Post.Trust (www.posttrust.ie)
is a wholly owned subsidiary company of PCI eCommerce Solutions 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.
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