HID Global Expands Digital Certificate Family to Secure Downloaded Software
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HID Global, a worldwide leader in trusted identity solutions, announced it has expanded its digital certificate family to offer an Extended Validation (EV) Code Signing (EV CS) certificate that protects software from tampering and forgery. Our IdenTrust code signing certificate identifies a software publisher at the highest level of assurance specified in industry standards and can be used to verify that desktop and mobile applications, firmware, drivers or other software code are being sent from an authenticated source and have not been altered by unauthorized parties. Each TrustID EV CS digital certificate is issued into a FIPS 140-2 Level 2-compliant HID Crescendo® smartcard or USB Token that ensures publishers can only access it through a two-factor authentication process. A free HID Global Timestamp Authority service further enhances the IdenTrust TrustID EV CS certificate offering by adding long-term validation of the digital signatures integrity as well as non-repudiation even after the IdenTrust TrustID EV CS certificate has expired or been revoked. Until the reputation is established, the filtering system will continue to flag an application as a potential source of malware infections the first time that customers launch it. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, HID Global has over 3,000 employees worldwide and operates international offices that support more than 100 countries.
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