private equity firm, for $124 million.
, an information technology research and advisory firm headquartered in Stamford, Conn., listed Entrust as a "leader" in its 2009 Magic Quadrant for Web Fraud Detection released in February 2009. Based on organizations' fraud detection and multifactor authentication solutions, Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Web Fraud Detection placed Entrust in the leadership position for its capabilities in several non-biased categories.
In September 2008, Entrust participated in the ePassports EAC Conformity & Interoperability Tests in Prague, Czech Republic. Facilitated by a consortium of the European Commission, Brussels Interoperability Group (BIG) and the European Commission Joint Research Centre, the Prague tests allowed European countries to verify conformance of their second-generation ePassports containing fingerprint biometric data protected by Extended Access Control
functions, commonly referred to as EAC. Additional testing included verification of crossover interoperability between EAC inspection systems and ePassports from different countries.
Prior to it becoming a private-equity company Entrust was included on the Russell 3000 Index in July 2008. In July 2007, Entrust contributed public key infrastructure
(PKI) technology to the open-source community through Sun Microsystems, Inc.
and the Mozilla Foundation
. Specifically, Entrust supplied certificate revocation list distribution points (CRL-DP), Patent 5,699,431, to Sun under a royalty-free license for incorporation of that capability into the Mozilla open-source libraries.
In July 2006, Entrust acquired Business Signatures Corporation, a leading supplier of non-invasive fraud detection solutions, for $50 million (USD). From a GAAP accounting perspective, the total purchase price was approximately $55.0 million, including assumed stock options, transaction expenses and net asset value. Giving Entrust a West coast presence in Redwood City, Calif., Business Signatures was founded in 2001 by former executives from Oracle, HP and Cisco. It originally was funded by the Texas Pacific Group
, Walden International, Ram Shriram of Google and Dave Roux of Silver Lake Partners
. The company had just more than 40 employees before the acquisition.
Entrust acquired Orion Security Solutions, a supplier of public key infrastructure services, in June 2006.
In mid-2004, Entrust acquired AmikaNow! Corporation's advanced content scanning, analysis and compliance technology. Using highly sophisticated content analysis tools, the technology is designed to automatically analyze and categorize email message and document content based on the contextual meaning, not simply pre-defined word lists. Policies can be customized to suit the corporate environment and be automatically enforced at the boundary to help customers reduce business risk and help in their compliance with privacy and securities laws including HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
, Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
and various U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations.
In April 2002, Entrust’s PKI technology served as the foundation for the prototype of what is now the United States Federal Bridge Certification Authority (FBCA). The Federal Bridge certificate authority is a fundamental element of the trust infrastructure that provides the basis for intergovernmental and cross-governmental secure communications. Acting as a trust conduit, the FBCA extends the benefits that agencies and government organizations achieve through the use of Public Key technology to a broader set of applications and transactions. Entrust's PKI serves as a core element of the Federal Bridge and demonstrates interoperability with all major FBCA vendors.
Through its acquisition of enCommerce in May 2000, Entrust combined authentication and authorization technologies in a single security infrastructure. In 1994, Entrust built and sold the first commercially available PKI to make it possible to manage the keys and certificates that enable encryption and digital signatures.
Public key infrastructure
Public Key Infrastructure is a set of hardware, software, people, policies, and procedures needed to create, manage, distribute, use, store, and revoke digital certificates. In cryptography, a PKI is an arrangement that binds public keys with respective user identities by means of a certificate...
(PKI), multifactor authentication, Secure Socket Layer certificates, fraud detection, digital certificates and mobile authentication. Headquartered in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, the company’s largest office is near Ottawa
Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...
, Ontario, Canada. It also has offices in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
, Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
and other cities internationally.
Entrust reports having customers at public and private organizations in 60 countries, with 125 patents either granted or pending in the areas of authentication, physical/logical access, certificates, e-content delivery and citizen identities.
Entrust lists customers including the U.S. Departments of Energy, Homeland Security, State, Treasury and Labor; Citibank
Citibank
Citibank, a major international bank, is the consumer banking arm of financial services giant Citigroup. Citibank was founded in 1812 as the City Bank of New York, later First National City Bank of New York...
; Expedia.com; the FBI; Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse
The Credit Suisse Group AG is a Swiss multinational financial services company headquartered in Zurich, with more than 250 branches in Switzerland and operations in more than 50 countries.-History:...
