I've written quite a bit on this blog about what has carried the code name High Assurance SSL Certificates. Well, the industry consortium creating the new standard has decided on an official name for them, which is Extended Validation. So when you see me writing about Extended Validation or EV SSL Certificates - or when you see these terms in the press or on a company's Web site - we're referring to what up to now has been referred to as High Assurance.

I just had an article appear in Internet Retailer Magazine on High Assurance SSL Certificates. It's a general overview of the upcoming new certificate type as it stands today, a good primer for anyone who wants to become familiar with this important development in the Web's secure backbone.

According to VeriSign's Domain Name Industry Brief, the Internet just surpassed over 100 million domain names for the first time in history. That's a great milestone. The Domain Name Industry Brief is a very cool, and you can always find the latest reports on this page.

The latest of the leaders in online business to choose display of the VeriSign Secured Seal is Charles Schwab, aka Schwab.com. Schwab joins the ranks of fellow investment services providers such as E*TRADE and Scottrade in proudly displaying that they use best-of-breed SSL security to protect their customers. These sites are particularly gratifying because in many ways they (like banks) represent the pinnacle of online security requirements. Customers go to these sites to perform very sensitive, valuable, and mission-critical transactions. These sites take their security very...