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GlobalSign Continues to Develop Strong European Channel Offering
Major European hosting companies select GlobalSign Partner Programme
LONDON, UK – 25 March, 2008 – GlobalSign (http://www.globalsign.co.uk), one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in SSL Certificate security, today announced that it saw significant momentum in channel and partner relations during 2007 and into 2008. In its first year after re-branding, the company launched exciting new products, solutions and systems to challenge the market. New high profile partners to come on board include leading German hosting service providers CPS Datensysteme and Regfish and Romanian Kratos Hosting.
During 2007, GlobalSign launched its channel-ready SSL solution designed specifically for SSL resellers, such as hosting companies, internet service providers (ISPs), consultants and integrators. The SSL Certificates are available through a revolutionary management interface or API designed with the channel in mind. The GlobalSign Certificate Center - a Software as a Service type solution, enables customers to quickly, simply and conveniently manage their customers’ SSL Certificates. GlobalSign’s “self-service portal” architecture means the reseller can react quickly to their customers, with even basic functions such as Certificate reissues and invoice generation being handled without the need to rely on the SSL Provider’s technical support people.
“GlobalSign brings 10 years of experience in the security sector, and the sophisticated product suite that Kratos is able to offer customers and its solution providers will immediately benefit end users,” said Catalin Raschka, Managing Director for Kratos Hosting, a recent addition to the GlobalSign partner programme. “With GlobalSign, we will be able to uphold the highest levels of responsiveness to our customer’s security requirements.”
Key features of the GlobalSign SSL Certificate itself include the option of utilising Domain Validation, Organisation Validation or Extended Validation (DV, OV and EV), the free inclusion of Server Gated Cryptography (SGC) in every certificate (to “step up” weak 40 bit browser to server connections to strong 128 bit), extensive warranties and recognition by all popular browsers, applications and mobile devices. Clickable site seals, the ability to include Subject Alternative Names (SANs) and wildcard characters to allow the securing of multiple servers and sites with a single certificate, all result in an SSL offering with comprehensive benefits for customers and solution providers worldwide.
“2007 has been a banner year for GlobalSign with a host of product, platform and company changes to deliver quality, reliable customer service as well as a focus on the consolidation of partner relationships with the likes of CPS-Datensystem, Regfish and Kratos,” said Paul Tourret, managing director, GlobalSign Ltd, “Our resellers are enjoying the freedom that the GlobalSign Partner Program offers by allowing the integration of SSL Certificates into their own product range. Partners are then able to create new revenue streams for their organisations by taking advantage of the credible GlobalSign SSL Certificate brand,”
Further information about GlobalSign’s Reseller Programme can be found on its re-branded website at http://www.globalsign.co.uk.
CPS-Datensystem services can be found at www.cps-datensystem.de.
Regfish services can be found at www.regfish.de.
Kratos Hosting services can be found at www.kratos-hosting.net.
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.
For further details please contact:
Steve Waite Stephanie Ross
GlobalSign Ltd AxiCom UK
+44 (0) 1622 766766 +44 (0)20 8392 4095
press@globalsign.com stephanie.ross@axicom.com
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