Entrust
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Entrust Corporation is an American digital security company headquartered in Shakopee, Minnesota, formerly known as Entrust Datacard. The company develops hardware and software for card and ID issuance, identity verification, authentication, certificate and key lifecycle management, and post-quantum cryptography. Entrust serves enterprises, financial institutions, and government agencies globally, enabling protected identities, payments, and data security.
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Headquarters
Shakopee, Minnesota
Website
entrust.comFounded
1969
Company size
1001-5000 employees
Offerings
15 active
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Ideal Customer
- Entrust primarily targets large enterprises, financial institutions, and government agencies that require high-assurance, regulated identity and security solutions at scale.
- Its sweet spot is mid-to-large organizations—particularly those in heavily regulated industries such as banking, government, and healthcare—that need integrated solutions spanning identity verification, PKI, HSMs, and card issuance.
Key Differentiators
- Entrust claims to be the only vendor recognized in both the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Identity Verification (as a Visionary) and the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Access Management (as a Challenger for the third consecutive year), reflecting its unique breadth across the full identity lifecycle.
- It is also named a Leader in the 2025 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Identity Verification in Financial Services, a Leader in KuppingerCole's Passwordless Authentication Compass, and the overall leader in Government ID Credentials per ABI Research.
Industries Served
- Entrust serves a broad range of industries including financial services (banks, credit unions, fintechs, card issuers), government (federal, state, local, and international agencies for ePassports, national IDs, and citizen services), healthcare, enterprise IT, travel and border control, e-commerce, insurance, and IoT/industrial sectors.
- The company holds specific industry-relevant certifications including Visa Ready and Mastercard MDES certification for payments, eIDAS compliance for European digital signing, and is ranked number one in Government Issuance Solutions by ABI Research.
Service Coverage
- Entrust operates globally, supporting customers in over 150 countries through a worldwide partner network.
- The company is headquartered in Shakopee, Minnesota, and has offices across North America, Europe (including London), Asia-Pacific (including Tokyo), and other international locations.
Partnerships
- Entrust maintains a broad ecosystem of strategic technology and channel partnerships.
- It is an official member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association, with deep integrations into Microsoft Intune and Azure environments.
Company Size
- Entrust traces its roots to Datacard Corporation, founded in 1969, and merged with Entrust Inc. (founded 1994) when Datacard acquired Entrust in 2013, rebranding to Entrust Corporation in 2020.
- The company has approximately 3,000–3,800 employees globally and reported revenue of approximately $916.7 million in FY 2024.
Ownership
- Entrust is a privately held company.
- Its corporate lineage stems from Datacard Corporation, which was taken private in 1987 by the family investment office of Germany's Quandt family (the BMW dynasty), which retains long-term ownership.
Compliance & Certifications
- Entrust's security program is underpinned by ISO 27001, which serves as the foundation supplemented by additional organizational and product-level certifications.
- Its nShield 5 HSM product suite achieved FIPS 140-3 Level 3 certification in 2024—one of the highest U.S. government cryptographic standards—and Common Criteria EAL4+ certification, confirming compliance with the EU's eIDAS regulation.
Compiled from public sources by VenSearch · Last researched October 14, 2026
Offerings
15 offeringsCentral Card Issuance Systems
Entrust Central Card Issuance Systems provide high-volume, personalized card issuance for government and financial markets, including the Datacard MX series of printers for credit cards, government IDs, driver's licenses, and passports. The modular platforms integrate data preparation, personalization, card issuance, envelope insertion, and delivery. Entrust is ranked number one in Government Issuance Solutions by ABI Research and is a certified Visa Ready partner.
Certificate Lifecycle Management
Entrust Certificate Hub and related certificate management tools provide a single portal for discovering, controlling, and automating the management of public and private digital certificates across the enterprise. Solutions include the Entrust Discovery Scanner for finding and inventorying certificates, Certificate Agent for application-level security, and CA Gateway REST API for integrators and partners. These tools help organizations prevent outages from expired certificates and enforce security policies at scale.
CloudControl
Entrust CloudControl is a cloud security posture management (CSPM) solution that provides unified security and visibility across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. It governs access, enforces security policies, and supports compliance for virtualized platforms including VMware vSphere and Red Hat OpenShift. CloudControl integrates with Entrust IDaaS for external authentication and with nShield HSMs for hardware-backed key protection.
Cryptographic Security Platform
The Entrust Cryptographic Security Platform unifies PKI, HSMs, and key, certificate, and secrets lifecycle management in a single platform designed for crypto-agility, compliance, and post-quantum readiness. It provides centralized discovery, management, and automation of cryptographic keys, secrets, certificates, tokens, libraries, protocols, and configurations. The platform is deployable on-premises or as a cloud-based service and integrates with Entrust nShield HSMs for a hardware root of trust.
