TCS issues two-lakh digital certificates

NEW DELHI: Tata Consultancy Services today issued more than 200,000 digital signature certificates, first Certifying Authority to cross one hundred thousand mark.

Dr M Vidyasagar, executive vice president and head, Advanced Technology Centre at TCS Hyderabad, said, “Until the advent of TCS CA, PKI technology was considered user-unfriendly and difficult to deploy on a widespread geographic scale. Several customers within the government of India and the financial community rely on our products and solutions.” Dr Kamlesh Bajaj, global head – Information Risk Management and Managed Security Services, said, "The 200,000 landmark reflects the level of trust and confidence enjoyed by the TCS Certifying Authority among our subscriber base, Registration Authorities and Subordinate Certifying Authorities under the TCS-CA Trust Network.”

TCS offers a variety of desktop and server-side utilities that make it easy to use the digital certificate technology. TCS CA has provided solutions to all the key and high-value segments of society, such as Internet banking, stock trading, filing income tax returns, and so on, TCS said in a statement. The phenomenal growth in the number of digital certificates has been facilitated by providing user-friendly, best in class technology solutions, such as the TCS Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) called Dhruvam, as well as several associated utilities such as FileSigner, FormSigner.

The TCS Advanced Technology Centre at Hyderabad conceptualized and led the R&D initiative develop Public Key Infrastructure products like digital signatures since 2000. TCS now offers an entire gamut of PKI related products, solutions and services ranging from Digital Signature services, PKI consulting, CA hosting to PKI enabling of applications, which conform to International standards and the Indian Information Technology Act.