QuoVadis

This article is about the certificate authority. For other uses, see Quo Vadis (disambiguation).
QuoVadis Group
Private company
Industry Computer security, Internet security
Founded 1999 (1999)
Headquarters Hamilton, Bermuda
Key people
Chairman & CEO: Roman Brunner
Website www.quovadisglobal.com

QuoVadis is an X.509 certificate authority, a trusted third party which issues digital certificates for authentication and digital signatures as well as for TLS/SSL. QuoVadis is a Qualified Certification Services Provider in several countries. This means that QuoVadis is accredited by those countries to issue Qualified Certificates. Digital signatures created using those Qualified Certificates enjoy a special legal status.[1]

QuoVadis’ accreditations include:

QuoVadis has operations in Belgium, Bermuda, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

The company was founded in 1999 with backing from a venture capital affiliate of the Zurich Financial Services Group.[8] The company later underwent a management buyout and subsequent private equity investment from ABRY Partners.[9]

QuoVadis is a member of the CA/Browser Forum, and contributed to the creation of standards for the Extended Validation Certificate and the SSL Baseline Requirements.

QuoVadis is an approved issuer for SuisseID, the Swiss voluntary national e-ID program.

In Bermuda, the company's subsidiary QuoVadis Services is a leading provider of managed hosting and private cloud services.[10]

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