QuoVadis
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QuoVadis is a Certificate Authority
, a Trusted Third Party
which issues digital certificates for authentication and digital signatures.
QuoVadis is a Qualified Certification Services Provider in several countries. This means that QuoVadis is accredited by those countries to issue Qualified Certificates. Digital signatures created using those Qualified Certificates enjoy a special legal status.
QuoVadis’ accreditations include:
QuoVadis has operations in Switzerland, Holland, the United Kingdom, Bermuda, and New Zealand.
The company was founded in 1999 with backing from a venture capital affiliate of the Zurich Financial Services Group. The company later underwent a management buyout and subsequent private equity investment from ABRY Partners
.
QuoVadis is a member of the CA/Browser Forum
, and contributed to the creation of standards for the Extended Validation Certificate.
QuoVadis is an approved issuer for SuisseID, the Swiss voluntary national e-ID program.
In Bermuda, the company's subsidiary QuoVadis Services is a leading provider of managed hosting and private cloud services through its SecureCentre data centers.
Certificate authority
In cryptography, a certificate authority, or certification authority, is an entity that issues digital certificates. The digital certificate certifies the ownership of a public key by the named subject of the certificate...
, a Trusted Third Party
Trusted third party
In cryptography, a trusted third party is an entity which facilitates interactions between two parties who both trust the third party; The Third Party reviews all critical transaction communications between the parties, based on the ease of creating fraudulent digital content. In TTP models, the...
which issues digital certificates for authentication and digital signatures.
QuoVadis is a Qualified Certification Services Provider in several countries. This means that QuoVadis is accredited by those countries to issue Qualified Certificates. Digital signatures created using those Qualified Certificates enjoy a special legal status.
QuoVadis’ accreditations include:
- Qualified CSP in Netherlands granted by the Independent Post and Telecommunications Authority (OPTA), based on a certification by the British Standards Institute (BSI) using the TTP.NL Scheme for Certification Authorities.
- PKIoverheid managed by Logius, designed for trustworthy electronic communication within and with the Dutch government.
- Qualified CSP in Switzerland granted by BAKOM based on a certification from KPMG using ETSI TS 101 456 and other related standards.
- Authorised CSP in Bermuda based on that country’s Electronic Transactions Act.
- WebTrust for Certification Authorities and WebTrust for Extended Validation
QuoVadis has operations in Switzerland, Holland, the United Kingdom, Bermuda, and New Zealand.
The company was founded in 1999 with backing from a venture capital affiliate of the Zurich Financial Services Group. The company later underwent a management buyout and subsequent private equity investment from ABRY Partners
ABRY Partners
ABRY Partners is a private equity firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts that focuses on investments in media. Since 1989, the firm has completed over $18.0 billion of leveraged transactions and other private equity and mezzanine investments, representing investments in more than 450 media...
.
QuoVadis is a member of the CA/Browser Forum
CA/Browser Forum
The Certification Authority Browser Forum, also known as CA/Browser Forum, is a voluntary consortium of certification authorities and browser industry leaders that created the SSL certificates, and vendors of Internet browser software and other applications....
, and contributed to the creation of standards for the Extended Validation Certificate.
QuoVadis is an approved issuer for SuisseID, the Swiss voluntary national e-ID program.
In Bermuda, the company's subsidiary QuoVadis Services is a leading provider of managed hosting and private cloud services through its SecureCentre data centers.