Easily-deployed and Proven Adaptive Authentication, Tiered Delegated Administration and Federation
Solutions Help Businesses Reap the Benefits of Enhanced Customer and Partner Interactions

BOSTON, MA – December 2, 2014 – GMO GlobalSign (www.globalsign.com), the security division of Tokyo-based GMO Internet Group (TSE: 9449), and a leading provider of identity services for online transactions, announced a suite of new identity relationship and access management solutions that help enterprises and service providers better manage customer and partner interactions to increase revenue and enhance customers’ experiences in today’s extended online enterprise. Already proven in demanding consumer-facing corporate and government applications in Scandinavia, GlobalSign’s new solutions are based on technologies developed by Helsinki-based Ubisecure, which GlobalSign acquired in September 2014, and are now being made available to US and broader European markets for the first time.  

GlobalSign’s identity solutions allow organizations to create new and innovative business models, by making it easy to build and scale self-service portals using social vetting, automate use of services based on CRM information, utilize tiered delegated administration and other innovative features.  Its portfolio of solutions for customer and partner identity, access and authorization management can be rapidly deployed using pre-defined best practice-based processes that support the majority of use cases enterprises and service providers’ face.  This agile implementation environment allows organizations to purchase and integrate products that are just what they need today, but that are also very robust and can be further customized with additional authentication and eService capabilities as needs dictate, supporting a bimodal IT strategy.

Solutions, which can be implemented on-premise or in the cloud, include: 

·   GlobalSign SSO, an easy-to-deploy and highly scalable Single Sign-On (SSO) and access control solution providing extensive authentication for extranet and web services.  Built for a variety of platforms, providing role-based access control, and federation capabilities using industry standards.

·   GlobalSign CustomerID – a highly scalable, online customer relationship management (CRM) solution built to minimize the cost of identity management for the provider company through self-service functions and integrations to 3rd party-verified customer data.

·    GlobalSign Trust – a standards-based control center for federated identity solutions that transfers identity information across two or more independent domains.

·    GlobalSign Confirm – by using a simple API, applications can call GlobalSign Confirm to perform the heavy-lifting of user authentication and transaction confirmation in a legally binding, yet user friendly way.

·   GlobalSign IAM Academy – a program providing training, certification, support and other IAM related resources to customers and partners.

“GlobalSign’s IAM technology is already in use by an impressive number of government agencies, financial institutions and enterprises for large scale applications. These include by telecom service providers which allow their customers to manage their own account features; by the Finnish tax bureau to provide services to millions of citizens and companies; by energy companies to provide legally required usage information to customers; and by banks to cross-sell investment and insurance services from federated organizations to their customers. These organizations are saving millions of dollars in account management costs and providing higher levels of service to their customers by using GlobalSign’s technology to integrate with existing CRM solutions and enable self-registration, dynamic authentication based on transaction value, and delegated, multi-tiered identity and access management features.”

““Since its inception, GlobalSign has been focused on providing trusted digital identities and securing transactions for organizations, individuals, devices and content. With our newly acquired IAM products, we can now provide the solutions to help our customers better manage identities, with user self-service, authorization and sophisticated access controls,” said Joan Lockhart, GlobalSign’s chief marketing officer. “As more interactions and assets move online, providing comprehensive identity and lifecycle management services will become fundamental to creating new business paradigms and ensuring trust. We are excited to be offering these new solutions to customers worldwide, as we help them manage identities within and beyond their organizations, and into the burgeoning Internet of Everything (IoE) opportunity.””

GlobalSign will showcase its new Identity Relationship Management solutions at the Gartner IAM Summit starting December 2 at Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas, in booth 417.

About GMO GlobalSign
GlobalSign, founded in 1996, is a provider of identity services for the internet of everything, mediating trust to enable safe commerce, communications, content delivery and community interactions for billions of online transactions occurring around the world at every moment. Its identity and access management portfolio includes access control, single sign-on (SSO), federation and delegation services to help organizations and service providers create new business models for customer and partner interactions. GlobalSign's core digital certificate solutions allow its thousands of authenticated customers to conduct SSL secured transactions, data transfer, distribution of tamper-proof code, and protection of online identities for secure email and access control. GlobalSign's solutions are designed to address the massive scalability demanded by the emerging $14.4 trillion Internet of Everything (IoE) market, where the ability to make secure networked connections among people, processes, data and things, will require that every "thing" have a trusted identity that can be managed. The company has offices in the US, Europe and throughout Asia. For the latest news on GlobalSign, visit www.globalsign.com or follow GlobalSign on Twitter (@globalsign ).

GMO Internet Group
GMO Internet Group is a comprehensive provider of industry-leading Internet solutions including domain name registration, cloud-based and traditional hosting, ecommerce, security, and payment processing services that each hold the top share of their respective markets in Japan. Other key business areas for the Group include online securities/FX trading, Internet advertising, search engine marketing and online research, and smartphone game development and publishing. GMO Internet, Inc. (TSE: 9449) is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. For more information please visit http://www.gmo.jp/en.