VeriSign Trust Network Expands Across International Markets
New Affiliates to Deliver Trusted Digital Certificate Services for Secure E-Commerce and Communications
May 4, 1999 08:01 AM
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 4 /PRNewswire/ -- VeriSign, Inc. VRSN , the leading provider of Internet trust services, today announced the expansion of its global network of Affiliate Service Providers to include KPN, a leading telecommunications company in the Netherlands, and Certisur in Argentina. These new Affiliate service providers join existing VeriSign Affiliates across the U.S., Britain, France, Japan, South Africa and Taiwan (see release "VeriSign Expands Global Network of Trusted Service Providers" dated January 18, 1999) in leveraging VeriSign's global trust infrastructure for delivering digital certificate solutions to businesses wishing to engage in secure e-commerce.
As part of the affiliate services platform, VeriSign's global affiliates can now take advantage of flexible online trust services to enable secure intranet, extranet and e-commerce applications in their local countries. With the addition of these new affiliates, companies in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile and the Netherlands can quickly and cost-effectively establish a trust services infrastructure based on VeriSign's digital certificate services and software.
"International markets rely on rigorous personal identification procedures and credentials to successfully conduct trusted commerce and communications over the Internet," said Richard Yanowitch, VeriSign's Executive Vice President of Marketing. "As partners in VeriSign's global affiliate network, service providers throughout the world can now offer their customers proven Internet trust services for e-commerce, communications and business applications."
"Our goal is to enable companies to easily conduct business electronically. Offering PKI services is an important building block to achieve this," said Rene F. Delwel, Vice President KPN Telecom Transaction Services. "We have chosen to join the VeriSign Trust Network so that we can offer our customers proven, state-of-the-art digital certificate technology."
"Our decision to partner with VeriSign will place corporations in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile at the forefront of global e-commerce by leveraging the Internet as a secure medium for business transactions," said Norberto Marinelli, Executive Manager at Certisur. "VeriSign's Global Affiliate services provide an unprecedented trust infrastructure that enables us to quickly and easily deliver best-of-breed digital certificate technology to localized customers."
VeriSign Global Affiliate Services
VeriSign's Affiliate services have been designed to serve the needs of major service providers with extremely high-volume digital certificate issuance requirements. These include electronic commerce service providers that establish themselves as large-scale regional or multi-national Certificate Authorities (CAs); Internet Service Providers or Web hosting companies which deliver connectivity and other value added services to a range of business and consumer customers; and transaction processors, financial services companies, professional services firms, and other entities that operate Internet-based communities of interest (such as Web portals). These Affiliates typically offer digital certificate services to their customers either under their own brand, the VeriSign brand, or within a co-branded certificate hierarchy. In many cases, the certificate services are integrated with other value-added services offered by the provider.
VeriSign's Affiliate Services are based on the company's proven and scalable WorldTrust technology architecture which, along with comprehensive operational support, trust practices, and marketing services, facilitate an Affiliate's initial deployment and ongoing delivery of digital certificate solutions to its customers. Affiliate Services include the VeriSign Service Center, VeriSign Processing Center and the Secure Site ISP Program.
The flexibility of these offerings enables VeriSign Affiliates to quickly and cost-effectively deliver the trust infrastructure to meet the needs of their customers wishing to engage in secure and private commerce and communications. All Affiliate Services offerings offer the option of building either a private trust domain and/or inclusion in the VeriSign Trust Network (VTN), the world's largest network of globally-interoperable digital certificates used by individuals and businesses to secure their electronic transactions and communications. The VTN establishes a common set of technology, infrastructure, and practices -- key elements in establishing a common foundation of trust across communities, companies, industries and international boundaries.
KPN
KPN's mission is to enable customers to choose where, when, how and with whom they communicate. With over 8 million fixed network customers and more than 2 million mobile (GSM) network customers, KPN is the market leader in telecommunication in the Netherlands. Under the brand KPN Telecom, KPN provides a wide range of telecommunications services in the Netherlands and other markets. Besides telephony via the fixed network, mobile telephony and Internet services, KPN supplies and manages corporate networks, both for data communication between locations and data communication within a single location. KPN also supplies closed networks based on Internet technology (intranets and extranets) and other services making use of integrated information and communication technology (ICT). By further expanding the ICT portfolio, KPN is establishing itself as a partner in business. KPN is listed on the Amsterdam, New York, London and Frankfurt stock exchanges. KPN's Web site can be found at kpn.com.
Certisur, S.A.
Certisur is Argentina's first Certificate Authority, whose founding team has wide experience in information security and related state-of-the-art technologies and consumer services. Certisur supports its founders' ongoing mission of developing and promoting credit systems and commercial trade in Latin America, by providing Public Key Infrastructure services that ensure secure information exchange and fraud prevention. Certisur's Web site can be found at certisur.com.
VeriSign, Inc.
VeriSign, Inc. is the leading provider of Internet-based trust services and digital certificate solutions needed by Web sites, enterprises, electronic commerce service providers and individuals to conduct trusted and secure electronic commerce and communications over IP networks. VeriSign's digital certificate services for Web sites and consumers are available through the company's Web site at www.verisign.com. The company's digital certificate services for enterprises and electronic commerce service providers are available through regional account representatives, resellers and VeriSign Affiliates worldwide.
NOTE: VeriSign is a registered trademark exclusively licensed to VeriSign, Inc. VeriSign Global Trust Network, VeriSign Trust Network and Global Trust Network are service marks of VeriSign, Inc. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.
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