Pki Consortium, Inc.

What Pki Consortium, Inc. does

PKI Consortium, Inc. is a 501(c)(6) non-profit business league registered in Utah that operates as a neutral, community-led forum for advancing Public Key Infrastructure standards. The consortium convenes 419 member organizations and approximately 1,000 representatives across cybersecurity vendors (Keyfactor, Entrust, DigiCert, Sectigo), technology companies (Microsoft, IBM, SAP, Dell), financial institutions (Bank of America, Visa, Citi, Credit Suisse, TD), governments (FPKI, Dutch Ministry of Defence), and other sectors, coordinating standards work through six active working groups covering Post-Quantum Cryptography, Cryptographic Modules, the PKI Maturity Model, Training and Certification, Certificate Authorities, and CBOM Profiles.

Its technical outputs are open standards artifacts rather than commercial products. These include the PKI Maturity Model (PKIMM) and the newly introduced Post-Quantum Cryptography Maturity Model (PQCMM), CBOM Profiles mapped to SPDX and CycloneDX, a Remote Key Attestation specification for hardware cryptographic modules, an Address Information Quality Linter, a curated List of Trust Lists, and an OID Registry maintained under IANA Private Enterprise Number 64279. The consortium also operates annual Post-Quantum Cryptography Conferences that have rotated across Austin, Kuala Lumpur, and Amsterdam.

PKI Consortium's business model is freemium and donation-funded. Membership is free, events are ticketed at no cost, and operations are sustained through voluntary donations and corporate sponsorships, with one explicit reference point of $500 underwriting a free conference seat. Distribution is open via pkic.org and GitHub repositories, and the organization engages in mutual partnerships with standards bodies including NIST, W3C, ISO, IEEE, SPDX, and CycloneDX.

Name

Pki Consortium, Inc.

Legal name

PKI Consortium, Inc.

Website

https://pkic.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

PKI Consortium, Inc. is a Utah-registered 501(c)(6) non-profit that convenes 419 member organizations across cybersecurity, government, finance, and technology to advance Public Key Infrastructure standards through free working groups, maturity models, and annual post-quantum cryptography conferences, funded by voluntary donations and sponsorships.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industry Consortium Services / PKI Standards Collaboration

NAICS

Business Associations (81391)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Device Identity & Certificate-Based Authentication (PKI) (BPAMAEAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Quantum-Safe PKI, Key Management & HSMs (HDAGAGAE), Quantum-Safe Cryptographic Algorithms & Protocols (PQC) (HDAGAGAC)

Keywords

• Industry consortium activities
• PKI working groups
• Cryptographic standards
• Nonprofit membership association
• Post-quantum cryptography

Headquarters

HQ city

South Jordan

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Membership Dues: Membership is free. The consortium does not charge membership fees or ticket prices.
2. Donations and Sponsorships: The consortium relies on voluntary donations and sponsors to fund operations and keep events free. $500 keeps one seat free at events.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

PKI Consortium runs industry working groups that develop practitioner guidance, maturity models (PKIMM, PQCMM), the CBOM profile, trust lists, and the OID Registry for the public key infrastructure ecosystem. It organizes biannual member conferences (such as European PKI and PKI Post-Quantum) and produces open-source tooling such as the Address Information Quality Linter and Remote Key Attestation software. Membership is free and open to organizations that want to participate in PKI and post-quantum cryptography collaboration.

