Jim Bidzos

Jim Bidzos is President and Chief Executive Officer of Verisign. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors and has been Executive Chairman since August 2009.

As the founder of Verisign, Jim is an internet and security industry pioneer whose accomplishments include building RSA Security into the early standard-bearer for authentication and encryption, and launching Verisign as a company in 1995 to develop the digital certificate infrastructure for internet commerce.

Before returning to the President and Chief Executive role in August 2011, Jim served as Verisign’s first President and CEO and also served as Verisign’s Chairman of the Board of Directors from April 1995 until December 2001, as Vice Chairman from December 2001 to July 2007, and as interim CEO from July 2008 to August 2009. Jim served as President and CEO of RSA Security from 1986 to February 1999, and then served as RSA’s Vice Chairman from 1999 to May 2002.

Jim was named one of Time Magazine’s “Digital 50,” and is in CRN’s Computer Industry Hall of Fame.


    Recent posts by Jim Bidzos:

    Introducing Verisign Informed™: A High-Assurance Solution for Validating Trust at the Speed of Modern Threats

    • By • Security

    New technology is accelerating global reliance on digital infrastructure, yet also enabling and surfacing new security threats. Among these is “stale trust,” in which critical trust decisions are made based on out-of-date validation information. Verisign Informed™ addresses this problem by enabling trust decisions to be made using current status information for any digital certificate transaction, reducing online and enterprise risk.

    There are two clear trends that together present significant risks to online commerce, privacy, and security. The first is a perennial and increasing reliance on digital services, and this reliance is increasing rapidly with the growing use of AI. We see this increasing reliance in the rapid growth of transactions in the DNS infrastructure we operate. Over the 7-year period 2016-2022, the average number of daily DNS transactions Verisign processed rose by a compound annual growth rate of 9.3 percent; in the 3-year period 2023-2025, the compound rate nearly doubled to 17.3 percent. Our analyses indicate that an increasing segment of this growth is driven by rapid AI deployment.

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