Email Solutions
Email security that provides flexible protection
Email Security Certificate Options
Basic S/MIME
- Digitally signed and encrypted emails for a single address
- Secure messaging with any number of recipients, including group threads
- No additional identifying information beyond email address
- Ideal for personal email communications requiring privacy
Individual Validation (IV) S/MIME
- Validates your first and last name in the digital signature
- Ideal for professionals such as: Lawyers, Accountants, Engineers, Doctors, Notaries
- Assures clients they're communicating with the verified individual
- Fully encrypts emails to intended recipients
- Builds professional credibility through an authenticated identity
Organization Validation (OV) S/MIME
- Validates your organization's name in the digital signature
- Prevents CEO identity fraud and corporate impersonation
- Ideal for functional addresses such as support@, billing@, or admin@
- Encrypts emails containing sensitive business information
- Protects against data theft and brand abuse
Sponsor Validated S/MIME (formerly known as IV + OV) S/MIME
- Validates both individual and organizational identity in the digital signature
- Maximum trust and credibility for executive communications
- Prevents email tampering inside and outside your organization
- Ideal for C-suite executives, senior and middle management, key personnel
- Strongest defense against sophisticated impersonation attacks
Common Mark Certificates (CMCs)
- No trademark required
- Instant brand verification (Displays your logo next to the sender name just like VMCs)
- Accessible for all businesses including startups, small businesses, and non-profits
- Enhanced security protects against email fraud and impersonation with visual indicators
- DMARC & BIMI compliance
- Faster time to market and implement brand verification without waiting for trademark registration
Verified Mark Certificates (VMCs)
- Instant brand recognition
- Enhanced security that provides a visual indicator to protect recipients from phishing attempts
- Increased email engagement
- Trademark verification
- DMARC & BIMI compliance integrates with email authentication standards for advanced protection
- Brand protection prevents cybercriminals from impersonating your organization
Keep Your Business Protected with Email Security Solutions
SSL.com offers a comprehensive suite of email security solutions designed to authenticate your identity, encrypt sensitive communications, and build visual trust with every message you send. Whether you’re an individual professional, a growing startup, or an established enterprise, our diverse email certificate solutions provide the protection your communications demand.
Quick Comparison
| Basic S/MIME | Individual Validation (IV) S/MIME | Organization Validation (OV) S/MIME | Individual + Organization Validation (IV + OV) S/MIME | Verified Mark Certificates (VMCs) | Common Mark Certificates (CMCs) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary Validation | Email Address Only | Individual Identity | Organization Identity | Individual + Organization Identity | Trademark + Domain Authentication | Brand Identity (No Trademark) |
| Ideal For | Personal users seeking privacy | Professionals (Lawyers, Accountants, Engineers, Doctors, Notaries, etc.) | Organizations, companies, and departments (support@, billing@, admin@) | Executives, senior and middle management, key personnel | Brands with registered trademarks | Startups, small businesses, non-profits |
| Key Benefits | Basic encryption and signing; secure personal email | Verified identity; encrypted and authenticated professional communication | Corporate validation; anti-fraud and brand protection | Maximum trust; prevents internal and external tampering | Visual brand authentication; phishing protection; compliance | Affordable brand verification; quick setup; visual trust indicator |
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Email Solutions FAQs
S/MIME certificates protect your email content through encryption and digital signatures. They ensure that your messages cannot be read by unauthorized parties and prove that emails haven't been tampered with in transit. S/MIME certificates also authenticate the sender's identity at varying levels (individual, organization, or both).
VMCs and CMCs don't encrypt email content but instead display your brand logo directly next to your sender name in recipients' inboxes. Many organizations bundle both solutions together: S/MIME to secure sensitive content and VMC/CMC to build brand trust and recognition.
Verified Mark Certificates (VMCs) require a registered trademark with your country's trademark office (like USPTO in the United States). VMCs are ideal for established brands and enterprises that have already invested in trademark protection.Ā
Common Mark Certificates (CMCs) were created specifically to make the brand logo display accessible without trademark registration. You only need to prove your logo has been in consistent use for at least one year.
If you're unsure, consider what identity you need to prove: your email address only (Basic S/MIME), yourself as an individual (IV S/MIME), your organization (OV S/MIME), or both (IV + OV S/MIME).
