On October 31, 2017, DigiCert, Inc. officially acquired Symantec Corporation’s Certificate Authority business, which includes all assets related to Symantec’s website security, SSL/TLS and PKI products. As the first phase of this transition, beginning on December 1, 2017, Symantec, GeoTrust, RapidSSL and Thawte certificates will now be issued from a new, upgraded PKI where the validation processes will be performed by DigiCert on behalf of Symantec.