relevant discussion may be found on the talk page . please do not remove this message until conditions to do so are met . november 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message entrust inc. securing digital identities and information type private industry online information and identity protection founded 1994 1994 headquarters dallas texas united states number of locations 15 key people david wagner ; president services public key infrastructure secure socket layer certificates multifactor authentication epassport fraud detection digital certificates and mobile authentication owner datacard group number of employees 350 divisions cygnacom solutions website www.entrust.com entrust inc. is a 130 million privately owned software company with 350 employees . originally a spin off from nortel s secure networks division 1 it provides identity management 2 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 . 3 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 . 4 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 . 5 previously a publicly traded company in july 2009 entrust was acquired by thoma bravo a u.s. based private equity firm for 124 million . 6 in december 2013 datacard group announced the acquisition of entrust inc. 7 contents 1 company leadership 2 history 3 see also 4 references 5 external links company leadership edit as part of the acquisition by datacard group entrust named david wagner president . 8 former president and ceo bill f. william conner spoke several times on global and national cybersecurity and infrastructure issues . in february 2012 conner testified in front of united states house of representatives committee on energy and commerce on the subject of cybersecurity threats facing the us . 9 in june 2011 conner gave the keynote addresses at the 2011 west virginia homeland security summit and expo sponsored by west virginia senator jay rockefeller . 10 in november 2010 conner was invited to address global security and law enforcement officers at the 79th general assembly of interpol in doha qatar . 11 history edit bill f. william conner former president and ceo of entrust speaking on global cybersecurity before the interpol 79th general assembly in doha qatar november 2010 . an entrust sponsored porsche 997 gt3 cup . core to a forward thinking strategy datacard group finalized the acquisition of entrust in december 2013 from private equity firm thoma bravo . datacard group stated that the acquisition builds on the strengths of each company to enable its customers and partners to deliver better services in a highly connected environments . 12 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 . 13 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 . prior to it becoming a private equity company entrust was included on the russell 3000 index in july 2008 . 14 in july 2007 entrust contributed 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 . 15 in july 2006 entrust acquired business signatures corporation 16 a 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 . business signatures was founded in 2001 in redwood city california 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 about 40 employees before the acquisition . entrust acquired orion security solutions a supplier of public key infrastructure services in june 2006 . 17 in mid 2004 entrust acquired amikanow corporation s content scanning analysis and compliance technology . 18 the technology is designed to automatically analyze and categorize email message and document content based on the contextual meaning rather than pre defined word lists . policies can be customized to suit the corporate environment and be automatically enforced at the boundary and are aimed at 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 . entrust s pki is interoperable with all major fbca vendors . which in may 2000 entrust acquired encommerce a provider of authentication and authorization technologies . in 1994 entrust built and sold the first commercially available pki . see also edit comodo digicert geotrust nexus rsa security safelayer thawte verisign ascertia references edit nortel spins off entrust security arm . v3.co.uk . 1997 01 03 . acohido byron 2013 08 28 . id security ceo nyt hackers did their homework . usa today . entrust profile hoovers inc. subscription required entrust global office locations from . entrust.com . retrieved 2013 01 21 . entrust service areas and customer statistics from . entrust.com . retrieved 2013 01 21 . thoma bravo completes entrust acquisition joint news release july 29 2009 . entrust.com . 2009 07 29 . retrieved 2013 01 21 . datacard group announces agreement to acquire entrust inc. to strengthen trusted identities and transaction security . entrust leadership david wagner president . cybersecurity threats to communications networks and private sector responses . retrieved 2013 08 21 . rockefeller touts better communication tools for first responders at west virginia homeland security summit . retrieved 2013 08 21 . speeches on interpol 79th general assembly doha qatar november 2010 datacard group announces agreement to acquire entrust inc. to strengthen trusted identities and transaction security . 2013 12 17 . programme . e passports 2008 . retrieved 2013 01 21 . entrust added to russell 3000 index dallas business journal july 3 2008 . bizjournals.com . 2008 07 03 . retrieved 2013 01 21 . entrust offers certificate technology to mozilla computerworld canada july 25 2007 . itworldcanada.com . retrieved 2013 01 21 . ellen messmer 2006 07 20 . entrust acquires business signatures for 50m computer world july 20 2006 . computerworld.com . retrieved 2013 01 21 . welsh william 2006 06 15 . entrust buys orion security solutions washington technology june 15 2006 . washingtontechnology.com . retrieved 2013 01 21 . entrust buys up amikanow ottawa business journal may 19 2004 . canadait.com . 2013 01 15 . retrieved 2013 01 21 . external links edit official website entrust ssl certificates website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title entrust & oldid 743419269 categories software companies based in texascompanies based in dallascomputer security software companiese commercecomputer security companiescompanies spun off from nortelcertificate authoritieshidden categories npov disputes from november 2012all npov disputesall articles with specifically marked weasel worded phrasesarticles with specifically marked weasel worded phrases from april 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to 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