Audit Compliance Hero

Compliance Around the World

Bringing digital trust through audits and accreditations, independently vetted to the highest international standards.

Optional heading that can be visually hidden

Compliance Accreditations

As a leader in encryption and trusted identity, and their fully owned subsidiary QuoVadis maintain a suite of accreditations and independent audits. Protect your systems and users with the highest levels of assurance, including certification as a Qualified Trust Service Provider (TSP) under ETSI standards. 

Audit Compliance Blade

Global Accreditations

SOC 2 Type II

  • Trust Service Requirements: Detail operational effectiveness of systems to manage customer data based on five “trust service principles”—security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.
  • Audit Description: Annual audits to ensure data is securely managed to protect the interests of organizations and clients.
  • Product/Platform: DNSTrust
  • Supervisory Authority: American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
  • Accreditation Body/Auditor: A-Lign (DNSME)
  • Geographical Applicability: Global

Certification Image 1

SOC 2 Type II / Type III

  • Trust Service Requirements: Detail operational effectiveness of systems to manage customer data based on five “trust service principles”—security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.
  • Audit Description: Annual audits to ensure data is securely managed to protect the interests of organizations and clients. SOC 2 replaces legacy SAS 70 reporting standard.
  • Product/Platform: CertCentral, ONE, PKI Platform 8
  • Supervisory Authority: American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
  • Accreditation Body/Auditor: BDO ()
  • Geographical Applicability: Global

WebTrust Program for Certification Authorities (CAs)

  • Trust Service Requirements: Adequacy and effectiveness of controls deployed by a Certification Authority (CA).
  • Audit Description: Annual audit performed on 's key management cycle management authority (CA) business practices disclosures and CA environmental controls supporting public and managed PKI CA services.
  • Product/Platform:CertCentral, ONE, PKI Platform 8, MPKI 7 (Japan)
  • Supervisory Authority: Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada).
  • Accreditation Body/Auditor: BDO
  • Geographical Applicability: Global

WebTrust for Network Security

  • Trust Service Requirements: CA/B Forum "Network and Certificate Systems Security Requirements"
  • Audit Description: Annual audit performed on ’s Network and Certificate Systems Security compliance against the CA/B Forum Baseline Network Security Requirements.
  • Product/Platform:CertCentral, ONE, PKI Platform 8, TrustLink (QuoVadis Legacy) supporting CA infrastructure.
  • Supervisory Authority: CPA Canada
  • Accreditation Body/Auditor: BDO
  • Geographical Applicability: Global

WebTrust for Baseline Requirements

  • Trust Service Requirements: CA/B Forum “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly Trusted Certificates.”
  • Audit Description: Annual audit performed on ’s key management cycle management authority (CA) business practices disclosures and CA environmental controls supporting public and managed PKI CA services.
  • Product/Platform: CertCentral, PKI Platform 8 (for S/MIME in 2024)
  • Supervisory Authority: CPA Canada
  • Accreditation Body/Auditor: BDO
  • Geographical Applicability: Global

WebTrust for Extended Validation

  • Trust Service Requirements: CA/B Forum “Guidelines for the Issuance and Management of EV Certificates.”
  • Audit Description: Annual audit performed on ’s key management cycle management authority (CA) business practices disclosures and CA environmental controls supporting public and managed PKI CA services.
  • Product/Platform: CertCentral
  • Supervisory Authority: CPA Canada
  • Accreditation Body/Auditor: BDO
  • Geographical Applicability: Global

WebTrust for Code Signing

  • Trust Service Requirements: Code Signing Working Group’s Minimum Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly Trusted Code Signing Certificates.
  • Audit Description: Annual audit performed on ’s key management cycle management authority (CA) business practices disclosures and CA environmental controls supporting public and managed PKI CA services.
  • Product/Platform: ONE Software Trust Manager (STM)
  • Supervisory Authority: CPA Canada
  • Accreditation Body/Auditor: BDO
  • Geographical Applicability: Global

WebTrust for S/MIME

  • Trust Service Requirements: CA/B Forum “Guidelines for the Issuance and Management of S/MIME Certificates.”
  • Audit Description:Annual audit performed on ’s key management cycle management authority (CA) business practices disclosures and CA environmental controls supporting public and managed PKI CA services.
  • Product/Platform: CertCentral (EU), TrustLink (QuoVadis legacy)
  • SupervisoryAuthority: CPA Canada
  • AccreditationBody/Auditor: EY
  • GeographicalApplicability: Global

