WISeKey

WISeKey is a privately owned company based in Geneva, Switzerland. WISeKey maps to the electronic environment the traditional, analogue and/or paper-based identification methods for persons, organizations and objects. To do so, WISeKey provides a reliable manner of establishing universal secure communications with uniquely identifiable individuals and organizations as well as animate and inanimate objects of tangible or intangible nature.

WISeKey started its operation as a provider Root Certification Authority service to Certification Authorities worldwide and evolved to a global player on Global E-Security. The trustworthiness of WISeKey’s services is based on their carefully orchestrated security practices and procedures used exclusively for the issuance of high-security certificates to Certification Authorities and other entities that form part of the operational services of the globally interoperable PKIs below it. As part of WISeKey’s security procedures, the Global Root Private Cryptographic Key used to issue certificates is stored in an off-line high-security facility deep in the Swiss Alps.

With such high-security infrastructure in place, WISeKey has signed a partnership agreement with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to promote the deployment of PKIs in 188 countries with the intention of expanding the use of secure electronic communications. In doing so, WISeKey is also providing e-commerce solutions based on the mass usage of certification and PKI enabled applications to secure the Internet for e-business. This approach changes the entire dynamics of how the Internet is used and will propel its transactional-based usage into the 21st century. For more information visit www.wisekey.com