Entrust
Securing Digital Identities and Information
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| Private | |
| Industry | Online information and identity protection |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Headquarters | Dallas, Texas, United States |
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Number of locations
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15 |
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Key people
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David Wagner; President |
| Services | Public key infrastructure, Secure Socket Layer certificates, multifactor authentication, EPassport, fraud detection, digital certificates and mobile authentication |
| Owner | Datacard Group |
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Number of employees
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350 |
| Divisions | CygnaCom Solutions |
| Website | www |
Entrust Inc. is a $130 million privately owned software company with 350 employees. Originally a spin-off from Nortel's Secure Networks division, it provides identity management 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 in 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.
Previously a publicly traded company, in July 2009 Entrust was acquired by Thoma Bravo, a U.S.-based private equity firm, for $124 million.
In December 2013, Datacard Group announced the acquisition of Entrust Inc.
Datacard Group finalized the acquisition of Entrust in December 2013 from private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Chertoff Capital, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Chertoff Group, and Centerview Partners acted as financial advisors to Entrust.
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.
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