CPS-Datensysteme Partners with GeoTrust Europe to provide SSL to its German Speaking Customers

Major German Internet Service Provider to Offer GeoTrust SSL to its ISP and Web Host Customers to Enable Secure Ecommerce

February 2004, Maidstone, London, UK and Neuwied, Germany. GeoTrust Europe, a leader in identity and security solutions for e-business and the second largest certificate authority worldwide, today announced that CPS-Datensysteme, a leading provider of Internet services to ISPs and Web Hosting companies in German speaking countries, has selected GeoTrust to provide SSL digital certificate products and services to its network of merchant customers. The partnership will allow CPS-Datensysteme to offer its merchant customer base the ability to secure their online transactions using highly trusted 128 bit SSL encryption.

The partnership gives CPS-Datensysteme the ability to directly provide its merchant customers with GeoTrust Europe’s QuickSSL Premium™, True BusinessID™ and True BusinessID Wildcard™ certificates. QuickSSL Premium offers strong 128 bit encryption in as little as 10 minutes, providing the fastest provisioning of professional quality SSL available today. GeoTrust’s QuickSSL Premium comes packaged with a “Smart Seal” for display on the SSL certificate owner’s web site. The Smart Seal guarantees online customers they will receive the highest levels of encryption possible, and assures customers that credit card numbers and other confidential information cannot be intercepted or altered.

True BusinessID is a combined solution of both a traditional 128 bit SSL certificate and a True Site “Smart Seal”. The True Site product ensures a site's legitimacy with a dynamically generated site seal image including the company name of the site owner and a time/date stamp. Also available through CPS-Datensysteme will be True BusinessID Wildcard, providing all the features of True BusinessID but includes a single SSL certificate that can be used to secure multiple sub domains, eliminating the need for a web site to manage multiple SSL certificates across multiple sub domains.

“Our merchant customers demand strong, credible security solutions to secure their consumer’s transactions, but also require fast issuance and of course cost-effectiveness.” comments Felix Weigand, CEO of CPS-Datensysteme, “Our partnership with GeoTrust Europe delivers everything we need to provide our customers with secure transactions and customer confidence. We look forward to a close relationship with GeoTrust Europe.”

“GeoTrust Europe’s partnership with CPS-Datensysteme will provide excellent exposure of GeoTrust products into CPS-Datensysteme’s extensive ISP and Web Host network within the German speaking countries.” comments Paul Tourret, Managing Director of GeoTrust Europe, “We are extremely pleased to be partnering with CPS-Datensysteme, who have a long standing reputation for excellent customer care and an innovative approach to the European hosting and domain name market.”

QuickSSL Premium, True BusinessID and True BusinessID Wildcard are now available through CPS-Datensysteme at www.cps-datensysteme.de.

About CPS-Datensysteme
CPS-Datensysteme is based in Germany and is a leading provider of domain names for service providers and agencies and holds over 750 strategic ISP and Web Host customers. CPS-Datensysteme is focused on the European arena, and provides product support for the German-speaking countries including Germany, Austria and Switzerland. At present CPS-Datensysteme maintains over 50,000 domain names and processes more than 500 domain name transactions every day. CPS-Datensysteme also provides associated technologies to German speaking providers and agencies, including SSL Certificates. CPS-Datensystem can be reached at
http://www.cps-datensysteme.de or +49 (0) 180 5 805 205.

About GeoTrust
GeoTrust is a leading provider of next generation information security services that address the fundamental need for e-business security and confidence. Our award-winning next generation technology delivers secure e-commerce transactions, identity verification and trust authentication services to the global web community - an important step toward leveraging the full business potential of the Internet. More than 70,000 customers in 140 countries use GeoTrust security services to conduct business efficiently and cost-effectively over the Internet and wireless networks - including Fortune 1,000 companies throughout every industry. GeoTrust provides e-business security that helps drive revenue, profitability and growth, while maintaining business continuity. GeoTrust is the second largest digital certificate provider in the world and has offices in the U.S., Europe and Japan.

GeoTrust Europe can be reached at www.geotrusteurope.com or +44 (0) 1622 764789.

GeoTrust is a registered trademark of GeoTrust, Inc. QuickSSL, QuickSSL Premium, Enterprise SSL, True BusinessID, are trademarks of GeoTrust, Inc. All other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.