DV, OV, and EV SSL certificates offer varying security levels. EV is ideal for sensitive data, OV suits small businesses, and DV provides basic encryption.
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With 90-day maximum term is coming for SSL certificates, we explain why we do not expect a reduction in the reuse period for organization validation.
Perfect forward secrecy is a feature of SSL/TLS & an important part of the future of cybersecurity. Learn what this encryption system is & how it works.
Learn about how the validity periods for digital certificates are determined and the benefits of digital certificates.
In recent years the EV SSL "green address bar" has shrunk and evenually disappeared. We walk you through how that came to be.
Root Causes Podcast
Root Causes 142: Removing Street Address and Postal Code from Public Certificates
On March 1 Sectigo will remove street address and postal/zip code information from its public certificates of all types. Our hosts explain why.
Press Release
Sectigo Selected by Baidu to Provide SSL Services for All-New Baidu Trust SSL Certificates
Sectigo announced that Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU), a leading Chinese search engine with more than one billion daily page views, has chosen Sectigo to provide the back-end services for the company’s all-new Baidu Trust SSL Certificates. Baidu will offer…
With EV Code Signing Certificates, the EV vetting process is mandated by the CA/Browser Forum, discouraging fraudsters from attempting to obtain them.
Learn about research indicating that criminal marketplaces feature services to obtain original Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates.
Why Google and Mozilla are wrong about the benefits of Extended Validation certificates that aim to prevent fraud and protect user privacy.
The majority of phishing sites now use SSL certificates to closely imitate the behavior of legitimate sites. Join our hosts as we dig into these findings.
Sectigo Blog
Mozilla's Announced Decision to Remove the Extended Validation UI Indicator Should Be Reconsidered
The week before last, very quickly and without advance warning, Mozilla announced that it would remove the Extended Validation SSL certificate indicator from its upcoming build 70. This announcement spawned a very lively debate that is still going…
Root Causes Podcast
Root Causes 32: Why Do Browsers and Academic Research Say Different Things About EV SSL?
Research shows that sites with Extended Validation SSL certificates are less likely for malware and phishing. So why do browsers say it isn't effective?
New research conducted by the Georgia Institute of Technology Cyber Forensics Innovation (CyFI) Laboratory confirms that a website with a company-branded address bar greatly decreases the chance of internet users falling victim to a malware attack or…
In the News
Study Finds 99.99 Percent Probability That Websites with Company-Branded Address Bars Represent a Legitimate, Trusted Domain
To conduct the study, researchers at the CyFI Lab cross-correlated a global repository of web domains with EV certificates against an aggregation of web domains associated with malware, suspicious activity blacklists, and underground marketplace…
Press Release
Study Finds 99.99 Percent Probability That Websites with Company-Branded Address Bars Represent a Legitimate, Trusted Domain
New research conducted by the Georgia Institute of Technology Cyber Forensics Innovation (CyFI) Laboratory confirms that a website with a company-branded address bar greatly decreases the chance of internet users falling victim to a malware attack or…
SSL certificates provide internet users with the assurance that the website they’re visiting is safe, secure and under the control of a legitimate operator. Or at least they're supposed to.
Sectigo Blog
New Research on EV SSL Security from Georgia Tech: EV Domains 99.99% Free of Online Crime
Online criminal actors reveals that domains with EV SSL certificates are 99.99% likely to be unassociated with bad cyber actors. CyFI studied 2.6 million domains associated with EV SSL to arrive at these results.
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