Fortifying Brand Identity: GMO GlobalSign Introduces Verified Mark Certificates for Secure Email Authentication and Brand Trust

BOSTON & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 4, 2025--

GMO GlobalSign, Inc. a global Certificate Authority (CA) and leading provider of identity security, digital signing and IoT solutions, today launched its line of Verified Mark Certificates. GMO GlobalSign’s Verified Mark Certificates (VMC) provide authentication and verification for email senders, ensuring that email recipients readily recognize trusted brands, fostering confidence in opening their emails. As part of the launch, GlobalSign is also announcing a partnership with Valimail, the leading automated email authentication solutions provider. GlobalSign is partnering with Valimail to enable their customers to achieve automated DMARC enforcement, a requirement for implementing Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI), thereby protecting email domains from unauthorized use.

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According to a November 19, 2024, report by Statista, 240 million emails are exchanged every minute worldwide and SoPro's The State of Prospecting 2024 report found that 67% of B2B buyers prefer to be contacted via email. In parallel, a new report by pen testing company Astra says that 3.4 billion emails are malicious. Much of this activity is fueled by the growth of Artificial Intelligence tools. Clearly, enterprises have a need to ensure their messages have, in fact, securely reached their customers, and that bad actors are not spoofing them. GMO GlobalSign’s new VMC solution helps solve this problem by ensuring that – with seamless authentication, enhanced trustworthiness, and improved deliverability – email communications will have a much higher rate of success of reaching intended recipients.

“Valimail ensures only authorized email displays a GlobalSign customer’s logo, letting recipients know the email is authentic,” said Kevin Dunne, COO of Valimail. “Through this partnership, GlobalSign’s clients protect their email and brand, while increasing brand visibility, trust, and customer engagement. This partnership ensures a streamlined path to robust email authentication and brand protection.”

“While email spam is not new, businesses today must still combat it in addition to serious email-based attacks. With our new offering, companies now have a better way to protect their brands by using this product,” said Ashish Dhiman, Product Manager, GMO GlobalSign. “The introduction of VMC adds another product to our portfolio by providing certified and trusted email messages for any organization.”

Dhiman added: “Our newly established partnership with Valimail is an important part of the story due to DMARC being a critical part of the Verified Mark Certificate solution. By working closely with them, GlobalSign customers using our Verified Mark solution will better protect their emails from attacks such as spoofing.”

Once an organization’s identity is verified, a Verified Mark Certificate is issued for their domain and logo, serving as proof of authenticity. Emails sent by verified senders are signed using cryptographic methods. Recipients' email clients then verify the sender's identity against the VMC, displaying their logo as a visual indicator to signify that the email is from a trusted source. To use a Verified Mark Certificate a company must possess a registered logo.

The Benefits of GMO GlobalSign’s new Verified Mark Certificates are numerous.

To learn more about GMO GlobalSign’s new Verified Mark Certificates, visit https://www.globalsign.com/en/verified-mark-certificate

About GMO GlobalSign
As one of the world’s most deeply-rooted certificate authorities, GMO GlobalSign is the leading provider of trusted identity and security solutions enabling businesses, large enterprises, cloud-based service providers, and IoT innovators worldwide to conduct secure online communications, manage millions of verified digital identities and automate authentication and encryption. Its high-scale Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and identity solutions support the billions of services, devices, people, and things comprising the IoT. GMO GlobalSign is a subsidiary of GMO GlobalSign Holdings, K.K. a member of the Japan-based GMO Internet Group, has offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit https://www.globalsign.com.

Introducing GMO GlobalSign's Verified Mark Certificate solution. Verified Mark Certificates from GlobalSign ensure seamless authentication, enhanced trustworthiness, and improved deliverability for email communications.

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia’s parliament on Friday appointed right-wing populist politician Janez Jansa as the new prime minister, in a shift for the small European Union country that was previously run by a liberal government.

Lawmakers backed Jansa in a 51-36 vote in the 90-member assembly. The new prime minister will need to come back to Parliament within the next 15 days for another vote to confirm his future Cabinet.

Jansa's appointment concludes a postelection stalemate in Slovenia after a parliamentary ballot two months ago ended practically in a tie. Former liberal Prime Minister Robert Golob's Freedom Movement won by a thin margin but he was unable to muster a parliamentary majority.

Jansa and his populist Slovenian Democratic Party signed a coalition agreement this week with several right-wing groups. The new government also has the backing of a nonestablishment Truth party that first emerged as an anti-vaccination movement during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The new term in office will be the fourth for the veteran Slovenian politician. Jansa, 67, is an admirer of U.S. President Donald Trump and was a close ally of former populist Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who was defeated in a landslide election last month.

Jansa in a speech listed the economy, fight against corruption and red tape, and decentralization as key goals of the future government. He has promised to lower taxes for the rich and support private education and healthcare.

Critical of the previous government's alleged “inefficiency," Jansa said the new government will turn Slovenia into “a country of opportunity, prosperity and justice, where each responsible citizen will feel safe and accepted."

Like Orban, Jansa was staunchly anti-immigrant during the huge migration wave to Europe in 2015. Also like Orban, Jansa has faced accusations of clamping down on democratic institutions and press freedoms during a previous term in 2020-2022. This led to protests at the time, and scrutiny from the European Union.

Golob in his speech described Jansa as “the greatest threat to Slovenia’s sovereignty and democracy."

Alleging that Jansa had threatened to arrest him, Golob said Jansa's "idea of democracy is that anyone who dares speak a word against you deserves only the worst.”

Jansa, a supporter of Israel, also has been a stern critic of the Golob government's 2024 recognition of a Palestinian state.

The vote on March 22 was marred by allegations of foreign influence and corruption. The around 2 million people in the Alpine nation are deeply divided between liberals and conservatives.

Janez Jansa, center, addresses the Slovenian Parliament during a session in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Friday, May 22, 2026, before appointing him as prime minister, ending a political deadlock after tight elections in March. (AP Photo/Igor Kupljenik)

Janez Jansa arrives for a session of the Slovenian Parliament in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Friday, May 22, 2026, before appointing him as prime minister, ending a political deadlock after tight elections in March. (AP Photo/Igor Kupljenik)

Janez Jansa addresses the Slovenian Parliament during a session in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Friday, May 22, 2026, before appointing him as prime minister, ending a political deadlock after tight elections in March. (AP Photo/Igor Kupljenik)