EV Certificates

Sectigo Certificate Manager

Requesting an EV Certificate

What is an EV Certificate?

Extended Validation (EV) SSL/TSL Certificates provide the highest trust level within digital certificates. The EV Certificates has industry standards, which must be met.

What is required for an EV Certificate?

An EV Trust Anchor Certificate is required to be able to request an EV Certificate.

The process of an EV Certificate:

You will need to complete the details below, which will need to be sent to certificates@jisc.ac.uk as only Jisc can add these details.

Organisation Details:

Incorporating Agency
Phone Number
Dun and Bradstreet Number
Company Registration Number
Jurisdiction of Incorporation City or Town
State or Province of Incorporation
Country of Incorporation
Date of Incorporation
Business Category (Private Organisation, Government Entity, Business Entity, Non-Commercial Entity).

Contract Signer:

Title
Forename
Surname
Email
Telephone Number
Street
Locality
State/Province
Zip / Postal Code
Country
Relationship

EV Approver:

Specified Admin will be used as EV Approver for automatically approved certificate requests from enrollment endpoints.

(This information can only be added once Sectigo has validated your organisation).

Once these details have been added, you will need to create your EV Trust Anchor Certificate. All domains needed in an EV Anchor must be validated before making the request. Only fully qualified domains need to be included in the EV Anchor e.g. jisc.ac.uk, you do not need to add Sub-Domains. For the full written step by step, please see section 7.2.2. in the Quick Start Guide or you can check out our Video.

Once your EV Anchor is approved, you can request EV Certificates. This process can take up to 72 hours to be approved by Sectigo. EV Anchors are currently valid for a year. When the expiry is due, you will need to request a new EV Anchor (Unfortunately, you cannot renew the same EV Anchor certificate).

Last Updated 14/10/2024