Netissime Chooses Globalsign for Customer Online Security

Leading French Internet Service Specialist to offer full range of GlobalSign SSL Certificates to customers through Partner Program. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) September 06, 2011 - GlobalSign Inc. (www.globalsign.com.sg), one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in SSL Partner Programs, today announced that Netissime, a leading French Internet hosting company since 2000, has chosen GlobalSign's partner program to provide SSL Certificates to its international customer base. The newly formed partnership will allow Netissime customers to easily purchase GlobalSign's highly trusted 2048bit SSL technology to secure their websites, online transactions, web mail, and other next generation online services, which will compliment Netissime's existing product portfolio including hosting, dedicated server rental, antivirus, anti-spam, and firewall security solutions.

As a provider of SSL Certificates for nine years, Netissime has made the decision to partner with GlobalSign, switching from another leading SSL provider, due to GlobalSign's high quality and simplified product range, competitive pricing structure, marketing resources, and exceptional customer service with support available in French - all key features which match Netissime's business philosophy.

"GlobalSign's partner program was the obvious choice for Netissime due to GlobalSign's prestigious history in Europe, trustworthiness in the SSL market and very similar core business beliefs", said Dave Ebaze, CEO, Netissime. "We wanted to partner with a trusted SSL provider whose services would complement our existing security solutions. Our goal is to satisfy every customer by providing a tailored security solution with excellent customer service and GlobalSign's range of SSL Certificates and French speaking customer support services enables us to do exactly this.

"We are pleased to welcome Netissime on board as our latest international partner." said Paul Tourret, Managing Director, GlobalSign Ltd. "Netissime is showing creditable dedication to providing high quality, affordable web site and transaction security to its customer base and we look forward to our Certificates being readily available in the French market. We anticipate a long and mutually beneficial partnership with this leading service provider."

Netissime.com offers all three types of GlobalSign SSL Certificates from their websitewww.netissime.com, including fast issuance Domain Validation, traditional Organization Validation and the most advanced Extended Validated (EV) SSL Certificates, which activates the green address bar in new high security browsers such as IE8, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari. All SSL Certificates are inclusive of Server Gated Cryptography (SGC) (to "step up" weak 40 bit browser to server connections to strong 128 bit), have the option of including additional premium features (for example, Subject Alternative Names (SANs) and wildcard characters to allow the securing of multiple sites with a single certificate) and are issued from GlobalSign's widely distributed 2048 bit Root CA Certificate.

GlobalSign's Partner Program is designed for ISP's, Web Hosts, Integrators, Domain Registrars and VARs and enables SSL Certificates to easily be integrated into product ranges as value add options. Brands can become more competitive, new revenue streams are opened and the amount of revenue received per customer is maximized - all with minimal costs and a fast go-to-market. GlobalSign's Pay As You Go, no commit purchasing scheme, web based certificate management interface or API and comprehensive marketing support furthermore enhance the SSL reselling opportunity.

GlobalSign SSL Certificates are now currently available through Netissime website athttp://hebergement.netissime.com/ssl.php

About Netissime
Founded in 2000, Netissime, a brand of ELB Multimedia Group, is a leading Internet hosting companies located in France and fully accredited by ICANN, l'AFNIC, EURid and NOMINET. Netissime aids professionals and individuals in their development of the Internet through providing a full range of services including; domain name registration, shared hosting, dedicated hosting, security and promotional websites solutions. Located in the Lyon region, Netissime owns three data centres with all servers hosted in its premises, enabling daily monitoring of service quality. Over the last 9 years Netissime has built a vast customer base, with more than 50,000 clients now trusting the solutions Netissime provides. Constantly evolving, Netissime regularly offers its customers new turnkey solutions with quality service and technical support. For further information please visit www.netissime.com.

About GlobalSign
Established in 1996 and as a WebTrust accredited public certificate authority, GlobalSign offers publicly trusted SSL Certificates, EV SSL, Managed SSL Services, S/MIME email security andCode Signing for use on all platforms including mobile devices. Its Trusted Root solution uses the widely embedded GlobalSign Root CA certificates to provide immediate PKI trust forMicrosoft Certificate Services and internal PKI, eliminating the costs of using untrusted Root Certificates. Its partnership with Adobe to provide Certified Document Services (CDS) enables secure digitally signed PDF documents, certified transcripts and e-invoices. These core Digital Certificate solutions allow its thousands of authenticated customers to conduct secure online transactions, data transfer, distribution of tamper-proof code, and protection of online identitiesfor secure email and access control. The company has a history of innovation within the online security industry and has offices in the US, UK, Belgium, Japan, China and Singapore.

GMO Internet Group
GMO Internet Group is one of the most comprehensive providers of industry-leading Internet services worldwide. As well as domain registration, web hosting, ecommerce, and payment processing businesses that each hold the top share in their respective markets in Japan, services operated by the group include Internet advertising, search engine marketing and research. Global online security brand GlobalSign and major Japanese online securities brokerage, GMO CLICK Securities are also group members. In 2011 a new Social Media & Smartphone Platform segment was established bringing together group initiatives in social apps development, flash marketing and Android apps distribution. GMO Internet, Inc. (TSE: 9449) is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Please visit www.gmo.jp/en for more information.

For further details please contact:

GlobalSign Singapore
Tel: (toll-free) 800-101-2546

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