Mission and Vision

WISeKey is a privately-owned company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The Company uses Public Key Infrastructure (“PKI”) and other complementary technologies to provide identity security in accordance with its unique distributed trust network model.

In addition to its online trust model, it has developed electronic identification technologies to provide identification, authentication and encryption products and services that allow public and private organizations to identify individuals and devices and engage in safe, secure and confidential electronic communications and transactions.

These products are priced at levels that make them affordable to organizations of all sizes unlike the products of its main competitors. PKI technology is a combination of software, encryption technologies, processes and services that enable an organization to secure its communications and transactions by effectively identifying and authenticating individuals and devices.

Through its development of a geopolitical, neutral, decentralized and globally accessible PKI infrastructure, WISeKey has positioned itself to deliver neutral and high-level electronic security at an affordable price.

Unlike most current e-security methods, WISeKey offers a virtually fail-safe infrastructure that not only enables governments and enterprises to establish and maintain their own identity management infrastructures to issue and manage secure electronic identities, but also provides them with other related electronic identification methods such as biometrics.

WISeKey uses as its core identity system the international standard X.509, a standard which is managed by the International Telecommunication Union. The X.509 standard is widely recognized and has been incorporated into all sorts of devices and software including today’s Web browsers, mobile phones, operating systems and virtually all information technology environments that have reached a certain level of maturity.

As a result of its positioning, product offering and trust model, WISeKey has established partnerships with public and private sector organizations which include Microsoft, the International Telecommunication Union, OASIS, Liberty Alliance, Hewlett Packard, the World Trade Organization, the International Organization for Migration, the Clinton Global Initiative, the International Criminal Court in the Hague, to name a few. It has also been the initiator of important projects such as Youtourist.Net with the UN World Tourism Organization and the Geneva Security Forum, with the Government of Geneva, Switzerland.