Visa International Selects Baltimore Technologies to Provide Secure E-Commerce Infrastructure

Baltimore Technologies' Secure Web Access Solution Offers Flexibility in Meeting Consumer Demands for Secure Online Payment Programs

Visa International has selected Baltimore Technologies' secure web access solution to provide the infrastructure necessary to secure, protect and authenticate online payment transactions for member banks, their customers, and online merchants worldwide.

This Baltimore secure web access solution enables Visa to operate its own digital certificate management system and issue Visa-branded digital certificates -- online credentials that validate a person's online identity.

"Validating a digital certificate is the electronic equivalent of a consumer looking for the Visa acceptance flag in a merchant's store window, or a merchant checking the consumer's signature on the back of a Visa card," said Tom Manessis, vice president of Internet and Acceptance Channels at Visa International. "Our Visa-branded digital certificates give our Member banks the confidence and security they need to deliver digital certificates to their own merchants and consumers. They help ensure that transaction information remains secure and confidential and that only authorized parties can participate in the transaction. Baltimore Technologies' secure web solution helps build this strong chain of trust that is essential to Visa and our member banks."

Visa digital certificates provide improved protection of card numbers and other confidential information sent across the Internet. By using sophisticated cryptographic techniques, these digital certificates make cyberspace a safer place for conducting business and will boost consumer confidence in electronic commerce by making Internet transactions as safe as those made "face to face" in brick-and-mortar merchant locations.

After an extensive review of competitive vendors, Visa selected the Baltimore Technologies secure web access solution, which met or exceeded Visa's strongest requirements. Visa is also committed to the adoption and development of public key infrastructure technology (PKI) -- software and systems that issue and manage digital certificates -- in which Baltimore Technologies products play a critical role. Baltimore Technologies' proven technology lets Visa deploy new electronic commerce initiatives in a secure manner that meet the online payments market demands of Visa and its worldwide membership of financial institutions.

"Baltimore Technologies products and services help Visa and its member banks transition into the e-commerce economy without compromising the security that their customers have known in the brick-and-mortar world," said Paul Paget, vice president of business development, Baltimore Technologies Americas. "Visa's Baltimore-based certificate authority will continue to solidify Visa as a recognized and trusted leader in the Web marketplace."


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