Today Comodo, the Internet security specialist and company behind the hugely successful InstantSSL product range, has announced an industry first with its extension to the facilities available to its InstantSSL Web Host Reseller partners. The Automated SSL Certificate Request System allows Web Host Resellers to fully integrate the SSL Certificate application and issuance process into their own bespoke Web Hosting facilities providing a unique “click and install” feature.

A number of major web hosting companies are already using the automated system to integrate the ‘click and install SSL’ feature into the site management consoles used by customers to manage their hosted websites. This provides the web hosts customers with immediate SSL security through the simple click of a button!

“Click and install SSL will revolutionise how SSL is provided by hosting companies to their end customers,” states Paul Tourret, Managing Director of Comodo Ltd, “It really is as simple as the customer clicking a button to request SSL, then almost instantly we can issue and install the SSL Certificate on the hosts webserver! There is no need for the customer to ever worry about the technicalities usually associated with SSL Certificates, including the complex CSR generation and certificate installation.”

The “click and install SSL” method is also proving popular with Web Host Resellers who wish to retain use of their own web forms in the application process. Application data can be submitted automatically to the InstantSSL Certification Authority, avoiding the need for the web host’s personnel to be involved in the data submission process.

The new programme greatly enhances how Web Host Resellers, who are typically ISPs, web hosting companies and e-commerce site providers, can offer customer’s InstantSSL - the industry’s most cost-effective SSL. Tourret expects the InstantSSL automated system to become the de facto choice for all Web Host Resellers offering secure site facilities. “A combination of the low cost, high speed of issuance, strength of validation and industry renowned customer service have attracted a great number of web host resellers to our partner network. We are confident that the new automated system will prove essential for any hosting company providing secure sites to their customers.”

Other Certification Authorities charge up to 18 times more than InstantSSL for identical industry standard SSL Certificates. Web Hosts around the globe have found that such reduced prices can dramatically increase the competitiveness of their own product bundles through the InstantSSL Programmes. As well as cost benefits, Web Host Resellers can now add unsurpassed convenience to the growing list of benefits available to InstantSSL partners.

InstantSSL has experienced resounding success since its launch earlier this year. With its combination of cost effective 128 bit SSL Certificates, fast issuance without the compromise of strong validation, high browser compatibility and expert customer care InstantSSL is uniquely positioned in the SSL Provider market

A strong part of InstantSSL’s market position results from the use of Comodo’s IdAuthority to help expedite SSL Certificate applications. This unique facility is also used to ensure applications made through Web Host Resellers are validated and issued quickly whilst maintaining the strong level of validation expected in SSL issuance.

More details for the Web Host Reseller programme (and other partner programmes) are available at www.instantssl.com

Editors: for further information on this subject, please contact:
Paul Tourret, Comodo Ltd. Tel: +44 1622 832700. Email: paul.tourret@comodo.net

About InstantSSL:
InstantSSL Certificates are guaranteed to be the most cost effective 128bit SSL certificates available today. With multiyear, multisave options, InstantSSL Certificates are a fraction of the price of comparable certificates from other CAs. Being technically identical to certificates issued by other CAs, InstantSSL Certificates are a new driving force in the widespread availability and affordability of SSL security for web servers.
Website: www.instantssl.com

About IdAuthority & the Identity Assurance infrastructure:
Verification is the key to establishing trust. Comodo operate the world's largest and only real-time website identity assurance infrastructure. An infrastructure capable of serving billions of identity assurance requests, known as "trusts", to end users through a variety of products and services. This certificate based system is the largest in the world, with over 15 million identity certificates already issued.
Website: www.idauthority.com

About Comodo:
Comodo is a leading Internet security specialist and provides next generation E-commerce Security Solutions. Through a growing range of products, services and applications developed by its dedicated research lab, Comodo provides software, hardware and certificate based security to home and business users.
Website: www.comodo.net