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Individuals who want to purchase SSL certificates are relatively simple. For small sites, consider obtaining a free certificate through STARTSSL. It is also possible to obtain a free certificate for the service using a simple command line interface through the Letsencrypt project. But for large companies, the company already has the protocols and the procurement process required to purchase certificates, as it has previously needed to buy a large number of certificates for its customers. This means that the whole process may take a long time, but in the end it only takes the certificate to the security team. This company intends to use a certificate with Extended validation (EV) for the following reasons:

• A symbol of further trust.
• The price is not much more than the ordinary certificate
• Only this type of certificate can show a green lock icon in Microsoft Edge Browser, and only this type can show a green lock in most other browsers, which is important from a security standpoint

In order to obtain an EV certificate, you must not only digitally certify that you are the owner of the site, but also prove that you are actually present. The hardest part of this site is the verification of a third-party company, because the domain name of the site is registered for the company and can therefore legitimately be registered as a parent company's corporate identity. This may be done by communicating with the legal team and adjusting the company name in the domain name record to match the company's registration record. It was no trouble to solve the problem, but it took four weeks to get there.

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