General SSL

CAA Checking for SSL Certificates

Jul 7, 2025

This page covers CAA checking for SSL Certificates overview and recommended solutions for common errors. At the completion of this procedure, you will be able to know more about CAA checking for your SSL Certificates and troubleshoot common errors.

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Order SSL Certificate

Jul 31, 2025

This page walks you through the process of ordering a new GlobalSign SSL Certificate. At the completion of this procedure, At the completion of this procedure, you will be able to place an order for your SSL Certificate.

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Customize Start and End Dates - SSL Certificates

Feb 3, 2025

Customizing the Start and End Dates of an SSL Certificate.

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Securing a Public IP Address - SSL Certificates

Jul 11, 2020

Introduction An SSL certificate is typically issued to a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) such as "https://www.example.com".

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POODLE Vulnerability Affects TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1

Jul 2, 2020

It has been recently discovered that the POODLE vulnerability affects more than simply SSL 3.0. Improper checking of TLS “padding” means that the vulnerability may also be used to exploit TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1.

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CVE-2014-0160 - Heartbleed

Apr 25, 2025

Late Monday, April 7th, 2014, a bug was disclosed in OpenSSL's implementation of the TLS heartbeat extension.

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OpenSSL - Critical Vulnerability (versions 3.0.0 to 3.0.6)

Nov 21, 2022

OpenSSL announced the discovery of a critical vulnerability, requiring a new version (3.0.7) that has been released on November 1, 2022.  Please check our blog found here for a detailed information. 

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BILLmanager - Add a New Integration Module

Nov 9, 2023

This article describes how to add a new integration module for BILLmanager.

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ICA Revocations and Remediation Steps

Jul 25, 2025

The Certificate Authority (CA) industry was alerted of compliance implications related to the inclusion of a specific extension (OCSP-signing extended key usage) in CA certificates which has, under certain conditions, unintended compliance and security implications. A number of GlobalSign Issuing CAs have been impacted by this issue. While no key compromise or security incident has taken place, we will be revoking these Issuing CA’s as part of our remediation plans in accordance with the CA/B Forum Baseline Requirements and the GlobalSign CPS. Revoked intermediate certificates can cause errors in the validation of certificates signed by these intermediate certificates.

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