Digicert, Inc.

Symnatec Corporation

Samir Kumar Rakshit

Avesta Hojjati

Systems and methods for determining digital trust of a device and a user for access permission include monitoring a client device and its access to a network and to resources connected to the network; analyzing behavior-based factors and posture-based factors to determine a digital trust rating at a given time for the client device, wherein the posture-based factors include a rating of certificates associated with the client device and a rating of a Domain Name System (DNS) server associated with the client device; and providing the digital trust rating at the given time for the client device for use in access permission of the client device to the network and/or to the resources.

Determining digital trust of a client device and user for access permission

Methods and apparatuses for authenticating a secure sockets layer certificate (SSL) certificate are described herein. The methods include receiving the SSL certificate associated with a website, identifying a chain of trust associated with the SSL certificate, transmitting, to a security manager, a validation request based on the SSL certificate and a certificate in the chain of trust, receiving a validation response from the security manager, and presenting an indication of trustworthiness, to a user, based on the validation response. The apparatuses are provided to implement the methods.

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Bengaluru, India

Samir Kumar Rakshit