; SWIFT
Swift
The swifts are a family, Apodidae, of highly aerial birds. They are superficially similar to swallows, but are actually not closely related to passerine species at all; swifts are in the separate order Apodiformes, which they share with hummingbirds...
; the Government of the United Kingdom; Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Government; the United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...
; the Danish National Police; the Royal Bank of Scotland
Royal Bank of Scotland
The Royal Bank of Scotland Group is a British banking and insurance holding company in which the UK Government holds an 84% stake. This stake is held and managed through UK Financial Investments Limited, whose voting rights are limited to 75% in order for the bank to retain its listing on the...
; NASA
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
; the Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank
The twelve Federal Reserve Banks form a major part of the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States. The twelve federal reserve banks together divide the nation into twelve Federal Reserve Districts, the twelve banking districts created by the Federal Reserve Act of...
; Chase Manhattan Bank
Chase Manhattan Bank
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., doing business as Chase, is a national bank that constitutes the consumer and commercial banking subsidiary of financial services firm JPMorgan Chase. The bank was known as Chase Manhattan Bank until it merged with J.P. Morgan & Co. in 2000...
; the State of Illinois; Hotwire.com
Hotwire.com
Hotwire is a discount travel website that offers low prices on airfare, hotel, rental cars, and vacation packages by selling off unsold travel inventory at discounted prices....
; the Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
Ministry of Justice; and other government entities and business enterprises.
Previously a publicly-traded company, in July 2009 Entrust was acquired by Thoma Bravo
Thoma Cressey Bravo
Thoma Cressey Bravo, formerly Thoma Cressey Equity Partners, is a private equity and growth capital firm based in Chicago and San Francisco...
, a U.S.-based private equity firm, for $124 million.
CEO Background
Current President and CEO Bill (F. William) Conner speaks regularly on global and national cybersecurity and infrastructure issues.- In June 2011, he and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet NapolitanoJanet NapolitanoJanet Napolitano is the third and current United States Secretary of Homeland Security, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She is the fourth person to hold the position, which was created after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the 21st...
gave keynote addresses at the 2011 West VirginiaWest VirginiaWest Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...
Homeland Security Summit and Expo sponsored by West Virginia senator Jay RockefellerJay RockefellerJohn Davison "Jay" Rockefeller IV is the senior United States Senator from West Virginia. He was first elected to the Senate in 1984, while in office as Governor of West Virginia, a position he held from 1977 to 1985...
. He later joined a panel discussion, "Protecting Your Business from Cyber Attacks & Crime and Privacy of Electronic Data," led by Karen S. Evans, National Director of US Cyber Challenge..
- In May 2011, he gave opening remarks for a luncheon at Cards Middle East 2011 in Abu Dhabi.
- In November 2010, he was invited to address global security and law enforcement officers at the 79th General Assembly of INTERPOLInterpolInterpol, whose full name is the International Criminal Police Organization – INTERPOL, is an organization facilitating international police cooperation...
in Doha, Qatar.
- In June 2010, he addressed the United NationsUnited NationsThe United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
on global challenges in cybercrime.
History
GartnerGartner
Gartner, Inc. is an information technology research and advisory firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, United States. It was known as GartnerGroup until 2001....
, an information technology research and advisory firm headquartered in Stamford, Conn., listed Entrust as a "leader" in its 2009 Magic Quadrant for Web Fraud Detection released in February 2009. Based on organizations' fraud detection and multifactor authentication solutions, Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Web Fraud Detection placed Entrust in the leadership position for its capabilities in several non-biased categories.
In September 2008, Entrust participated in the ePassports EAC Conformity & Interoperability Tests in Prague, Czech Republic. Facilitated by a consortium of the European Commission, Brussels Interoperability Group (BIG) and the European Commission Joint Research Centre, the Prague tests allowed European countries to verify conformance of their second-generation ePassports containing fingerprint biometric data protected by Extended Access Control
Extended access control
Extended Access Control is a mechanism specified to allow only authorized Inspection system to read sensitive biometric data such as fingerprints from ePassports...
functions, commonly referred to as EAC. Additional testing included verification of crossover interoperability between EAC inspection systems and ePassports from different countries.
Prior to it becoming a private-equity company Entrust was included on the Russell 3000 Index in July 2008. In July 2007, Entrust contributed public key infrastructure
Public key infrastructure
Public Key Infrastructure is a set of hardware, software, people, policies, and procedures needed to create, manage, distribute, use, store, and revoke digital certificates. In cryptography, a PKI is an arrangement that binds public keys with respective user identities by means of a certificate...
