WISeKey today announced strong support from its Global Trusted Affiliate Network including several new countries.

WISeKey’s Global Affiliate Network consists of an expanding group of international service providers operational at national level. These affiliates utilize WISeKey common technology, products, operating practices and trusted security infrastructures to deliver interoperable trust services over the Internet.
New WISeKey affiliates are now in process to be established in Mexico, Turkey, Monaco, Germany, Venezuela, Lebanon, Morocco, France, Brazil, Peru, UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Benelux, Italy, Chile, Mexico, USA, Colombia, Sweden, Hungary, Gabon, Angola and China.

WISeKey has entered the mass market with a solution with universal appeal distributed by a global network of trusted affiliates.

"Our network of global trusted affiliates includes now one of the most distribute affiliated network on the Internet including governments agencies, national leading telecommunications companies and e-commerce service providers," said Carlos Moreira, Chairman and CEO, WISeKey.
"By combining their national expertise, powerful brands and strong customer relationships with our Trusted Security technologies and services, we are well positioned to enable a wide range of trusted secure applications on a global basis."

WISeKey is one of the world’s leading provider of electronic identity (e-ID) trust services. E-Ids’ are used for securing transactions, access to physical and virtual environments and for providing non-reputable identification (identity cards). WISeKey has an established record of expertise in implementing complex e-security projects. It uses its Swiss roots to provide assurance as a trusted third party through adhering to Switzerland 's strict privacy and confidentiality laws and high quality standards.

WISeKey offers to its affiliates a broad array of own developed products and services ranging from the Managed to Extended Trust Model PKI, CertifyID BlackBox, CetifyID Guardian XM, WISeSign PDF, CertifyID OCSP Server, CertifyID CRL Manager, CertifyID Time Stamp Server as well as full-fledged PKI implementation and security consulting including partner products and services such as but not limited to biometric smart cards and USB storage, physical and virtual access control.

Currently WISeKey has operational centers in Geneva & Zurich, Switzerland, Syracuse, New York USA , Bilbao, Spain, Sofia Bulgaria and India with 3 high security bunkers in Switzerland, Spain and USA.

The WISeKey position as leader on National Identification Systems (NIS) has put WISeKey in a very strategic position for this market, which represents approximately US$4.8 billion dollars globally and should reach US$10.7 billion by 2007. In Europe, more than 120 billion Euros have already been invested in the public sector in this area (government, police, Lisbon agenda, etc.).

In order to facilitate this expansion and because “trust” is local, WISeKey has opened WISeKey Affiliate opportunities for several territories. WISeKey is currently recognized as the best trust model in the world , endorsed by the International Telecommunication Union http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/e-strategies/ecdc/ra/introduction.html able to deploy a security infrastructure based on national Roots interoperating and recognized amongst them via a global ROOT process. The national Roots are essential to deploy eIDs infrastructure as they ensure government’s total control of their national identification process and sovereignty. It also allows the possibility to enable compatibility between different national eIDs in a similar way that a national passport is recognized by other countries in order to allow citizens to travel around the world. Because the WISeKey brand is a very valuable commodity, the Affiliate seeks to deploy WISeKey in markets worldwide.