45 Day Test Drive announced for GlobalSign SSL Certificates

Customers offered a free 45 day fully functional trial of GlobalSign’s SSL Certificate offering.

September 10, 2007; 02:39 AM

Portsmouth, NH – GlobalSign (www.globalsign.com), one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in SSL security, has announced the availability of free, 45 day SSL test certificates which will offer customers the ability to experience GlobalSign’s range of SSL certificates before they buy. GlobalSign is the only Professional Level SSL supplier in the market that currently offers fully functioning test certificates.

The new service enables existing and first time customers, or customers switching from other SSL providers, to evaluate the GlobalSign SSL Certificate feature set and service. The test provides a range of benefits to customers, for example, the ability to:

• test for themselves the widely trusted GlobalSign Root CA certificate in their own browsers, Operating Systems and applications

• experience GlobalSign’s next-generation automated certificate validation and issuance process and to test the certificate profile used within GlobalSign certificates

• trial the innovative options based enrolment system pioneered by GlobalSign to allow customers to test wildcard SSL and the use of Subject Alternative Names (SANs)

• implement and test SSL security within internal staging or test environments in preparation for their upcoming production releases

"We are proud to be the first professional level SSL supplier in the marketplace to offer this innovative ‘test-drive’ service," said Steve Waite, Marketing Director, GlobalSign. "When comparing to other SSL Providers, we have massively simplified the certificate buying process and have introduced the industry’s first means of tailoring a SSL Certificate with a range of essential options. By offering test certificates we are happy to let customers experience the ‘GlobalSign difference’ free of charge, and at the same time allowing potential customers to become familiar with our exemplary customer service."

DomainSSL test certificates, issued from the highly trusted GlobalSign root certificate, are a fully functioning 45 day version of the DomainSSL product. OrganizationSSL test certificates are issued from a test root and will allow the customers to examine and test the certificate profile within test environments without the need to go through the usual vetting processes.

For more information on the DomainSSL and OrganizationSSL test certificates, please visit: http://www.globalsign.com

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 popular platforms including Mobile. Whereas the RootSign program allows the widely distributed and highly trusted GlobalSign root CA certificates to provide immediate trust for Microsoft CA and other inhouse CA users. These core GlobalSign solutions allow its thousands of enterprise customers and extensive partner network 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, Japan and Belgium.

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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