Mar, 2003 : Easily.co.uk Adopts VeriSign Shared Security

📅 March 12, 2003 - Digital trust services provider VeriSign Inc. (VeriSign.com) announced on Wednesday that it has extended the global reach of its Shared Hosting Security Services (SHSS) through an agreement with United Kingdom-based domain name registration and hosting company Easily.co.uk (easily.co.uk).
The agreement, says VeriSign, allows Easily's several thousand online merchant customers to receive the same level of authentication and encryption used by larger Internet retailers. VeriSign's SHSS allows shared hosting customers access to a shared SSL certificate held by the hosting company for encryption, along with individual authentication services provided by VeriSign. The authentication allows online merchants to display the widely-recognized Verisign Silver Secure Site Seal on their Web sites.
According to Steve Andrews, VeriSign's director of partner and business development, VeriSign has recently begun focusing its attention on partnering with hosting providers internationally to expand the range of the SHSS product.
"We have our sales organization around the world talking to Web hosting partners," says Andrews. "We find that the business and technology issues are pretty similar. So this is not just a US effort. It's really a worldwide focus."
Andrews says that VeriSign is excited about the ability of the Shared Hosting Security Services to level the playing field for online retailers, allowing them to compete more directly with the larger online retailers.
"It's pretty exciting for us because, typically, we've been pretty successful in getting certificates to provide secure authentication and encryption to larger organizations," says Andrews. "But we found that, for some technological reasons, a lot of small businesses at shared hosting providers were not getting the benefits of encryption and authentication. A couple of years ago, we said 'how do we develop a product that meets the security needs for small businesses the same way we have for larger enterprises?' and we concluded that we needed to launch a new product to do that. That's what the shared hosting security service is all about."