Technological Partners

Ascertia is a privately funded company, managed from the UK with globally located development units. Founded by Industry Professionals to provide services and products for realisation of commercial use of cryptography. The company's mission is to provide high quality, cost-effective products and solutions that integrate with existing and widely deployed software products, enhancing their security transparently. The Company uses its own distributed technologies to prove that they provide value for businesses in real world deployments.

The Company remains independent from Certification Authority products and vendors and therefore its Professional Service is free to provide objective advice for the deployment of PKI. Furthermore, it also maintains a state-of-the-art technology center for its consultants to test and demonstrate vendor products and independently verify claims, thus providing advice best suited for the task at hand.

The Company's principals authored, and continue to author, security standards in bodies such as IETF, ETSI, CEN that impact both Public Key and Secret Key protocols.

The Company's philosophy is enhanced by the development of PKI enabled solutions, developed to meet specific needs of vertical markets. These solutions provide 'all that is needed' for real business benefit and transparently make use of digital signatures and encryption as needed.

Symantec was founded in 1982 and has evolved to become one of the world's top software companies with more than 18,500 employees in over 50 countries. Symantec provides security, storage and system management solutions to help its customers - from consumers and small businesses to the largest global organizations - secure and manage their information against a growing risk, more completely and efficiently than any other company.

In August 2010, Symantec acquired VeriSign's security business, namely issuing Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates, Code Signing, Managed PKI, VeriSign Trust Seal, VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP) Authentication Service and VIP Fraud Detection Service (FDS). Symantec created the most trusted global brand for protecting information and identities online.

The Dutch company A.E.T. Europe B.V. (AET), headquartered in Arnhem and founded in 1998, is committed to IT security. AET offers its customers ingenious solutions based on worldwide accepted standards for e-commerce and information security by developing cryptographic middleware and card management systems.

The international customer base that has opted for AET products and uses them in a great range of projects and applications is impressive.

The reasons for this success include the simplicity and flexibility of the products and services offered. From administration and integration into existing environments all the way to operation – users benefit at every stage thanks to AET’s philosophy which allows for configuration of very highly complex systems and sophisticated technologies into simple processes that non-experts can relate to.

Gemalto, The Data Protection Company

Gemalto is one of the largest data security companies in the world, and is trusted to provide data protection solutions to the most sensitive data for market-leading organizations around the globe. Our data protection solutions ensure high value information is secure throughout its' lifecycle, providing data security from the data center to the cloud. show less -

More than 25,000 customers across commercial enterprises and government agencies trust Gemalto for data protection, cloud security, two-factor authentication, cybersecurity, software protection and software licensing. Gemalto is one of the largest data security companies in the world, delivering comprehensive data protection solutions for the persistent protection of high value information.

• We protect the most money that moves—more than 80% of the world's intra-bank fund transfers and nearly $1 trillion per day.
• We are the first to secure access to the cloud—with the industry's only centrally managed identity federation solution for SaaS applications.
• We protect the most classified information—with data security products found in every vehicle, aircraft and ship in the US military.
• We are market leaders in safeguarding PKI—#1 in market share for PKI smart cards and USB tokens and award-winning hardware security modules.
• We have award-winning data security solutions for financial services—including the industry's first secure, webbased PIN issuance and management solution.
• We protect the most high value software—more than 100 million license keys protecting the most software licenses in the industry.
• We employ the most crypto experts in the industry—550 encryption engineers developing cutting-edge technologies and patents.
• We have the most certifications—more FIPS 140-2 and FIPS 140-1 certifications than any company in the industry.
• We are the first to monetize the cloud—providing the industry's first and only software licensing and entitlement management solution for ISVs, delivered from the cloud for the cloud.We are trusted around the world—providing data protection and data security solutions to more than 25,000 customers across 100 countries.