NTT Data Enables Safer Transactions at 80 Japanese Banks with VeriSign Extended Valid

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In a groundbreaking move that signals a compelling new way for Application Service Providers (ASPs) to differentiate their offerings, NTT Data is helping multiple businesses simultaneously safeguard online transactions with Extended Validation (EV) Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificates.

This month, NTT Data, one of Japan’s largest providers of technology services, is enhancing the security protection it provides to 80 Japanese banks by deploying EV SSL Certificates from VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world.

As an ASP, NTT Data is able to efficiently extend VeriSign’s latest identity theft and anti-phishing protection to 80 banks at once. VeriSign® EV SSL Certificates offer another weapon in the growing effort to thwart phishing scams designed to trick consumers into providing their sensitive private information through impostor Web pages. Created by e-criminals, these increasingly sophisticated and realistic pages look and act like legitimate bank Web sites, but are created solely to steal account numbers, credit card numbers and passwords.....

By deploying VeriSign EV SSL Certificates, banks can provide their customers using high security browsers with instantly recognizable visible cues that assure users they have reached a genuine Web page. When a financial institution or other online business uses an EV SSL Certificate to identify itself, the latest browsers, including Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta, display easily understood visual cues to help provide tangible assurance of a site’s authenticity. The address bar turns green, a lock icon appears next to the address, and a new field displays to the right of the URL in the browser. This field contains the name of the organization that owns the site as well as the security provider that issued the certificate, such as VeriSign....

NTT Data Enables Safer Transactions at 80 Japanese Banks with VeriSign Extended Validation SSL Protection from VeriSign, Inc.