COMPLIANCE ASSESSMENT REPORTING SERVICE

摘要

Disclosed herein is a method for providing assurance information regardin g a business entity to a customer for an electronic transaction. The method comprises submitting a compliance token to a certificate authority as part o f a certificate signing request wherein the compliance token comprises an as sessment result describing the business entity's level of compliance with an assurance policy, as determined by an assessor, receiving an assurance cert ificate from the certificate authority, wherein the certificate includes the compliance token, and providing the assurance certificate to a customer in order to provide security information to the customer as part of an electron ic transaction.