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Latest News from tScheme [05.07.2011]
[05.07.2011] BT, one of tScheme’s founding members and one of the earliest Approved Trust Service Providers, has now received Approval for another of their services - Managed Secure Messaging used to support the Euroclear CCI. Click here for further details.
[02.06.2011] Congratulations to the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) for the Grant of Approval to both of their services - the Police PKI Root CA and the IAM Central Services CA. Click here for further details.
[11.03.2011] The Defence Root CA operated by the UK’s Ministry of Defence has now completed the tScheme Approval process and is now an Approved Service. Click here for further details.
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What does the tScheme mark represent?
People and organisations need to have trust in e-Commerce. To this end, new commercial security services, generally called "trust services", are being introduced to help defend against fraud and loss of privacy. So we all need to be confident that these Trust Service Providers, or TSPs, will deliver the services they claim to offer honestly and expertly.
tScheme is the independent, non-profit making, industry led body set up to approve these services and provide that confidence. Membership of tScheme is now actively encouraged across all interested sectors of UK industry, and a broad range of organisations are already represented and contributing to our development. Contributions from representatives of the end user community who need to rely on Trust services are particularly welcome.
As awareness of e-security grows then an increasing number of end users and relying parties are looking for extra assurance before committing to online transactions. In particular they will look for a web seal to show that a website operates to particular standards. In the same way, the tScheme Mark acts as a trust seal to show that the service provider is following best practice.
When a trust service carries the tScheme mark, you can be secure in the knowledge that:
- the service has been thoroughly evaluated against rigorous criteria by independent experts;
- the service provider has agreed to keep to these criteria;
- the service provider subscribes to the tScheme Code of Conduct;
- the service provider has agreed to act promptly and fairly to remedy faults.
For each service, tScheme approval is regularly reviewed and may be withdrawn.
For further information, or to discuss membership, please contact tScheme
