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GlobalSign Offers Co-Branded Site Seal as Part of SSL Partner Program

GlobalSign’s most advanced SSL Certificates ensures online customer confidence and security

Portsmouth, NH – 30 April 2009 – GlobalSign (www.globalsign.com), one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in SSL Partner Programs, has today announced a new Site Seal function which will enable GlobalSign’s SSL Partners to display their own co-branded Site Seal on their websites.

GlobalSign currently offers a free Secure Site Seal to all SSL Partners, which helps them to educate web visitors on the security technology they employ to protect against phishing attacks and eavesdropping. The Site Seal clearly shows that the transactions performed on the website are securely encrypted by GlobalSign’s strong SSL technology.

When clicked, the Site Seal profile displays easy to understand website security information and allows organizations to display details such as trading address and telephone number, giving visitors visible, real-time assurance that the website is authentic and protected. 

After consultation and feedback from its rapidly expanding SSL Partner base, the release of the new co-branded Site Seal will enable GlobalSign’s Partners to further raise their security profiles, whilst communicating to their website visitors that they see their customer’s protection as a key priority; opting to partner with a leading Certification Authority providing high quality SSL security solutions.

“With the need for organizations to visibly show a visitor that their website is secure growing at an unprecedented rate, there have been many requests from existing partners to have their own Site Seal” says Katsuo Chujo, Director of Marketing, GlobalSign, Inc. “The new co-branded Site Seal will help to increase the brand recognition of our partners and will also show their commitment to the importance of online security”.

GlobalSign is planning to launch a number of co-branded Site Seals with new and existing partners during 2009.

For more information on the new site seal service, please visit: http://www.globalsign.com/ssl/ssl-certificates/ssl-options/ssl-site-seal.htm

About GlobalSign
Established in 1996 and as a WebTrust accredited public certificate authority, GlobalSign offers publicly trusted SSL, including new Extended Validation SSL Certificates, S/MIME and Code Signing Certificates for use on all Windows platforms including Mobile. The GlobalSign Trusted Root program allows the widely distributed and highly trusted GlobalSign root CA certificates to provide immediate trust for Microsoft CA and other inhouse CA users, thereby eliminating the costs associated with supporting non-trusted root CA certificates within an enterprise. These core GlobalSign solutions allow its thousands of enterprise customers to conduct secure online transactions and data submission, and provide tamper-proof distributable code as well as being able to bind identities to client certificates for email security and remote two factor authentication, such as SSL VPNs.  The company has a rich history of innovation within the online security market and operates sales and support offices in the US, UK, Belgium, Japan, and China with services available in a number of European and Asian languages. 

About GMO Internet Inc.
GMO Internet Inc. (CEO Masatoshi Kumagai) is headquartered in Tokyo and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, First Section (Code: 9449).  Its Internet based business areas include Internet infrastructure and media. Further details can be found at http://www.gmo.jp/en/ and Mr Kumagai’s profile can be found at http://gmo.jp/en/profile/message.html.

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