Christian Heutger of PSW Group presents a Tuesday session (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In one of the final rounds of Tuesday sessions at WorldHostingDays, Christian Heutger, CEO of PSW Group delivered a presentation on how web hosting providers can profit from offering security services. PSW group, he says, is Germany’s leading provider of SSL certificates

Christian Heutger of PSW Group presents a Tuesday session (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In one of the final rounds of Tuesday sessions at WorldHostingDays, Christian Heutger, CEO of PSW Group delivered a presentation on how web hosting providers can profit from offering security services. PSW group, he says, is Germany’s leading provider of SSL certificates. He says ecommerce is growing in popularity, and in market size, but customers still cancel transactions if a site doesn’t appear to be secure.

A website displaying the Verisign Trust Seal (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Security firm Symantec ( www.symantec.com ) announced on Tuesday that domain registrar Moniker ( www.moniker.com ) now offers VeriSign SSL certificates and VeriSign’s Trust Seal to its customers.  This announcement comes a week following Symantec’s partnership with Adgregate Market s to provide VeriSign’s SSL certificates and trust seal to Facebook storefront service, ShopFans. Symantec says Moniker offers VeriSign SSL and EVSSL products as well as the VeriSign Trust Seal and its Seal-in-Search service that displays “the VeriSign Trust Seal next to a website’s link within search results in participating search engines, partners and security tools.” “We pride ourselves in making domain registrations safe and secure in an easy-to-manage and worry-free environment, and that’s why we’re adding VeriSign SSL, VeriSign Trust Seal and GeoTrust certificates as options for our registrants,” Moniker general manager Craig Snyder said in a statement. “In a marketplace where trust is essential to success, the VeriSign brand is the most recognized trust mark on the Internet.

A screenshot of a ShopFans e-commerce site on Facebook (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Security firm Symantec ( www.symantec.com ) announced on Friday that it has partnered with social commerce firm Adgregate Markets ( www.adgregate.com ) to offer SSL certificates and the VeriSign Trust Seal to customers of ShopFans, a Facebook application for creating e-commerce stores within the social networking platform. According to the announcement, stores created with ShopFans can enable transactions in Facebook without sacrificing security and privacy using VeriSign SSL certificates and VeriSign Trust Seal.

A screenshot from a demo of 3dcart’s Store Admin control panel (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Security firm Symantec ( www.symantec.com ) announced on Tuesday it has partnered with e-commerce solutions provider 3dcart ( www.3dcart.com ). 3dcart will provide its customers with VeriSign SSL Certificates and the VeriSign Trust Seal to increase security on their websites during the high-traffic holiday shopping season

The VeriSign Trust Seal (as shown on this website) is being offered as a free trial for 60 days as part of the promotion (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Security firm Symantec ( www.symantec.com ) announced on Monday it is offering free trials of all VeriSign SSL Certificates, including the free trial of its fully functional Extended Validation (EV) SSL. The competition for the SSL certificates market has become more intense recently with Symantec’s acquisition of VeriSign’s security operations – including GeoTrust ( www.geotrust.com ) – earlier this year.

On Wednesday, November 3 only, VeriSign Trust Seals are $1 for a 1-year subscription (normally priced at $299). (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – With Cyber Monday, the busiest online shopping day of the holiday season, looming, Internet infrastructure services provider VeriSign ( www.verisign.com ) is reminding businesses that the visual reassurance provided by the VeriSign Trust Seal could help online sales. In support of this message, the company is offering its VeriSign Trust Seal for only $1 on a 1-year subscription (normally priced at $299) for Wednesday, November 3 only.  The company said it hopes this one-day offer will help online businesses prepare for the busy holiday season, when millions of consumers and businesses head online to research companies, brands and products