Bermuda-based QuoVadis has announced the release of a new generation of its Trust/Link service which allows organisations to manage the full life-cycle of their digital certificates, from sign-up to revocation or renewal in real time.

Trust/Link's web-based control panel allows organisations to maintain oversight, while providing flexibility to meet the local business needs of different internal groups whether they require SSL for their websites, or are deploying digital certificates to end users for access control, secure email, encryption, or digital signatures. Carl Rosenast, managing director of QuoVadis in Switzerland, said: "QuoVadis Trust/Link provides the strength and features of a custom PKI in a managed service that can be rapidly customised for both small projects as well as huge enterprise roll-outs such as our own support for the SuisseID national e-ID.

"Managing digital certificates can be a struggle for organisations with diverse operations. Companies using Trust/Link have dependable costs as well as comfort that certificates can be rapidly issued or renewed, even as personnel change over time." Using Trust/Link, an organisation can create multiple sub-accounts for different business units or projects, each assigned with different certificate types as well as custom request and approval processes. In addition, organisations may delegate control to unlimited administrators whose views into the system are tailored to their roles and assignments, enabling work balancing or segregation of duties.

For each Trust/Link account, QuoVadis pre-validates the most commonly domains and corporate details allowing straight-through processing by administrators.

A live dashboard highlights all pending activity for each administrator, and the service provides an array of customisable notifications and forms for important events. Trust/Link also provides detailed reporting tools, including searchable audit logs by certificate or user. An optional secure web services component is available for organisations wishing to integrate QuoVadis certificates in their own applications.

Major users of Trust/Link include Credit Suisse, The Capita Group, Galenica, Standard Bank, the SWITCH Foundation, and other multinationals and public sector bodies.