WebTrust for VMC

  • Trust Service Requirements: Based on the Minimum Security Requirements for the Issuance of Verified Mark Certificates.
  • Audit Description: Annual audit performed on ’s issuance of Verified Mark Certificates.
  • Product/Platform: CertCentral
  • Supervisory Authority: CPA Canada
  • Accreditation Body/Auditor: BDO
  • Geographical Applicability: Global

Certification Image 7

WebTrust for AATL

  • Trust Service Requirements: Adobe Approved Trust List program, which verifies digital signatures in PDF documents that can be traced back to high-assurance, trustworthy certificates trusted by Acrobat and Reader.
  • Audit Description: Annual audit performed on ’s issuance of Qualified Certificates.
  • Product/Platform: CertCentral, PKI Platform 8
  • Supervisory Authority: CPA Canada
  • Accreditation Body/Auditor: BDO

Certification Image 8

WebTrust for Matter

  • Trust Service Requirements: Adequacy and effectiveness of controls deployed by a Certification Authority (CA).
  • Audit Description: Annual audit performed on ’s key management cycle management authority (CA) business practices disclosures and CA environmental controls supporting private and matter PKI CA services.
  • Product/Platform: ONE IoT Trust Manager (IoT)
  • Supervisory Authority: Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada)
  • Accreditation Body/Auditor: BDO
  • Geographical Applicability: Global

US Accreditations

Federal PKI Policy Authority

  • Trust Service Requirements: NIST SP800-53, which specifies security controls for information systems supporting the executive agencies of the U.S. federal government. Adherence to Common Policy.
  • Audit Description: Annual audit of services, procedures, and practices as part of the identity federation agreement with the U.S. Government to provide services.
  • Product/Platform: Direct
  • Supervisory Authority: Federal Public Key Infrastructure Policy Authority (FPKIPA)
  • Accreditation Body/Auditor: Federal Public Key Infrastructure Policy Authority (FPKIPA)
  • Geographical Applicability: United States

DirectTrust™ Accreditation Program for Certificate Authorities (CAs)

  • Trust Service Requirements: Direct Standard™ and requirements of the DirectTrust Security and Trust framework.
  • Audit Description: Biennial audit of CA services against a series of technical, physical, and operational criteria.
  • Product/Platform: Direct
  • Supervisory Authority: DirectTrust
  • Accreditation Body/Auditor: DirectTrust
  • Geographical Applicability: United States

DirectTrust™ Accreditation Program for Registration Authorities (RAs)

  • Trust Service Requirements: DirectStandard™ and requirements of the DirectTrust Security and Trust framework.
  • Audit Description: Biennial audit of RA services against a series of technical, physical, and operational criteria.
  • Product/Platform: Direct
  • Supervisory Authority: DirectTrust
  • Accreditation Body/Auditor: DirectTrust
  • Geographical Applicability: United States

Certification Image 11

WebTrust for Certipath

  • Trust Service Requirements: Adequacy and effectiveness of controls deployed by a Certification Authority (CA).
  • Audit Description:Annual audits performed on Certipath’s key management cycle management authority (CA) business practices disclosures and CA environmental controls supporting Certipath public and managed PKI CA services.
  • Product/Platform: PKI Platform 8
  • Supervisory Authority: CPA Canada
  • Accreditation Body/Auditor: BDO
  • Geographical Applicability: Americas

Certification Image 12

WebTrust for DirectTrust

  • Trust Service Requirements: Adequacy and effectiveness of physical controls deployed by a Certification Authority (CA).
  • Audit Description: Annual audit performed on ’s physical management of DirectTrust CA services.
  • Product/Platform: Direct
  • Supervisory Authority: CPA Canada
  • Accreditation Body/Auditor: BDO
  • Geographical Applicability: Americas

