Tim Callan is a product marketing executive for VeriSign's SSL business unit. He is a longtime marketer of Internet and software solutions, a sometime entrepreneur, and a frequent writer and publisher of this and that. The opinions expressed in this blog are strictly his own.

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July 2, 2009

EV certificate compatibility and Firefox 3.5

Hi folks. Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I've been slammed.


Writing today because Firefox 3.5 has broken the download record for a new browser version with over 8 million downloads in a single day. One subject that has been the source online discussion is the fact that the EV certificates for a series of SSL brands (four that I know of) have stopped showing up green in Firefox 3.5.


You can be assured that this problem does not happen with the EV SSL Certificates from VeriSign, thawte, or http://www.geotrust.com/.

May 24, 2009

I'm back !

Greece was phenomenal. I want to move there.

May 8, 2009

Tim on vacation

Hey everybody,

We're disappearing to an obscure corner of the world for a couple of weeks, and I don't think I'll be blogging. I'll let you know when I'm back in contact.

April 29, 2009

Protecting against brand damage from online crime

Here's a cool Advertising Age article about how businesses view online crime and brand damage and what they do about it.

April 28, 2009

Sigh

Well, I didn't win the Best Corporate Security Blog at the Security Blogger Meetup. The winner in my category was Sunbelt Security's corporate blog. I want to personally thank all of you who voted for me. It is a great compliment that you, the readers, view this blog as worthy of such an award. And you're the people whose opinion matters the most.

April 19, 2009

The Cart Whisperer wins IAC Internet marketing award

Remember the Cart Whisperer, VeriSign's award-winning viral marketing campaign launched last year to educate businesses about the dangers of abandoned shopping carts and what they could do about them? The Cart Whisperer previously has been honored as one of Marketing Sherpa's top ten campaigns of 2008 and screened at the Cannes film festival. Now it has been honored by The Web Marketing Association with an Internet Advertising Competition Award for Outstanding Achievement in Internet Advertising.

April 16, 2009

Over 100 Japanese banks using EV SSL

Here's today's press release about the near-ubiquity of Extended Validation SSL among Japanese banking institutions.

April 14, 2009

Gartner reports 40% increase in phishing, over 5 million affected in US in 2008

A new report from Gartner states that the number of phishing incidents rose 39.8% with an average loss per incident of $351. This article summarizes Gartner's recommended response for online businesses,

Gartner recommends that enterprises continue to deploy and improve security solutions that protect accounts and customers against attacks. Enterprises that are custodians of customer accounts should also consider site authentication or assurance to confirm to a customer that he or she is on a legitimate Web site and not a spoof site.

Gartner analyst Avivah Latan goes on to suggest a layered security approach as the best response to phishing.

April 13, 2009

Speaking next week at Net.Finance

If you're going to Net.Finance in Las Vegas next week, I'm speaking in the main session on Tuesday morning with Jason Dufner of Flagstar Bank. The title of my presentation is Reputation Management: Consumer Trust Is More Than Just Security. I'll be tweeting on how it went.

April 9, 2009

Introducing Tim Callan's SSL Vlog

I've been doing Tim Callan's SSL Blog for just over three years and have put up over 300 posts. For a while I've been itching to branch out into some other media. Therefore I'm pleased to introduce you to Tim Callan's SSL Vlog. The purpose for the vlog is to better match the medium to the message. Blogs are great for linking and for in-depth discussion of matters the readers already understand. Vlogs allow verbal explanations, which for many people is an easier way to digest concepts that are new to them. Therefore at least at the beginning I intend to use this vlog to lay groundwork about how our e-commerce security infrastructure works and what the big trends are in the ecosystem. Just as I figured out the ins and outs of how I could best use my blog to contribute to the public dialog, I expect to go through a similar process with vlogging.


I'm also tweeting, so follow me there. Again, I have a different vision for this medium. I often have immediate observations I want to make but don't have time to write up a full blog post or am not at a computer or both. I'm tweeting from my phone, so I can capture those immediate opportunities as they arrive. Again, I reserve the right to change my vision for this medium as time progresses.

April 6, 2009

Thanks for voting for me

Readers of The SSL Blog, you have spoken. Today the Security Bloggers Meetup announced the finalists for its Social Security Awards for best security blog in a variety of categories. I am a finalist in the Best Corporate Blog category, and my fellow VeriSign blogger Branden Williams is a finalist in the Most Entertaining Security Blog category for his Security Convergence blog.

April 4, 2009

iPhone supports Extended Validation SSL

I've been waiting for it to happen, and here we are. Apple officially wins the smartphone race for Extended Validation SSL support. That's because Mobile Safari now has Extended Validation SSL support. On the heels of Internet Explorer's adoption of EV support in January 2007, the desktop saw a wave of browsers adding in support. With over 60% of mobile browser usage, iPhone is the pacesetter in this market. I hope Apple has broken the ice for mobile devices to do the same thing.


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