Glossary of Compliance

Compliance Glossary

Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.

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Identity Certificate

A digital certificate refers to an electronic “password” that allows a person or an organization to share data securely over the web on the public key infrastructure (PKI). Digital Certificate is also called an identity certificate or a public key certificate.

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