The Netherlands Ministry of Defence Cross-Certifies with CertiPath's Trusted PKI Bridge

HERNDON, Va., Nov. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CertiPath, the trusted authority for high assurance identities, announced that the Netherlands Ministry of Defence (MoD) has successfully cross-certified to the CertiPath Bridge.  This marks the first time a bridge has successfully supported high-assurance identity credentials bi-directionally across multiple nations.  This cross-certification securely links the Netherlands MoD with the U.S. Federal Bridge (FBCA), commercial aerospace and defense (A&D) contractors like Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman and key U.S. Government agencies, including the Department of Defense.  

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"Cyber security is an important part of the Netherlands MoD policy and it requires a high level of public and private cooperation as well as a strong coordination," said Sander Schnitger, Major General with the Netherlands MoD and recently appointed Cyber General. "Trust is a basic and essential ingredient of all cooperation and collaboration, which is why we have cross-certified with CertiPath."  

The addition of the Netherlands MoD into the CertiPath trust fabric will have an immediate positive economic impact on the Netherlands' A&D sector. High-assurance identity credentials are expected to proliferate quickly throughout the Netherlands' supplier base – providing a security advantage to U.S. defense prime contractors who choose to subcontract with them.  

The CertiPath Bridge helps to enable participating organizations to collaborate and share information on a global basis with the confidence that their high-value logical and physical assets are protected.  As a member of the CertiPath community, the Netherlands MoD has eliminated the expense of issuing project-specific credentials for every new customer, supplier, or partner – and significantly reduced the risk of fraud and information theft.

"We've managed to bridge two sovereign policy domains, the United States and the Netherlands, while supporting multiple levels of identity assurance," said Jeff Nigriny, CEO of CertiPath. "The Netherlands MoD is the second government entity that has been fully bi-directionally cross-certified to the CertiPath Bridge and it's truly paving the way for future cross-certifications that will increase interoperability on a global scale."

About CertiPath

CertiPath is the trusted authority for interoperable identities for collaboration in the aerospace and defense industry. Advancing the use of PKI-based high assurance credentials for both physical and logical access control, CertiPath tears down the burdensome and costly company, employee and program-centric approaches to identity assurance.

CertiPath is trusted by more than four million public and private sector users and leverages a turnkey approach that delivers robust, cost-effective and proven physical and logical asset protection. Today, organizations in the U.S., U.K. and Europe including Boeing, BAE Systems, Citibank N.A., EADS, Exostar, HID Global, Lockheed Martin, Northrop-Grumman, Raytheon, SITA and the U.S. Federal Bridge (FBCA) are members of this fast-growing community. For more information, visit CertiPath on the web at http://www.certipath.com.

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SOURCE CertiPath

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