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===Verisign authentication===
On May 19, 2010, Symantec signed a definitive agreement to acquire [[Verisign]]'s authentication business unit, which included the [[SSL certificate|Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate]], [[Public Key Infrastructure]] (PKI), Verisign Trust and [[Verisign Identity Protection]] (VIP) authentication services.<ref>{{cite book | last=Termanini | first=R. | title=The Cognitive Early Warning Predictive System Using the Smart Vaccine: The New Digital Immunity Paradigm for Smart Cities and Critical Infrastructure | publisher=CRC Press | year=2016 | isbn=978-1-4987-2653-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G4lUCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA85 | access-date=March 25, 2017 | page=85}}</ref> The acquisition closed on August 9, 2010. In August 2012, Symantec completed its rebranding of the Verisign SSL Certificate Service by renaming the Verisign Trust Seal the Norton Secured Seal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trustico.com/rebranding/verisign-to-norton-rebranding.php |title=VeriSign Rebrands To Norton – Get Norton Secured Seal For Your Site |publisher=Trustico.com |date=April 15, 2012 |access-date=July 11, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729015126/http://www.trustico.com/rebranding/verisign-to-norton-rebranding.php |archive-date=July 29, 2013 }}</ref> Symantec sold the SSL unit to [[DigiCert]] for US$950 million in mid 2017.<ref name="Sayer 2017">{{Cite web|title=How Symantec solved browser trust issue for its SSL certificates|url=https://www.csoonline.com/article/3213664/symantec-sells-its-problem-ssl-unit-to-digicert-for-1b.html|last=Sayer|first=Peter|date=August 3, 2017|website=CSO Online|language=en|access-date=May 23, 2020}}</ref>