Entrust acquiring Business Signatures for $50M

Online authentication and fraud monitoring are a good match, so Entrust is buying Business Signatures for $50 million. Entrust's IdentityGuard system will link with Business Signatures' software called Zero Trust, which features real-time processing. RSA (now EMC) and VeriSign also recently bought anti-fraud firms. The trend is happening because of upcoming federal regulations.

For more on Entrust:
- read this InfoWorld article

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