A Local Registration Authority (LRA) is the person authorized by their company and the Certificate Authority (FundSERV) to provide certificate lifecycle management. All companies who want to use IDentity services or features must have an LRA.

An LRA has several important duties:

• issue digital certificates to users
  
  
• verify users' identities
  
  
• train users on IDentity software
  
  
• recover users
  
  
• disable users
  
  
• move users
  
  
• retrieve users
  
  
• delete users
  
  
• assign company codes
  
  
• enable FUNDcom access for users
  
  
• manage certificates using Certificate Management
  
  
• act as the liaison to IDentity (FundSERV)

LRAs must be trusted individuals because they are in total control of the information about their subscribers. However, the LRA has no advantage or disadvantage when using IDentity applications and security features. The difference between an LRA and a subscriber is that an LRA is a standard user who can create a subscriber while a subscriber is a standard user only.

Learn how to become an LRA by contacting FundSERV's Technical Support at 416-362-7378 or tech@fundserv.com.

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