EV SSL

Extended Validation (EV) SSL is the highest level of trusted certificate that follows a standardized validation process to verify the business identity and domain ownership. It triggers HTTPS and a secured padlock, and an authenticated organization name can be seen upon clicking on a padlock. As a result, it is very easy for users to see what they are visiting is a phishing (fake) website or legitimate website.

• Strict extended organization validation and domain authentication.
• Display company name in the green address bar of website.
• Protect both www and non-www domain name at the same time.
• Issued by the third party (CA), not available to anyone.
• EV SSL certificate assures the strong encryption standards, which is ideal for ecommerce, banking, government and financial institution to deal with customers’ sensitive information.

• When it comes to choose an EV SSL, quantity of domain names, brands and budget shall be considered. Extended validation certificates enable protect a domain or multiple domains, but not give a protection to sub-domains.
• Digicert (Symantec) is the world's leading provider of scalable TLS/SSL. All of their EV SSL certificates display the globally known Norton secured seal and do daily virus scanning to protect your website at all times. With starting at $289/year, Digicert EV SSL certificate is quiet suitable for enterprise websites, e-commerce websites, etc.
• Entrust has the most outstanding security performance, and its popularity is second only to Symantec. Up to now, Entrust, with a market share of 75% in all EV SSL certificates, is recognized and applied by many large-scale IT companies, e-commerce enterprises, and financial institutions.
• EV SSL certificates of Geotrust and Sectigo (Comodo) are cheap and widely used in SMBs. Comodo EV SSL is best for small and micro websites and Geotrust EV certificate is a good choice for small and medium businesses and e-commerce websites.

EV SSL certificate includes verification of physical, operational, and legal existence of a company as well the certificate authority can contact third party business resources to verify the business details. All this process takes up to 5 days in certificate issuance.