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Recent Gartner research on lost e-commerce income due to security concerns
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 1 comment

Gartner reports $2 billion lost e-commerce sales in 2006 due to consumer security fears. Gartner's report is based on a study of 5000 U.S. adults. This article quotes Gartner analyst Avivah Litan, who says,

"[T]his year, more people were stopping online banking than last year and also lowering their online purchasing dollars."

According to Gartner more than 10% of adults had cut their online spending to less than half of the previous year's. That means at least a 5% overall loss of revenue for e-commerce sites and 5% lost online transations for banks. In other words, if an e-commerce site that sells $1 million worth of merchandise a year actually could be selling at least $50,000 more a year if its customers were fully confident in the security of the...

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More discussion on Extended Validation and small businesses
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

Here are a couple of worthwhile bloggings motivated by the recent Wall Street Journal article on Extended Validation.

Bruce Schneier has a fairly short posting that motivated a lot of discussion in the comments section. I certainly see some good information floating through these comments. At the same time there are some wrong assumptions as well. I'll endeavor to put up a posting soon and set some of these errors straight.

Microsoft responded to this flurry of press activity with a posting of its own on the IEBlog. It's a cogent explanation of the current limitations, their reasons, and the alternatives available to businesses. One quote: "Given the benefits that...

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CNBC covers groundswell of demand for EV SSL Certificates
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

Interesting story this morning on CNBC about the growing demand for EV certificates. This story points out the power of the Extended Validation SSL interface to online shoppers and focuses on the question of how widely available they will become. The reporter maintains (and I would agree) that EV is such a strong tool in protecting online commerce that we need to make it available to as many businesses as possible as soon as possible. The article includes an example of what the EV certificate will look like on Overstock.com after green bars go live (...

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Security prediction: "SSL will start to encompass trust again."
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

SecurityPark.net offers its security predictions for 2007. Included is a very thoughtful article about the SSL's increasing place in assuring online trust and the return of identity promise. Although this article doesn't mention Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates by name, the increased role it predicts for SSL Certificates corresponds very closely to the reasons for and promise of EV.

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Extended Validation SSL available for GeoTrust and thawte customers
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

I'm pleased to announce that today we made EV SSL Certificates available for GeoTrust and thawte certificates.

Read more about GeoTrust Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates here.
Read more about thawte Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates here.

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Press release announcing Extended Validation SSL from VeriSign
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

This morning we issued a press release announcing the availability of our Extended Validation SSL Certificates. This release also announces our exclusive EV Upgrader(TM) technology, the only technology in the world that will automatically enable all Windows XP clients visiting the site with IE7 to display the green address bar when viewing a VeriSign Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificate. Finally, the release announces our first customer, Overstock.com. Overstock.com is one of the largest online retailers in the world, and we're very pleased to have them on board with VeriSign EV SSL Certificates.

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Extended Validation SSL Certificates are available!
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

It's here. VeriSign is taking orders for Extended Validation SSL Certificates, performing authentication, and issuing certificates. We've already issued the first of our certificates to customers.

Order your Extended Validation SSL Certificates here.
Read more about Extended Validation SSL Certificates here.

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A great Web security blog
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

For the past few months I've been enjoying the hell out of Phillip Hallam-Baker's Web Security Blog. Here's a guy who's much smarter than I am and ready to share his considerable online security insights with the public. I never miss it, and I strongly recommend you check it out.

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Over 100 million VeriSign Secured Seals viewed in a single day
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

Yesterday was what they used to call "black Monday" (because it was the day that put online retailers in the black) and they now call "Cyber Monday" (presumably because it sounds cooler). Cyber Monday is often the biggest sales day of the year online, and yesterday was huge. How huge? Well, I can tell you that for the first time in history over 100 million VeriSign Secured Seals were viewed in a single day. I'm very confident that's an unprecedented event. I can't think of another online mark might ever have been viewed in that volume.

Pretty cool.

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Nice article on Opodo's increased success with the VeriSign Secured Seal
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

Here's a good writeup on vnunet.com about Opodo's measured sales increase using the VeriSign Secured Seal. It includes a quote from Gartner analyst Avivah Litan, who describes the increase driven by the VeriSign Secured Seal as "unusual."

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