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7.5.2019

What means verification?

I am a one of Wesentra’s three verification specialists and I have been trained and certified by Entrust Datacard. Our job is to find all needed information, verify their organizations’ legal existence, contact customers and check their intention for getting an SSL/TLS certificate as well as help them with the verification process. We prepare the needed verification documents and an auditor from Entrust Datacard checks the documents and either accepts the verification or asks for more information. Entrust Datacard has authorized four partners globally to do this verification work, Wesentra is the only one in Europe.

9.4.20199.4.2019

Video streams from our seminar on Feb-6 and highlights from session “SSL/TLS certificates – what lies ahead?”

Our seminar ”Electronic signing, PKI Management and SSL certificates” on Feb-6 2019 was attended by over 40 professionals with lots of experience about cyber security. The seminar was streamed on-line to the net and it is still available as recordings. This article provides the links to the recordings and the material as well as highlights from the third session.

2.4.20192.4.2019

Video streams from our seminar on Feb-6 and highlights from session ”PKI Management and Managed PKI”

26.3.201926.3.2019

Video streams from our seminar on Feb-6 and highlights from session ”Electronic signing, digital signing, eIDAS, PadES”

3.1.201927.3.2019

Seminar 6.2.2019

Welcome to our seminar on 6.2.2019 at 11:30 – 16:00 in Jätkäsaari, Helsinki. You can follow the three sessions of the seminar also in the net.

19.12.201827.3.2019

Wesentra was named the SSL Partner of the Year EMEA

With our CTO Harri Tuuva we attended the Entrust Datacard’s Global Partner Conference in London last June. During the conference we heard market updates on current situation in SSL-world and also, information on other solutions provided by Entrust Datacard. As a part of the conference, Entrust Datacard rewarded their strategic partners and Wesentra was named the SSL partner of the Year EMEA.

11.12.201811.12.2018

How SSL Certificates Work

SSL certificates are used to initiate secure communications over computer networks, usually referred as HTTPS traffic. Organization Validated (OV) and Extended Validated (EV) Certificates provide both encryption and identification: user can check the name of the organization from a certificate and can be sure that a reliable third party (Certificate Authority – CA) has validated the organization. Domain Validated (DV) certificates give only encryption as the organization has not been validated at all. The actual name and protocol is TLS (Transport Layer Security) but I will use the term SSL (Secure Socket Layer) because it is still better known and more commonly used.

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13.11.201827.3.2019

Starting this blog finally also in English

we_secure_700X400 Our web site and blog have been running since 2015 only in Finnish and only about SSL certificates. It is time to change this.

Our goal has been to make our customers’ life easier when dealing with SSL certificates. Obviously this has worked as our market share in Finland in OV/EV certificates has gone from 1% to 17% in seven years. And despite the size of the company (5 persons) Wesentra has become the largest distributor of SSL certificates for Entrust Datacard in Europe (and won SSL Partner of the Year EMEA award in 2018).

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