Digital Card Solution
The Entrust Digital Card Solution provides a digital-first payment and banking experience, allowing banks and credit unions to instantly provision digital payment credentials directly from their mobile application to cardholders' mobile wallets. The solution supports banks in delivering seamless digital onboarding and card issuance while reducing fraud exposure and maintaining regulatory compliance. It integrates with Entrust's broader issuance and identity security portfolio.
Electronic and Digital Signing
Entrust offers high-assurance digital and electronic signature solutions underpinned by PKI, including document signing certificates for PDFs and Office files, code signing to protect software integrity, and email signing for secure communications. On-premises Entrust Signing Engines enable large organizations to build eIDAS-aligned signing services. These solutions help organizations meet global compliance standards while securing document integrity and signer identity.
ePassport Solutions
Entrust ePassport Solutions provide governments with end-to-end issuance and inspection technology for electronic Machine-Readable Travel Documents (eMRTDs), including ePassports, eIDs, and mobile IDs. The solutions include PKI-based trust infrastructure, identity vetting and document-issuance workflow software, and automated national and international certificate management. Entrust also offers ePassport as a Service, a cloud-based scalable solution that manages the entire passport application, enrollment, and issuance process.
Identity as a Service (IDaaS)
Entrust Identity as a Service (IDaaS) is a cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) platform providing phishing-resistant passwordless multi-factor authentication (MFA), adaptive risk-based authentication, and single sign-on (SSO) for workforce, consumer, and citizen use cases. It supports Zero Trust security frameworks and includes AI-driven biometric verification, FIDO2/passkeys, certificate-based authentication, and identity lifecycle management. The platform integrates with on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
Identity Verification (Onfido)
Entrust Identity Verification, powered by the Onfido acquisition, is an AI-driven solution for verifying identities using photo-based identity documents, selfie biometrics, and AI algorithms. It integrates document verification, biometric verification, data verification, and fraud detection to enable secure digital onboarding and step-up authentication. The solution is used across financial services, government, and enterprise to combat deepfakes, synthetic identities, and account takeover attacks.
Instant Card Issuance Systems
Entrust Instant Card Issuance solutions enable financial institutions and government agencies to instantly issue personalized payment cards and ID cards in-branch, on-premises, or via self-service kiosks. The portfolio includes physical and digital card options, supporting credit, debit, and prepaid cards as well as enterprise and government ID cards. Entrust Instant Financial Card Issuance solutions are Visa Ready certified and won first place for innovation at the Mastercard Engage Excellence Awards 2024.
IoT Security
Entrust IoT Security enables organizations to secure IT and OT devices through scalable machine and user identity management, leveraging PKI to issue and manage digital certificates for IoT devices at scale. The solution supports device attestation, onboarding, machine identity lifecycle management, certificate signing, and cryptographic operations integrated with FIPS-compliant PKI and nShield HSM solutions. It helps organizations establish trusted device identities across industrial, automotive, medical, and enterprise IoT environments.
Managed PKI Services
Entrust Managed PKI Services allow organizations to outsource PKI operations to Entrust experts who manage certificate authority infrastructure, policies, and procedures on the customer's behalf. The service is hosted in highly available, fully redundant infrastructure with intelligent monitoring, robust data backup, and disaster recovery. It eliminates the need for in-house PKI expertise, secure facilities, and hardware or software investment.
nShield Hardware Security Modules (HSMs)
Entrust nShield HSMs are high-assurance, tamper-resistant hardware appliances that protect cryptographic keys and perform secure operations such as encryption, signing, and authentication. The nShield 5 HSM product suite has achieved FIPS 140-3 certification, the highest U.S. government standard for cryptographic security, and is available in network-attached, embedded, and as-a-service form factors. nShield HSMs integrate with a broad ecosystem of applications and Entrust's own PKI and key management platforms.
Post-Quantum Cryptography Solutions
Entrust offers post-quantum cryptography (PQC) readiness solutions to help organizations migrate to quantum-resistant algorithms, including support for ML-DSA and ML-KEM in its Certificate Authority and PKIaaS platforms. The Cryptographic Security Platform and nShield HSMs are designed for crypto-agility to support the transition as NIST standards evolve. Entrust provides a PKIaaS PQ offering with composite and pure quantum Certificate Authority hierarchies for organizations beginning their post-quantum journey.
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Solutions
Entrust offers a comprehensive suite of PKI solutions available in on-premises, managed, and as-a-service models, including the Entrust Certificate Authority software, Managed PKI Services, and PKI as a Service (PKIaaS). These solutions manage the full lifecycle of digital certificates for users, devices, and applications across enterprise, IoT, DevOps, ePassport, and national ID use cases. Entrust PKI supports post-quantum algorithms including ML-DSA and ML-KEM for quantum-resistant certificate issuance.
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