is a key requirement for businesses to take up new challenges.

PKI as the technical answer to trust needs
Public Key Infrastructure is a technology based on Internet standards that enables:

- Confidentiality: keeping information private.
- Authentication: knowing the identity of your counterpart.
- Data integrity: guaranteeing that exchanged data has not been tampered with.
- Signature and non-repudiation: ensuring that transactions cannot be denied and providing a legal proof for electronic transactions.

As trust is a key success factor for digital business development, countries have passed laws giving digital signatures the same legal value as regular signatures. Most of them require the use of Public Key Infrastructure and smart cards.

Associated key issues

• How will Internet trust impact business? Which trust applications benefit organizations?
• What are the appropriate technology solutions? Who are the key players in this field?
• What will be the impact on IT infrastructure and business organization? How will relationships between the different key players evolve?

Dictis, a PKI forerunner
Dictis will help you define your strategy and set up your new businesses better than anyone. We have been involved in numerous PKI related projects and have gained an undisputed expertise in related technologies and associated business stakes.

Dictis experience includes:
- Consulting for major telecommunication operators to define their wireless PKI strategies.
- Identification of acquisition targets and completion of the due-diligence process for a leading international IT security company.
- Benchmarking the impact of in-sourcing versus out-sourcing the Certificate Authority for a leading global retailer.
- Launch of Certplus: Dictis gathered noteworthy shareholders Gemplus, Verisign, France Telecom, Matra and Banques Populaires to jointly create Certplus, the leading PKI operator in France. Our team was in charge of planning and launching Certplus operations.
- Creation of Dictao, a 100% controlled subsidiary specializing in Trust Architectures and PKI integration.