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Assignment# 3

IT FOR MANAGERS

Name: ABDUL AHAD SAUD SHAREEF

Reg. ID: 18729

Program: MBA

SUBMITED TO: Zaid Ahmad

Date: 21st February, 2012

TOPIC: VeriSign and Encryption.

"VeriSign and Encryption"

VeriSign:

VeriSign brings trust to the Internet. Billions of times each day VeriSign helps companies and consumers all over the world to engage in trusted communications and commerce. VeriSign is one of the most important enterprise trust authorities in the world, which delivers people safely to more than half the world's websites. A certificate issued by VeriSign will automatically be accepted by both browsers and operating systems. This kind of incident practically voids all the security provided by 64-bit operating systems,"

VeriSign is the leading provider of digital trust services that enable everyone, everywhere to engage in commerce and communications with confidence. VeriSign's digital trust services create a trusted environment through three core offerings—name, security and transaction services—powered by a global infrastructure that manages more than 5 billion network connections and transactions a day.

VeriSign is involved in two distinct, fundamental Internet security structures. VeriSign's function is its role in the Domain Name System address book, which governs what happens when Web users type common name Web addresses into their browsers.  There are 13 "root" DNS servers placed strategically around the planet for redundancy. VeriSign operates two of them. VeriSign's other function is issuing digital certificates through its VeriSign Authentication Services group.

VeriSign, the company responsible for guiding most of the world's Internet users to the correct websites and once the largest encryption certificate issuing authority, has acknowledged that it was successfully hacked several times in 2010.

VeriSign, which acts as a certificate authority and sells software that allows a company to create its own certificate...