ROSELAND, N.J., Sept. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Sectigo, a
leading provider of automated digital identity management and web
security solutions, announced that Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU), a leading
Chinese search engine with more than one billion daily page views,
has chosen Sectigo to provide the back-end services for the
company's all-new Baidu Trust SSL Certificates. Baidu will offer
Sectigo Domain Validated (DV), Organization Validated (OV), and
Extended Validation (EV) certificates white-labeled under the Baidu
Trust product line, greatly expanding Sectigo's footprint in
Asia.
"Baidu is committed to making the complicated world simpler
through technology. This mission includes providing our customers
and users with best-practice security technologies and a seamless
experience," said Roy Zhang, Leader
of Enterprise Application Ecology Products, Baidu division. "We
have chosen Sectigo to supply the infrastructure for the new Baidu
Trust SSL Certificates because the global CA is highly trusted and
offers a certificate type for every use case, from authenticating
small personal websites to large enterprise domains. Our customers
can choose from many trust products, ranging from basic DV SSL
certificates to more premium EV SSL certificates, based on their
individual needs."
Sectigo has issued more than 100 million certificates worldwide
and offers the widest selection of white-label-ready SSL product
options available from a leading certificate authority. Baidu's
Trust offering, available today to website owners in China, leverages this legacy of trust to
enhance the security assurance for millions of internet users
across Eastern Asia.
"Trust is a key component of Sectigo's brand. We are not only
providing trust through our certificates, but also as a proven
technology partner with decades of experience," explained
Michael Fowler, President of
Partners and Channels at Sectigo. "Asia and China, specifically, are experiencing an
unprecedented shift to conducting business and sharing information
online. Baidu and Sectigo have proven successful in their
industries and collaborated to bring the best SSL security to
greater China."
"Baidu's choice to use Sectigo for their Baidu Trust SSL
certificates underscores the confidence that leading internet
brands have in our products and team—and we look forward to a
successful partnership serving companies across Asia and China though a shared vision of excellence,"
added Fowler.
To learn more about Sectigo's white-label product SSL
certificate offerings visit
https://sectigo.com/partners/channel.
About Baidu
Baidu, Inc. is a leading search engine, knowledge, and
information-centered Internet platform and AI company. The
Company's mission is to make the complicated world simpler through
technology. Baidu's ADSs trade on the NASDAQ Global Select Market
under the symbol "BIDU". Currently, ten ADSs represent one Class A
ordinary share.
About Sectigo
Sectigo is a leading cybersecurity provider of digital identity
solutions, including TLS / SSL certificates, DevOps, IoT, and
enterprise-grade PKI management, as well as multi-layered web
security. As the world's largest commercial Certificate
Authority with more than 700,000 customers and over 20 years of
experience in online trust, Sectigo partners with
organizations of all sizes to deliver automated public and
private PKI solutions for securing webservers, user access,
connected devices, and applications. Recognized for its
award-winning innovation and best-in-class global customer support,
Sectigo has the proven performance needed to secure the digital
landscape of today and tomorrow. For more information,
visit www.sectigo.com and follow @SectigoHQ.
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