Asia Pacific Accreditations

Certification Image 13
ISAE 3402
  • Trust Service Requirements: ISAE 3402, an international assurance standard that describes Service Organization Control (SOC) engagements, which provides assurance to an organization's customer that the service organization has adequate internal controls.
  • Audit Description: Annual audit on internal controls over financial reporting.
  • Product/Platform: ONE Trust Lifecycle Manager (TLM) (Japan), MPKI 7 (Japan)
  • Supervisory Authority: International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB), International Federation of Accountants (IFAC)
  • Accreditation Body/Auditor: BDO Sanyu
  • Geographical Applicability: Japan

ISO 27001
  • Trust Service Requirements: Compliance with ISO 27001 Information Security Management Systems Requirements Specification (formerly known as BS7799-2)
  • Audit Description: Annual audit to evaluate how securely an organization manages and stores its information and data in our Japan Data Center.
  • Product/Platform: ONE Trust Lifecycle Manager (TLM) (Japan), MPKI 7 (Japan)
  • Supervisory Authority: International Organization for Standardization
  • Accreditation Body/Auditor: BDO Sanyu
  • Geographical Applicability: Japan

Gatekeeper Public Key Infrastructure Framework
  • Trust Service Requirements:Digital ID Policy Branch, Gatekeeper PKI Framework v3.1 (research)
  • Audit Description: Annual audit that cover protective security governance, personnel security, information security and physical security.
  • Product/Platform:Gatekeeper (product), MPKI 7 system
  • SupervisoryAuthority: Australian Government Department of Finance
  • AccreditationBody/Auditor: Sekuro
  • GeographicalApplicability: Australia

European Accreditations

Certification Image 16
ZertES Qualified Certification Services Provider
  • Trust Service Requirements: Swiss Law and ETSI standards for Qualified Certification Service Providers (CSP) and Time Stamping Authorities.
  • Audit Description: Annual audit of QuoVadis Trustlink Schweiz AG to ensure conformity with the requirements for Qualified and Regulated Certificates and Qualified Time-Stamps.
  • Product/Platform: TrustLink (QuoVadis legacy), CertCentral/ ONE
  • Supervisory Authority: Swiss Accreditation Service (SAS), Bundesamt für Kommunikation (BAKOM)
  • Accreditation Body/Auditor: KPMG
  • Geographical Applicability: Switzerland

Certification Image 17
Netherlands Qualified Trust Services Provider
  • Trust Service Requirements: ETSI EN 319 411-1, ETSI EN 319 411-2, Regulation (EU) nº 910/2014
  • Audit Description: Annual audit of QuoVadis Trustlink Netherlands BV for accreditation to be a Qualified Trust Services Provider (QTSP), to issue Qualified Certificates for Electronic Signature, Electronic Seal, Website Authentication and Qualified Time-Stamps.
  • Product/Platform: TrustLink (QuoVadis legacy), CertCentral/ ONE
  • Supervisory Authority: RDI
  • Accreditation Body/Auditor: BSI (QuoVadis legacy), TayllorCox ( Europe)
  • Geographical Applicability: Netherlands – but applies across the European Union.

Trust Service Provider (TSP) for PKIoverheid
  • Trust Service Requirements: ETSI EN 319 411-1, ETSI EN 319 411-2, PKIoverheid Program of Requirements standards to issue Qualified Certificates for Electronic Signature, Electronic Seal and Website Authentication under the Staat der Nederlanden Root.
  • Audit Description: Annual audit to maintain accreditation as a TSP for the Dutch government.
  • Product/Platform: TrustLink (QuoVadis legacy), CertCentral/ ONE
  • Supervisory Authority: Logius Policy Management Authority for PKIoverheid
  • Accreditation Body/Auditor: BSI (QuoVadis legacy), TayllorCox ( Europe)
  • Geographical Applicability: Netherlands

Certification Image 19
Belgium Qualified Trust Services Provider
  • Trust Service Requirements: ETSI EN 319 411-1, ETSI EN 319 411-2, Regulation (EU) nº 910/2014
  • Audit Description: Annual audit of Europe Belgium BV for accreditation to be a Qualified Trust Services Provider (QTSP), to issue Qualified Certificates for Electronic Signature and Electronic Seal.
  • Product/Platform: TrustLink (QuoVadis legacy), CertCentral/ ONE
  • Supervisory Authority: Belgian FPS Economy - Quality and Safety
  • Accreditation Body/Auditor: BSI (QuoVadis legacy), TayllorCox ( Europe)
  • Geographical Applicability: Belgium – but applies across the European Union.