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GlobalSign Partners with Inter.net to Expand Business in Brazil and Panama Market

Leading ISP to offer GlobalSign security solutions as part of existing product portfolio

Portsmouth, NH – 17 April, 2009 – GlobalSign (www.globalsign.com), one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in SSL Certificates and Digital Identities for securing PDF documents, has today announced a partnership with Inter.net to incorporate GlobalSign’s full range of security products  into Inter.net’s existing solution portfolio.

With more than ten years experience as an Internet Service Provider, Inter.net has built a wide, truly global customer base, including a growing number of customers located in Brazil and Panama.  Inter.net decided to seek a well established, leading international Certification Authority partner who could offer a comprehensive range of value-add security products to complement their existing product umbrella of Managed Hosting, Software Development and Media Agency services.  GlobalSign’s highly trusted and future proof product range of Digital Certificates, including SSL Certificates, Code Signing Certificates, Personal Digital ID’s and Document Signing Services will provide a synergetic offering to Inter.net’s existing and new customers.

Brazil and Panama are the first regions where Inter.net will promote GlobalSign solutions. The SSL market in Brazil is the largest in South America, showing an annual growth rate of 14%.  The two companies expect the strategic partnership to achieve a 15% SSL market share in these countries by 2010. 

“We want to be able to offer safe and reliable security solutions to our customers in Brazil and Panama and we believe our partnership with GlobalSign will enable us to do this” said Mauricio Zanetti, CIO, Inter.net Brazil and Panama.  “Our customers expect the highest quality security at the best value, and we must be able to easily integrate the new offering into any existing platform.”

“The Brazil and Panama markets have very high strategic importance to the growth of GlobalSign in South America, and our newly formed partnership with Inter.net will help us expand into these countries quickly, gaining a good foundation in one the largest and fastest growing SSL Certificate markets worldwide”, said Johan Sys, CEO, GlobalSign Inc. 

“Our partnership with Inter.net also initiates GlobalSign’s ninth and tenth localized regional expansions and further widens our support to encompass additional languages and time zones”, said John Murray, Vice President of Sales, GlobalSign Inc.

About Inter.net    http://www.br.inter.net/
Inter.net is a global Internet Services Provider based in Reston, Virginia, close to Washington D.C in the USA.  Founded in 1999, Inter.net has around 300 employees around the world with revenues of more than US$50 million per year. Always focused on using the Internet to offer the most advanced and reliable services and products to its valuable customers Inter.net has been selected to be the official supplier to some of the most well-known companies in almost every sector, from financial services to industries and telecommunication

About GMO 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 and Code 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 for Microsoft 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 identities for 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.

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