What is VeriSign?

As the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, VeriSign, Inc. provides authentication and verification of businesses worldwide. Billions of times each day, VeriSign helps companies and consumers all over the world to engage in trusted communications and commerce.

VeriSign provides an industry-leading authentication methodology

• VeriSign's rigorous authentication practices set the standard for online identity assurance with annual audits by KPMG.
• VeriSign continuously invests in research and infrastructure to keep our practice standard among the highest in the industry and to stay well ahead of evolving security risks.
• In the company's history, VeriSign has performed over three million business authentications worldwide.

VeriSign is the most trusted mark on the Internet¹

• VeriSign² secures more than one million Web servers worldwide, more than any other Certificate Authority.
• Over 95% of Fortune 500 companies and 96 of the world's 100 largest SSL-using banks secure their sites with SSL Certificates sold by VeriSign².
• Businesses have measured significant benefit from displaying the VeriSign Secured^®
  

  Seal, such as a 10% increase in transactions for Opodo or a 36% increase in registrations by Papercheck.com³.

Additional news and information about the company is available at www.verisign.com