GlobalSign was founded in 1996 as one of the Internet’s original trust service providers (technically known as Certificate Authorities). Over the years it has issued millions of trusted Digital Certificates to people, servers and mobile devices for Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) enabled solutions and applications. GlobalSign is a part of the GMO Internet Inc. group of companies, a member of the CA/B Forum, anti-phishing working group and an adopter member of the trusted computing group.

GlobalSign Digital Certificates protect the data and transactions of numerous Fortune 100 companies and Governments all around the world. Its automation technologies allow organizations to transform how they use SSL across networks and into the Cloud. In numbers, GlobalSign has issued over 10 million Digital Certificates / Digital IDs to people, websites and machines. Over 50 million Digital Certificates rely on the public trust of the GlobalSign root CA certificates and it has issued certificates in over 250 countries.