Owning & Operating a Trust Centre
Most government related or national PKI projects require a Trust Centre [1]. For any computer room or data centre to become a Trust Centre, it must comply with certain standards [2]. Some of these also require that the Trust Centre be certified [3].
The C-A-S-T methodology was pioneered by Digi-Sign in 2004 after many years of developing and deploying CAs around the world and follows such information security standards as ISO 27001 (previously BS 7799-2, BS 7799, BS 7799 Part 2), 93/1999/EC [4], ETSI 101 456, HIPAA, Sarbanes Oxley, SB 1386, Gramm-Leach Bliley, EAL, ETSI, CWA, ICAO for MRTD and many others.
Alternative Trust Centre Options
You could reduce the financial commitment of owning your own Trust Centre by becoming a Trusted Services Providers [TSP] [5]. As a TSP you can reduce the overall costs [6] whilst still owning a complete Digi-CA™ [7] system infrastructure. Your personnel will operate, manage and administer it whilst also managing the sales and marketing of the Trust Centre, in co-operation with Digi-Sign.
If this level of commitment is not what you want to consider, then the CSP [1] is another Partner Programme: