Extended Validation (EV). We tested the availability of the EV attribute in cer- tificates offered by bank sites, which notifies the user in various ways (depending on the used browser) that a more thorough identification process was followed before the certificate was issued. The expected procedures are noted in guidelines as published by the CA/Browser forum.9 EV depends on the capabilities and willingness of users to recognize the difference between basic certificates and EV certificates. Whether EV provides any benefit is disputed. Without training or guidance, a considerable num- ber of users do not notice the differences between offered basic and EV certificates in web browsers [Xxxxxxx et al. 2007; Sobey et al. 2008; Xxxxxx et al. 2009]. As shown in Figure 7, EV was already quite popular in 2013, but its popularity only increased marginally between then and 2015.
Extended Validation (EV). The same controls as DV plus a more rigorous validation that the company that requested the certificate is a legitimate business owner of the domain. There must be a person accountable for the actions of the website, as recorded by their government. The browser will display the company name as registered with their government jurisdiction. The validation referred to above is completed according to the industry standard CA/Browser forum guidelines. The Sectigo Certificate Manager (SCM) will discover all the installed SSL certificates: • Facing the internet within an IP address range • Within the enterprise firewall, using an agent at the customer premise. These can be SSL certificates from a Microsoft CA or from any SSL certificate vendor. The following information is discovered: IP address of the server, host name, common name, validity period, algorithms and key sizes (the content within the X.509 certificate). Once the certificates are discovered, the administrator may report on all certificates, examine each certificate for compliance to policy, send notifications prior to certificate expiration to allow for manual or fully automated renewal. Sectigo will issue an Anchor Cert, which allows the administrator to immediately issue certificates for their individual domains while preventing certificates being issued to domains they do not own. The administrator may also choose to automatically enroll or replace an SSL certificate prior to expiry with no human interaction saving the labor cost per certificate, while also eliminating the chance of human error leading to a service outage. The steps are: • Discovery of web server cert by SSL handshake and/or Discovery of certs by search of AD • SCM adopts these certificates, provides visibility & reporting • No spreadsheet required to track certs installed in non-MS clients • Automatic enrollment. The Sectigo proprietary scheme will propagate the private key to all web servers sharing the same key, such as a wild card or multi-domain certificate. • The industry standard, Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME), will be included in the price of the SSL certificate in January 2019. The Sectigo solution provides all these features for both Publicly Trusted and Privately Trusted (within the firewall) from the same Certificate Management console. If the Privately Trusted certificates were issued by a Microsoft CA, then they can also be discovered by the Sectigo Proxy requesting all certificates from Activ...
