For customers and the market, the acquisition will present a number of problems. From a security standpoint, "do you want to buy the certificate for your security appliance from the same vendor that makes the appliance?" says Davis. "In security, separate of duties is key to many best practices." At the same time, though, the move may give existing and future VeriSign SSL customers piece of bind. "It places these businesses with a dominant security market leader, so that may actually give them greater assurance going forward than they may have had with VeriSign, who has been actively seeking to sell off its security assets for some time," says Crawford.