Entrust keeps the world moving safely by enabling trusted identities, payments and data protection

Today more than ever, people demand seamless, secure experiences, whether they’re crossing borders, making a purchase, accessing e-government services or logging into corporate networks. Entrust, a company which was founded in 1994 and headquartered in Minneapolis, offers an unmatched breadth of digital security and credential issuance solutions at the very heart of all these interactions. 

The organization’s identity solutions enable the trusted access needed to keep commerce, citizens, and data moving safely whilst its payment solutions enable the secure transactions and payment products that are the lifeblood of global commerce. Additionally, its data protection solutions keep enterprises, consumers, governments, citizens, and their data secure, in motion and at rest, with high assurance security through trusted identities, applied cryptography and advanced technology.

To date, Entrust has more than 2,500 employees spanning across the globe, a network of global partners, and serves customers in over 150 countries.

To share further insights on the digital identity solutions market, including the major factors driving growth for this segment which analysts predict is set to grow from USD 23.3 Billion in 2021 to USD49.5 billion by 2026, we spoke to Angus McDougall, Regional Vice President, Asia Pacific & Japan at Entrust.

Angus shares on:

• Entrust’s products and solutions offerings including testimonies of how the organization is helping its customer thrive.
• Key takeaways from Entrust’s recent Great Payments Disruption study and how consumer behavior towards payment has evolved through time.
• The challenges faced by financial institutions in regards to security and trust.
• How Covid-19 and the rise in hybrid working environments is shaping the way CIOs think now vs pre-pandemic, including security considerations which they have to juggle in relation to this.
• The importance of encryption, customer data protection as well as the pickup rate for encryption in the Asia Pacific region.
• Entrust’s key growth areas and plans for 2022.