Product overview

Pki Consortium, Inc. is a non-profit membership consortium (501(c)(6) organization) focused on advancing Public Key Infrastructure standards and practices. The consortium does not offer commercial products but rather facilitates collaboration through working groups, events, and industry initiatives. Its primary offerings include working groups (PQC, CM, PKIMM, TCWG, CA, CBOM), industry events (Post-Quantum Cryptography Conferences), and collaborative projects such as the PKI Maturity Model, CBOM Profiles, Remote Key Attestation, and Trust List curation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• PKIMM (PKI Maturity Model) A maturity model published by the PKI Consortium CM working group to help organizations benchmark their certificate management processes.
• PQCMM (Post-Quantum Cryptography Maturity Model) A maturity model published by the PQC working group to help organizations assess their readiness for migration to post-quantum cryptography.
• CBOM Profile A CycloneDX-based cryptographic bill-of-materials profile specification published by the CBOM working group for inventorying cryptographic assets.
• Trust Lists Documentation Working-group documentation on trust list creation, EU TSL procedures, and trusted-list interoperability maintained by the TCWG.
• OID Registry An online registry of object identifiers (OIDs) used in PKI and digital certificate ecosystems, maintained by the consortium.
• Address Information Quality Linter An open-source linter tool, available via GitHub, that validates address information quality in PKI certificate subject data.
• Remote Key Attestation Tool A tool produced by the consortium to support remote key attestation scenarios for PKI deployments.
• European PKI Member Conference A biannual in-person member conference organized by the consortium for the European PKI community.
• PKI Post-Quantum Member Conference A biannual in-person member conference focused on post-quantum cryptography, organized by the consortium.

Named customers18 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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No

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Feature7 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered moderate, minor and core.

• W3CmoderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe PKI Consortium engages with W3C on standards development, particularly in decentralized identity and cryptographic standards. Member organizations participate in W3C standardization efforts.
• ISOmoderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe consortium collaborates with ISO on standards frameworks relevant to PKI and cryptography through member participation.
• IEEEmoderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerPKI Consortium members engage with IEEE on standards development for cryptographic technologies and digital identity.
• Universal Postal UnionminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with the UN specialized agency to validate address data for certificate quality improvement projects.
• NISTcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference features speakers from NIST, and the consortium aligns its PQC work with NIST standards and guidelines.
• SPDX CommunitymoderateTechnology or IntegrationCBOM Profiles working group develops methodology that maps onto SPDX, CycloneDX, and other BOM standards.
• CycloneDXmoderateTechnology or IntegrationCBOM Profiles working group develops methodology compatible with CycloneDX SBOM standards.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals): A larger membership organization for a related trust-and-compliance discipline (privacy), offering training, certifications, and policy engagement. Comparable as a non-profit membership association that monetizes professional development adjacent to PKI/policy work.
• OASIS: A broader standards consortium producing open-source standards across security, IoT, and identity (e.g., SAML, KMIP). Comparable governance and member-led structure but with a much wider standards portfolio than PKI Consortium's PKI/PQC focus.

Direct peers

• Cloud Security Alliance: A non-profit industry consortium that convenes vendors, enterprises, and government bodies to develop security standards, frameworks, and certifications — directly analogous to PKI Consortium's role in PKI/PQC. Both rely on member contributions, working groups, and free participation to drive standards output.
• Internet Security Research Group (ISRG): A non-profit (operator of Let's Encrypt) that drives open, free PKI adoption and related tooling. Comparable as a mission-driven PKI-focused non-profit, though more product-oriented (operating a public CA) than pure standards work.
• CA/Browser Forum: A consortium of certificate authorities and browser vendors that sets binding baseline requirements for publicly trusted SSL/TLS certificates. It is the most direct functional peer of PKI Consortium's CA Working Group, sharing the member-led standards-development model.
• Kantara Initiative: A non-profit industry organization focused on digital identity, identity assurance, and trust frameworks. Comparable as a member-driven consortium producing identity-related standards and certification programs in the same trust ecosystem as PKI Consortium.
• Trusted Computing Group: An industry consortium that develops vendor-neutral specifications for hardware security modules, TPMs, and roots of trust — the hardware layer that PKI Consortium's Cryptographic Module and Remote Key Attestation work directly engages.
• OpenID Foundation: An open, non-profit international standards organization that develops identity protocols (OpenID Connect, FAPI) used alongside PKI. Comparable as a non-profit, member-driven, vendor-neutral identity-standards body.
• OpenSSF (Linux Foundation): A cross-industry open-source security foundation that organizes working groups to produce supply-chain security standards (e.g., SLSA, Sigstore). Closely parallels PKI Consortium's CBOM Profiles initiative and the SBOM/CBOM ecosystem linkage.
• IDPro: A professional association for the digital identity industry that develops practitioner body-of-knowledge content, training, and certifications. Directly analogous to PKI Consortium's TCWG working group in mission and structure.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgithub.com/orgs/pkic/discussions
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/pki-consortium

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