(PKI) technology to the open-source community through Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...
and the Mozilla Foundation
Mozilla Foundation
The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization that exists to support and provide leadership for the open source Mozilla project. The organization sets the policies that govern development, operates key infrastructure and controls trademarks and other intellectual property...
. Specifically, Entrust supplied certificate revocation list distribution points (CRL-DP), Patent 5,699,431, to Sun under a royalty-free license for incorporation of that capability into the Mozilla open-source libraries.
In July 2006, Entrust acquired Business Signatures Corporation, a leading supplier of non-invasive fraud detection solutions, for $50 million (USD). From a GAAP accounting perspective, the total purchase price was approximately $55.0 million, including assumed stock options, transaction expenses and net asset value. Giving Entrust a West coast presence in Redwood City, Calif., Business Signatures was founded in 2001 by former executives from Oracle, HP and Cisco. It originally was funded by the Texas Pacific Group
Texas Pacific Group
TPG Capital is one of the largest private equity investment firms globally, focused on leveraged buyout, growth capital and leveraged recapitalization investments in distressed companies and turnaround situations. TPG also manages investment funds specializing in growth capital, venture capital,...
, Walden International, Ram Shriram of Google and Dave Roux of Silver Lake Partners
Silver Lake Partners
Silver Lake is a US-based private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout and growth capital investments in technology, technology-enabled and related industries...
. The company had just more than 40 employees before the acquisition.
Entrust acquired Orion Security Solutions, a supplier of public key infrastructure services, in June 2006.
In mid-2004, Entrust acquired AmikaNow! Corporation's advanced content scanning, analysis and compliance technology. Using highly sophisticated content analysis tools, the technology is designed to automatically analyze and categorize email message and document content based on the contextual meaning, not simply pre-defined word lists. Policies can be customized to suit the corporate environment and be automatically enforced at the boundary to help customers reduce business risk and help in their compliance with privacy and securities laws including HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
The Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act , also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, is an act of the 106th United States Congress...
, Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act is a Canadian law relating to data privacy. It governs how private sector organizations collect, use and disclose personal information in the course of commercial business. In addition, the Act contains various provisions to...
and various U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations.
In April 2002, Entrust’s PKI technology served as the foundation for the prototype of what is now the United States Federal Bridge Certification Authority (FBCA). The Federal Bridge certificate authority is a fundamental element of the trust infrastructure that provides the basis for intergovernmental and cross-governmental secure communications. Acting as a trust conduit, the FBCA extends the benefits that agencies and government organizations achieve through the use of Public Key technology to a broader set of applications and transactions. Entrust's PKI serves as a core element of the Federal Bridge and demonstrates interoperability with all major FBCA vendors.
Through its acquisition of enCommerce in May 2000, Entrust combined authentication and authorization technologies in a single security infrastructure. In 1994, Entrust built and sold the first commercially available PKI to make it possible to manage the keys and certificates that enable encryption and digital signatures.
External links
- Main website of Entrust
- Entrust SSL certificates website
- Entrust company profile on LinkedIn
- Profile of President and CEO Bill (F. William) Conner on LinkedIn
- Profile of President and CEO Bill (F. William) Conner on ProfNet speakers website
See also
- RSA SecurityRSA SecurityRSA, the security division of EMC Corporation, is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, United States, and maintains offices in Australia, Ireland, Israel, the United Kingdom, Singapore, India, China, Hong Kong and Japan....
- ComodoComodoComodo Group, Inc. is a privately held group of companies providing computer software and SSL digital certificates, based in Jersey City, New Jersey, in the United States...
- DigiCertDigiCertDigiCert Inc is a privately held, US based X.509 SSL certificate provider. As a trusted third party, DigiCert verifies the authenticity of secure websites on behalf of a web browser for the purpose of preventing online phishing scams....
- GeoTrustGeoTrustGeoTrust is a large digital certificate provider.GeoTrust was a restarted company in 2001 that acquired the security business of Equifax. The Equifax business was the basis of its fast growth. The founders of the restarted company were CEO Neal Creighton, CTO Chris Bailey and Principal Engineer...
- Safelayer
- ThawteThawteThawte Consulting is a certificate authority for X.509 certificates. Thawte was founded in 1995 by Mark Shuttleworth in South Africa and is the second largest public CA on the Internet.-Origins:...
- VeriSignVeriSignVerisign, Inc. is an American company based in Dulles, Virginia that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the .com, .net, and .name generic top-level domains and the .cc and .tv country-code...