Abstract:
Systems and methods for determining trust when interacting with online resources are described, including requesting a secure connection with an online resource; receiving a certificate from the online resource, wherein the certificate is signed by a chain of at least one certificate authority (CA) with the last CA in the chain being a root CA; determining that the root CA is an entity root CA without determining whether the root CA is a third-party root CA, wherein the entity root CA is associated with an entity certificate issued to an entity and the entity is associated with a score; determining whether the score is equal to or greater than a threshold; and, if the score is equal to or greater than the threshold, establishing the secure connection with the online resource.