MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- More than 100 credit unions are now using VeriSign Extended Validation Secure Sockets Layer Certificates to help thwart phishing, according to VeriSign Inc.
The VeriSign EV SSL solution is used by online businesses to provide users visual clues that the Web site they are visiting is indeed legitimate.
Those clues include the address bar turning green, a lock icon appearing next to the address, and a field to the right of the URL in the browser that includes the names of the organization and the security provider.
Credit union users now include Michigan State University FCU, NIH FCU, University of Wisconsin CU and San Mateo CU, the company said.
"For us and for our members, the real currency of doing business online isn't money at all. It's trust," said Pete Kneisler, vice president of information services at $664 million San Mateo CU (www.sanmateocu.org).
VeriSign (www.verisign.com) now provides EV SSL Certificates to more than 3,000 Internet domains and help protect against identity theft at more than 90% of the Fortune 500 and the world's 40 largest banks, the company said.
