Online and Digital Identification, Securing Web 2.0, PKI and Digital Certificates

VeriSign finalizes acquisition of TrustBearer

Monday, April 5, 2010

After year long collaboration, VeriSign announced the completion of the acquisition of TrustBearer Labs LLC.

Known for providing strong authentication solutions for online applications, TrustBearer assets will help VeriSign reach a broader presence on various Web browsers and platforms.

The online authentication features provide security and identity protections for both the consumers, employees and business partners.

Additionally VeriSign’s Managed PKI (MPKI) product is the authentication solution TrustBearer has been a part of developing already in the past year. VeriSign representatives have mentioned embedding TrustBearer technology in the future VeriSign models. [end] 

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