Post.Trust (www.posttrust.ie) is a wholly owned subsidiary company of PCI Ltd. and is staffed and managed by PCI.

Post.Trust was established to provide advanced data security solutions, with particular focus on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology, to Irish businesses in the B2B and B2C sectors.

Post.Trust is a trusted Certificate Authority responsible for issuing, renewing and managing Digital Certificates, implementing PKI based security solutions and offering verifiable online digital identities. Post.Trust employs sophisticated technological and procedural systems which comply with the criteria set out in the Irish Electronic Commerce Act of 2000 in the issuance of 'qualified certificates'.

Post.Trust has been successfully independently audited to meet several international standards as follows:

• The ISO 17799 standard for Information Security Management by a leading Irish security consultancy.

• One of the world's largest international Credit Card companies to ensure compliance with International Financial Industry standards in relation to Internet Hosting and Security Management.

• The AICPA/CICA WebTrust SM/TM Program for Certification Authorities by Microsoft Corporation to evaluate Post.Trust's root certificate for inclusion in the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser. Microsoft Root Certificate Program Members.

Post.Trust combines its extensive experience in the management and deployment of PKI solutions with the broad software development capabilities of PCI, to design new models and adapt existing solutions for businesses in the use of data security. PCI brings experience of designing and developing cryptographic solutions for the Banking and Retail industries to the equation, resulting in a broad multi-discipline capability.

Businesses can leverage Post.Trust's experience to discover the full potential of the Internet in delivering online authentication, non-repudiation and data privacy in a legally compliant manner.

Post.Trust has placed a great deal of emphasis on solving two of the biggest traditional problems associated with deployment of robust PKI solutions, usability and cost. Post.Trust uses a unique software based smartcard system, from one of the world's leading pioneers in this field, Arcot Systems (www.arcot.com), to address the problem of using a simple, secure, and cost-effective method of deploying certificates and private keys. This solution eliminates the need to deploy expensive hardware tokens such as physical smartcards.

Post.Trust in its function as a Certificate Authority issues certificates for a variety of different purposes including Digital Signing of forms and documents, Data Encryption, SSL Server and Client Authentication, Code Signing and secure EMail.