{"id":458,"date":"2016-10-29T13:22:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T13:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/?p=458"},"modified":"2017-02-11T13:27:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T13:27:25","slug":"what-is-extended-validation-ssl-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/what-is-extended-validation-ssl-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What is Extended Validation (EV)<\/h2>\n<p>An EV certificate is a new type of certificate that is designed to prevent phishing attacks. It requires extended validation of your business and authorization to order the certificate and can take a few days to a few weeks to receive. <\/p>\n<p>Before an EV SSL certificate can be issued, three important steps need to be performed by the EV SSL Certificate vendor. The steps are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Confirm the existence of the Company through 3rd party sources<\/li>\n<li>Verify that the request has been made on behalf of the company<\/li>\n<li>Obtain mutual confirmation of the request between the Certificate Authority and the requesting party<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Only certificates with extended validation will trigger the green bar in high-security web browsers.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Extended Validation (EV) An EV certificate is a new type of certificate that is designed to prevent phishing attacks. It requires extended validation of your business and authorization to order the certificate and can take a few days to a few weeks to receive. Before an EV SSL certificate can be issued, three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[83,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}