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Search online for ‘security certifications’
and you’ll either be faced with a list of
accredited training bodies, ideal for
those looking to obtain a professional
qualification in their field, or pages about
SSL and digital certificates. police the scope of documents and
applications that are signed and to
continually improve and enhance the
validation process that these companies
go through, so the bad guys don’t slip
through the cracks.”
Though very different, the results are
equally important to those tasked with
the job of protecting their organisations
from cyberthreats, so we’ve spoken to
experts about both. One area which GlobalSign sees
emerging as a new challenge is the
Internet of Things (IoT).
Tasked with outlining the three main
types of SSL digital certificates issued
by GlobalSign, a trusted certification
authority (CA), was Doug Beattie, Vice
President of Product Management at
the firm.
The first, Domain Validated (DV SSL)
Certificates, require a CA to check an
applicant has the right to use a specific
domain name, but no company identity
information is vetted.
Organisational Validated (OV
SSL) Certificates are issued to
those affiliated with a company or
organisation, while Extended Validation
(EV SSL), as the highest class of
SSL available, requires companies to
go through more due diligence and
validation. EV SSL certificates activate
both the padlock and the green address
bar in all major browsers.
Beattie said: “They’re really useful for
e-commerce sites, insurance companies
and healthcare where identity is really
important to know before you just start
submitting personal data and things like
that. You really want to know who you
are talking to.”
As cyberthreats show no sign of
slowing in their evolution, ‘trust’ is more
important than ever. People want, and
deserve, to know they’re not inputting
sensitive details into a system which
is compromised or potentially could
be. Beattie said it was important that
people could trust the website and
digital signatures – certificates – have an
important role to play.
Doug Beattie, Vice President of Product
Management at GlobalSign
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He said: “As cyberthreats start to grow,
it’s becoming even more important to
Beattie said: “This is going to be an
explosive growth area for us in the
coming years. We’ve really revamped
our whole CA infrastructure over the last
two years. “We’ve an entirely new set of
systems – they are in our London data
centre – and those are prepared to issue
thousands of certificates per second.”
Advice to enterprises
and organisations
“There are a lot of different, maybe
contradictory, security requirements
within larger enterprises and they
need to set up decent policies and
As cyberthreats
start to grow it’s
becoming even
more important to
police the scope
of documents and
applications that
are signed.
procedures for requesting and managing
the certificates,” Beattie said.
The other ‘certificates’
– professional security
certifications
In a world where cyberthreats are ever-
evolving, there is a real need for trained
security professionals. Professional
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