Vasco's CertiID Managed PKI offers trusted certificates to corporations' employees and business partners

Vasco Data Security International, Inc. (Nasdaq: VDSI; www.Vasco.com), a leading software security company specializing in strong authentication products and services, today announced that it launches its CertiID Managed PKI services on a global scale. With CertiID Managed PKI, corporations all over the world can benefit from trusted certificates and digital signatures without the need of implementing a PKI infrastructure in-house.

Vasco’s move towards the global managed PKI sector is a consequence of its recent acquisition of the Dutch internet trust provider DigiNotar. DigiNotar is a trusted Certificate Authority (CA), and will take care of the entire security process for Vasco’s Managed PKI customers.

The use of user authentication (OTP) with digital signatures (PKI) is growing rapidly, in various sectors and geographic markets. Vasco, as a market leader in the field of user authentication, electronic signatures and digital signatures, is well positioned to take advantage of that evolution.

Globally, government rules and regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley (U.S.) are pushing corporations towards the implementation of best practices, trusted online channel and solid reporting methods. Vasco’s CertiID Managed PKI provides tools for corporations to be compliant with afore mentioned rules and regulations.

With the launch of CertiID Managed PKI, Vasco has expanded its identity management offering. The company believes that there is global demand from corporations that want an outsourced security model, offering a wide variety of applications, including remote access, signing services, disk encryption and many more.

With its three core technologies, Vasco offers a complete and competitive outsourced security range:

Strong User Authentication via one-time passwords

Electronic Signatures for secure transactions

The highest available security technology currently in the market, Digital Signatures or PKI.

Vasco markets its Managed PKI services in three different ways:

Customers can order up to 25 CertiID Personal Enterprise Certificates directly via Vasco’s (www.Vasco.com) website,

Vasco’s channel partners can sell CertiID Personal Enterprise Certificatevouchers. These vouchers contain a code allowing the customer to order the certificates online via the Vasco website (up to 25 users) or take advantage of the customer specific managed portal to manage their certificates (over 25 users)

Vasco’s channel partners can bundle CertiID Personal Enterprise Certificateswith Vasco’s and third party products.

"With this global launch of CertiID Managed PKI, Vasco continues its strategy of buying technologies and companies locally and marketing them globally,” states Ken Hunt, Vasco’s Chairman and CEO. “2 quarters ago, we acquired DigiNotar. We are proud to state that CertiID Managed PKI is the second hidden DigiNotar gem that Vasco offers to the world. Earlier this month, we already launched our own set of SSL and EVSSL certificates.”