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Why Choose GlobalSign?
GlobalSign was established over 10 years ago as one of the world’s first CA and SSL providers. With an initial focus in Europe, GlobalSign soon expanded its operations to serve a worldwide customer base. Throughout its years, a number of increasingly prestige companies have invested in GlobalSign: Belgian Chambers, Ubizen, ING Bank and Vodafone - helping sculpt the global organization and industry leading technology GlobalSign customers and partners benefit from today.
In October 2006, GlobalSign was acquired by GMO Internet Group (TSE: 9449) from CyberTrust and welcomed on board a brand new Management Team comprising of some of the most experienced and respected talent in the digital certificate market - with senior staff responsible for establishing and operating a number of wide reaching Certification Authority services, including those from GeoTrust Europe, GeoTrust Japan, RapidSSL.com, CyberTrust and Comodo. GlobalSign is proud to announce it is now entering a new age of direction, innovation and customer focus.
 History of GlobalSign and the recent changes in the market
GlobalSign has been providing trusted services for over 10 years. And now, with the new GlobalSign UK office and staff previously co-founding and operating GeoTrust Europe and RapidSSL.com, and the new GlobalSign Japan office and staff previously co-founding and operating GeoTrust Japan (prior to VeriSign acquiring GeoTrust Inc), GlobalSign is logically positioned as the ONLY alternative to the VeriSign group of companies.
GlobalSign has the experience, the know-how and the understanding of enterprise and reseller channel needs. This unique combination of experience, talent and vision, allows GlobalSign to offer itself as the alternative SSL Provider in what is now a single player market. |
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GlobalSign is the first SSL Provider to offer a simplified range of SSL Certificates – fitting neatly into the three newly defined SSL classes of Domain Validation (DV) issued in 4 minutes or less, Extended Validation (EV) activating the Green address bars on high security browsers, and Organization Validation (OV). By taking its 10 years of experience in delivering trusted SSL solutions, GlobalSign has pioneered a simple approach to the three classes of SSL the market has seen emerge over recent months.
Other SSL Providers favor using complex product naming and classifications, with basic features being used to differentiate otherwise identical products. GlobalSign bucks this trend by adopting simple product naming and assigning feature sets as options within each product class. This unique approach is designed to eliminate the time consuming and frustrating “which certificate do I need” issues faced by customers evaluating SSL vendor solutions.
In depth consultation with customers, resellers and enterprises, and months of ground-up development have gone into the newly designed GlobalSign management systems. The new GlobalSign Certificate Center provides customers with the fastest and easiest way to issue digital certificates for their own use, for their customer's use or for widespread enterprise and departmental use. The system adopts a SaaS (software as service) philosophy, giving access to customers via a web portal or XML based API to allow for full integration with control panels, purchasing systems or bespoke internal management processes. GlobalSign is also the first SSL Provider to introduce DataCenter SSL (per server licensing model) and NonIP SSL (hosted IP and SSL on a hardware security module).
| As a WebTrust audited SSL Provider established in 1996 and accredited since 2002, GlobalSign
has alliances and partnerships with all the major Operating System
and Browser vendors to ensure maximum support for its range of SSL
Certificates. All major browsers, applications and mobile devices inherently trust and support GlobalSign digital certificates. This means your customers will not receive "untrusted" alerts and
popups that can be a problem when using certificates issued by the newer, or untrusted, SSL Providers. Garner over 10 years of GlobalSign investment in partnerships and Root CA Certificate acceptance strategy, and join over 20 million other digital certificates that rely on the public trust of the GlobalSign Root CA Certificates. |
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Once your SSL Certificate is issued, you can display the Secure Site by GlobalSign site seal. When clicked this seal allows visitors to view your authenticated profile, improving trust in who you are. GlobalSign Site Seals are dynamically delivered via a three tier redundant site seal server system. Unlike some of our competitors who have suffered widely reported Site Seal outages that dramatically affect the loading of a web page, pages displaying GlobalSign Site Seals will not be affected in the unlikely event that the site seal servers suffer temporary interruption.
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Get the most from older browsers -
128 bit "step-up" SGC SSL
SGC is a secure server SSL Certificate which "enhances"
SSL technology to deliver strong (128-bit) encryption during an
internet browsing session between the web server and the older legacy
Microsoft browsers (version 4.723612.1713 and above), without SGC these older browsers are forced to connect using weak 40 bit encryption. SGC addresses
the need for additional security in especially sensitive electronic
transactions or communications, and are currently available to banks,
financial institutions, insurance companies, health and medical
organisations, online merchants where support for strong encryption
levels in legacy Microsoft browsers is essential. Only GlobalSign and VeriSign can provide SGC enabled certificates that provide the highest levels of browser recognition and step up encryption strengths, but ONLY GlobalSign provides SGC free of charge!
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Typically our competition will issue certificates with only a single license, and additional licenses must be bought at a premium. To help you meet your budget GlobalSign certificates are provided with 3 server licenses included in the standard price. This allows you to easily secure your primary server, a secondary or backup server and a load balancer without any further costs. Additional licenses can be purchased in blocks of 3 for the industry's most competitive server licensing rates.
Web site visitors and customers expect to see the padlock when submitting ANY kind of data - whether it be payment details, logins / password or other Internet based transactions. SSL Certificates activate the secure "padlock" using https and ensure your customers and visitors are assured their transactions and data sent via the Internet are secured by using the strongest encryption available. Having been issuing SSL for over 10 years we are expert in assisting customers with requirements (large or small), scalable solutions and trouble-shooting costly implementation issues.
  
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