About AlphaSSL

GlobalSign has been securing identities, websites and transactions, worldwide, for more than 10 years GlobalSign has a rich history of investors, including ING Bank and Vodafone. In October 2006 GlobalSign became part of the GMO Internet, Inc. (TSE: 9449) group of companies. Immediately a newly appointed Management Team was formed – comprising of a number of industry veterans with experience of establishing operations and creating successful market positions for Certificate Authorities like GeoTrust, CyberTrust and Comodo. Offering the most feature rich and highly valued SSL Certificates available in the industry GlobalSign is ready to take our existing and new corporate customers to the next level of managed security solutions.

The Global Certification Authority GlobalSign is a highly credible and well established Certificate Authority (CA) and SSL Provider. A leader in public trust services GlobalSign has been issuing trusted digital certificates since 1996 – delivering its Public Trust from a highly ubiquitous trusted public root. These trusted roots are recognized by all operating systems, all major web browsers, web servers, email clients, internet applications and devices that require SSL Certificates. Investors such as Vodafone have helped make it possible for GlobalSign to become an expert in providing trusted certificates and secure mobile technology to cellular devices and mobile phones. Our Root Ubiquity summary is available here: https://www.globalsign.com/resources/ssl_root_compatibility.pdf

Accredited to the highest standards As a WebTrust accredited public certificate authority, GlobalSign offers publicly trusted SSL, including EV SSL Certificates, S/MIME and Code Signing Certificates for use on all platforms including mobile devices. Our Trusted Root solution uses the widely distributed GlobalSign Root CA certificates to provide immediate PKI trust for Microsoft CA and enterprise CAs, eliminating the costs associated with using untrusted Root Certificates. Our partnership with Adobe to provide Certified Document Services (CDS) enables secure digitally signed PDF e-documents. These core Digital Certificate solutions allow its thousands of customers to conduct secure online transactions and data transfer, distribute tamper-proof code, and bind identities to client certificates for email security and remote two factor authentication.

Serving the customer, wherever you are GlobalSign’s focus on customer service ensures that enterprises all over the world benefit from expert technical assistance. Provided in numerous languages by phone, email, and web from offices located throughout the world, customer support is our main priority. GlobalSign’s core PKI skill set also ensures that large scale certificate based projects, whether enterprise PKI deployments or web hosting partner security solutions, are delivered timely and effectively. The GlobalSign core competence is visible in ever increasing commercial success with major wins in all major countries. In total over 20 million digital credentials rely on the security the GlobalSign root, technology and infrastructure provide.

From the team that formerly managed low end SSL Provider RapidSSL.com before it was acquired by VeriSign comes AlphaSSL - a specialist SSL Provider, focused on delivering and supporting entry level, low cost SSL Certificates. AlphaSSL is a result of combining years of experience in the SSL industry with a clear vision on how to best fulfill the growing demand for SSL worldwide with the lowest possible pricing - and all for highly trusted, highly supported 256 bit SSL Certificates.

A focus on customer service. A focus on excellence. With our staff being seasoned industry veterans in the world of SSL, we believe we offer the highest value entry level SSL at the lowest possible costs. We support all our customers via phone and email, where we're only too happy to talk you through an installation or give you tips on how to genereate that CSR trouble free. It is this dedication to customer service that we believe sets us apart from our competitors. When you call us, we answer. We won't force you to complete a ticket that gets left unawswered for 24 hours or more. Because we pride ourselves in fast issuance times and easy installation, we want to make sure that you don't just receive the SSL Certificate, but you have it up and running and securing your site just as quickly too!

We own our own root. We are not another "reseller". AlphaSSL owns its own root CA certificates and operates under its own stringent set of policy statements and documents - available for public viewing in the AlphaSSL Legal Repository.

GlobalSign History

GlobalSign was established over 10 years ago as one of the world’s first CA and SSL providers. With an initial focus in Europe, GlobalSign soon expanded its operations to serve a worldwide customer base. Throughout its years, a number of increasingly prestige companies have invested  in GlobalSign: Belgian Chambers, Ubizen, ING Bank and Vodafone - helping sculpt the global organization and industry leading technology GlobalSign customers and partners benefit from today.

In October 2006, GlobalSign was acquired by the GMO Internet Inc (TSE: 9449) group of companies from CyberTrust and welcomed on board a brand new Management Team comprising of some of the most experienced and respected talent in the digital certificate market - with senior staff responsible for establishing and operating a number of wide reaching Certification Authority services, including those from GeoTrust Europe, GeoTrust Japan, RapidSSL.com, CyberTrust and Comodo. GlobalSign is proud to announce it is now entering a new age of direction, innovation and focus.

In the past year the market has changed significantly. GlobalSign has never been better positioned than to offer a credible, cost effective alternative to the now combined VeriSign group of companies - VeriSign, GeoTrust, Thawte and RapidSSL.

GlobalSign Worldwide Management Team

	Ichiro Chujo - Group Chief Executive Officer & President
	CEO, GeoTrust Japan Director, GMO Hosting & Security Co-founder & Director, Isle Inc, RapidSite Inc
	Paul Tourret - Managing Director, EMEA
	Managing Director, GeoTrust Europe VP Sales, RapidSSL.com Managing Director, Comodo Sales Director, Sunrise Electronics
	Johan Sys - Chief Executive Officer, the Americas
	General Manager, GlobalSign Director of Managed Identities, CyberTrust Product Manager, GlobalSign
	Michiari Kanno - Group Chief Financial Officer
	CFO, GeoTrust Japan Director, GMO Hosting & Security Head of Business Planning, Isle Inc IPO Consultant & Auditor , Deloitte Tohmatsu
	Steve Waite - Marketing Director, EMEA & the Americas
	Marketing Director, GeoTrust Europe VP Marketing, RapidSSL.com Marketing Manager, Comodo
	Henry Krumins - Sales Director, EMEA
	Sales Director, GeoTrust Europe Sales Director, Comodo Sales Director, Sunrise Electronics
	John Murray - Vice President of Sales, the Americas
	Enterprise Sales Manager, GeoTrust Inc National Sales Manager, Cerida Inc
	Steve Roylance - Business Development Director, EMEA & the Americas
	Business Development Director, GeoTrust Europe Technical Marketing Director, Comodo Marketing Manager, Fujitsu Netherlands