SINGAPORE, March 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- GlobalSign, one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in Digital Certificate security, announced the opening of its regional office for Southeast Asia in Singapore, as well as the launch of an English-language website dedicated to serving customers here and across the neighbouring markets -- www.globalsign.com.sg, enabling website owners, businesses and channel partners to easily and speedily acquire and renew Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates and other authentication solutions online. Free trials are now available at www.globalsign.com.sg/free-trial/free-ssl-certificate/.
GlobalSign was established over 10 years ago as one of the world's first public Certification Authorities and SSL providers, and was acquired by the GMO Internet Inc group of companies in October 2006 as a wholly-owned subsidiary.
Currently the fourth largest SSL certificates issuer and the fastest-growing worldwide, the Singapore office opening and website launch are part of GlobalSign's strategic expansion plan, following the recent launches of local websites in Australia, Canada, France, and the Netherlands.
The new regional office and local website will help fuel GlobalSign's expansion into Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific region outside Japan, while complementing existing regional operations across North America, Europe, China and Australia.
GlobalSign's Asia Pacific customers include the Bank of Korea (BOK), China Minsheng Bank, EVA Airways, Hutchison Whampoa Limited, Lenovo, Panasonic, and Samsung. Its Singapore customer base spans multiple verticals across both the public and private sectors, and includes HP, National University of Singapore (NUS), and the Singapore Exchange (SGX).
The Singapore website offers direct online purchase of GlobalSign's comprehensive range of SSL certificates quoted in local currency for encrypting and authenticating websites, logins, online transactions and e-mail, covering fast issuance Domain Validation, traditional Organization Validation and Extended Validated (EV) SSL Certificates.
"Product performance and reliability, offered at attractive price points and backed by outstanding support services, are the hallmark of our worldwide success and will underpin our go-to-market strategy for Singapore and the region," said Ichiro Chujo, GlobalSign Group CEO. "We believe our success in displacing the competition as the SSL vendor and certification authority of choice in other geographies will soon be realised in this region."
GlobalSign's new unlimited server licensing policy allows customers to use a single certificate across any number of physical servers or devices at no additional cost, which lowers the cost of securing virtualised environments, cloud applications and large SSL deployments.
GlobalSign certificates feature Server Gated Cryptography, which bolsters weak browser encryption on older browsers, and support Wildcard technology and Subject Alternative Names for securing multiple sites with a single certificate. In addition, all certificates are issued from the widely distributed, 2,048-bit GlobalSign Root CA certificate to provide the most trusted level of encryption available.
GlobalSign Singapore website is now live at www.globalsign.com.sg.
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About GlobalSign
Established in 1996 and as a WebTrust accredited public certificate authority, GlobalSign offers publicly trusted SSL Certificates, EV SSL, Managed SSL Services, S/MIME email security and Code Signing for use on all platforms including mobile devices. Its Trusted Root solution uses the widely embedded GlobalSign Root CA certificates to provide immediate PKI trust forMicrosoft Certificate Services and internal PKI, eliminating the costs of using untrusted Root Certificates. Its partnership with Adobe to provide Certified Document Services (CDS) enables secure digitally signed PDF documents, certified transcripts and e-invoices. These core Digital Certificate solutions allow its thousands of authenticated customers to conduct secure online transactions, data transfer, distribution of tamper-proof code, and protection of online identitiesfor secure email and access control. The company has a history of innovation within the online security industry and has offices in the US, UK, Belgium, Japan, and China.
GMO Internet Group
GMO Internet Group, headquartered in Japan, is a leading force in the Internet industry offering one of the most comprehensive ranges of Internet services worldwide. The group holds top domestic market share in domain registration, web hosting, and payment processing and provides a host of other Internet services including global online security services, e-commerce solutions, and Internet advertising to both businesses and individuals. At the centre of the group is GMO Internet, Inc. a company listed on the prestigious first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE: 9449). Please visit www.gmo.jp/en for further details.