CyberTrust

CyberTrust
Company typeSecurity services company
IndustryInformation security
Predecessor
  • TruSecure
  • BeTrusted
FoundedNovember 2004 (formed by merger)
FateAcquired
SuccessorVerizon Business (2007)
HeadquartersVirginia, United States
ProductsSecurity services; digital certificates; PKI; SSL certificates
ParentVerizon Business (from 2007)

CyberTrust was a security services company formed in Virginia in November 2004 from the merger of TruSecure and Betrusted. Betrusted previously acquired GTE Cybertrust. Cybertrust acquired a large stake in Ubizen, a European security services firm based in Belgium, to become one of the largest information security firms in the world. It was acquired by Verizon Business in 2007. In 2015, the CyberTrust root certificates were acquired by DigiCert, Inc., a leading global Certificate Authority (CA) and provider of trusted identity and authentication services.