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Entrust, Inc.

Founded	1994
Headquarters	Dallas, TX, United States
Number of locations	15
Key people	F. William (Bill) Conner - President and CEO
Industry	Online information and identity protection
Services	PKI, SSL certificates, authentication, encryption, fraud detection, secure e-mail, and layered security
Revenue	$99.7 million (2008)
Employees	411
Divisions	CygnaCom Solutions
Website	www.entrust.com

Headquartered in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Entrust, Inc., specializes in security solutions such as public key infrastructure, multifactor authentication, SSL, fraud detection and e-mail security.^[1]

In July 2009, Entrust was acquired by Thomas Bravo, a U.S.-based private equity firm, for $124 million.^[2]

History

Gartner, 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^[3] 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.

Entrust was included on the Russell 3000 Index in July 2008, but has been acquired by private equity firm Thomas Bravo.^[4]

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.^[5]

Entrust was the first Certificate authority (CA) to successfully meet the WebTrust operational requirements for Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates in May 2007. Entrust met the audit requirements established by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, based on the EV guidelines produced by the CA/Browser Forum.

In July 2006, Entrust acquired Business Signatures Corporation^[6], 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.^[7]

In mid-2004, Entrust acquired AmikaNow! Corporation's advanced content scanning, analysis and compliance technology.^[8] 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.

One of Entrust's primary offices in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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Official Web Sites

• Entrust Web Site
• Entrust Certificate Services
• Cygnacom Solutions - An Entrust Subsidiary
• Entrust Japan
• Extended Validation SSL Information Center
• Public Key Infrastructure FAQ

News, Profiles & Financial Reports

• Yahoo! - Entrust, Inc. Company Profile
• Yahoo! - Entrust, Inc. Key Financial Statistics
• Wright Report - Entrust, Inc. Corporate Snapshot
• Business Week - Entrust, Inc. Stock Quote & Company Profile
• Seeking Alpha - Entrust, Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
• Edgar Online - Entrust, Inc. SEC Filings

See also

• RSA Security
• Comodo SSL
• DigiCert
• GeoTrust
• Safelayer
• Thawte
• VeriSign

References