DigiCert announced on Oct. 31 that is has completed the $950 million acquisition of Symantec's website security and PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) business assets, which include the company's SSL/TLS certificates.
The deal was first announced on Aug. 3, with the goal to help improve the PKI infrastructure for Symantec's certificates, which had been under scrutiny by Google and other web browser vendors.
"The whole point in putting these two companies (DigiCert and Symantec) together is about consolidating the technical side of the business," John Merrill, DigiCert CEO told eWEEK. "Some of the platforms on the Symantec side were a bit older and had been called in to question by Google, while our platforms are generally more modern."
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