WebShield is a cybersecurity company developing a decentralized platform for managing digital identities and securing online communications. Its mission is to bring improve trust and privacy on the internet by providing individuals and businesses with the tools to control their own data.
The core of WebShield's service is its "Trust-as-a-Service" platform, which is built on the principles of self-sovereign identity (SSI). It includes a suite of tools for issuing and verifying Verifiable Credentials, which are digital versions of physical documents such as passports and driver's licenses. The platform is designed to be compliant with a wide range of industry standards, including those from the Trust over IP Foundation, the W3C, and the OpenID Foundation. A key use case for WebShield's technology is in securing the Internet of Things (IoT), where it can be used to create a secure and trusted environment for machine-to-machine communication.
WebShield is built on Hedera's distributed ledger technology, which is used to provide an immutable and auditable record of all identity-related transactions.
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