Sectigo Delivers Record Quarter of Growth Underpinned by More Than 35% YoY Enterprise Sales Increase in Q1 2019

Addition of Top Brands, Along with New Email Encryption and Digital
Signing Product, Drive Sales for World’s Largest Commercial SSL Provider

ROSELAND, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sectigo
(formerly Comodo CA), the world’s largest commercial Certificate
Authority and a leader in web security solutions, today announced a
larger than 35% year-over-year (YoY) increase in enterprise sales during
the first quarter of 2019, fueled by the adoption of the company’s Certificate
Manager, Private CA, S/MIME, and IoT Manager enterprise solutions.
Sectigo also kicked off 2019 with an expanded partner program, the
release of its Zero-Touch
Deployment S/MIME product, a new strategic IoT alliance, and receipt
of numerous awards.

Sectigo’s record quarter follows a breakthrough year and a complete corporate
rebrand in November of 2018. The company has experienced rapid
growth since expanding beyond TLS/SSL
certificates to offer solutions that protect enterprises of all
sizes from increasingly sophisticated web-based threats across websites,
IoT devices, internal infrastructure, and cloud services.

“After delivering a strong 2018 where Sectigo’s growth was more than
twice as fast as the overall market, we have accelerated our efforts by
doubling down on addressing the enterprise’s most pressing needs through
product innovation,” said Bill Holtz, CEO, Sectigo.

“Enterprises are embracing automated certificate management to
facilitate discovery, installation, and renewal for their vast
inventories of private and public certificates across diverse use cases
and operating systems. These capabilities are essential to securing our
complex enterprise environments and their increasing use of
virtualization, containerization, mobile devices, IoT, and DevOps.
Certificate automation enables strong identity in these complex
environments and protects against costly outages caused by unexpected
certificate expirations,” Holtz added.

Sectigo highlights in Q1 2019 include:

• Enterprise growth – Dozens of marquee brands, spanning retail
  to technology sectors, enlisted Sectigo as their trusted partner for
  certificate management. Sectigo Certificate Manager provides
  enterprises with complete visibility and lifecycle control over any
  public and private certificate in its environment all from a single
  portal.
• Product innovation – In February, Sectigo introduced the
  industry’s first Zero-Touch
  S/MIME solution to combat business email compromise (BEC) and
  other spear phishing attacks and increase compliance with regulations
  like HIPAA/HITECH, GDPR, and the U.S. Department of Defense’s DFARS.
  The innovation modernizes email security and encryption by using
  automation to deploy digital certificates across every desktop,
  tablet, and mobile device in an enterprise.
• Expanded IoT ecosystem – Sectigo and Kyrio, a subsidiary of
  CableLabs, formed a
  strategic alliance to provide the expertise needed for IoT
  projects to be designed, architected, built, and deployed with
  security in mind from day one. Multi-vendor ecosystems, including the
  Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF), CBRS WInnForum, and SunSpec
  Alliance, have already chosen Kyrio and Sectigo to manage their global
  PKI deployments.
• Industry awards – Sectigo won five company awards
  and received three executive honors in Q1.
  • Cyber
    Defense Magazine’s InfoSec Awards – CEO Bill Holtz was named
    the Most Innovative Chief Executive of the Year, Sectigo
    Certificate Manager earned the Hot Company Identity Management
    Award, IoT Manager was selected for Publisher’s Choice IoT
    Security, and Zero-Touch S/MIME won the Next-Gen Deep Sea Phishing
    Award.
  • 2019
    Info Security PG’s Global Excellence Awards® – Sectigo IoT
    Manager was awarded bronze in the New Product or Service of the
    Year category, and CMO Jonathan Skinner won gold for Marketing
    Professional of the Year.
  • 2019
    Cybersecurity Excellence Awards – Sectigo won silver for Most
    Innovative Cybersecurity Company, and gold for Cybersecurity
    Marketer of the Year (for CMO, Skinner).

• Channel expansion – Sectigo unveiled a revamped
  Channel Partner Program, enabling partners to grow into new
  cybersecurity market segments. By teaming up with Sectigo, resellers
  develop their product portfolios and learn best practices for
  optimizing the customer experience. After collaborating with Sectigo,
  ICANN-accredited registrar Uniregistry, saw 53%
  of users who expressed interest in their UniSSL products complete
  purchases.
• Thought leadership – Sectigo launched Root Causes: A PKI and
  Security Podcast to frame public conversations and discuss key
  issues, breaking news, and major trends in digital certificates and
  PKI. Co-hosted by Sectigo industry veterans Jason Soroko and Tim
  Callan, Root Causes is now live on iTunes,
  Spotify,
  Google
  Play, SoundCloud,
  Blubrry,
  and Stitcher.

About Sectigo

Sectigo (formerly Comodo CA) provides web security products that help
customers protect, monitor, recover, and manage their web presence and
connected devices. As the largest commercial Certificate Authority
trusted by enterprises globally for more than 20 years, and more than
100 million SSL certificates issued in over 200 countries, Sectigo has
the proven performance and experience to meet the growing needs of
securing today’s digital landscape. For more information, visit www.sectigo.com.

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