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Awards & Recognitions 1996-2002

VeriSign's continued contributions to the industry have been recognized with many prestigious awards and recognitions including:

• Network Magazine named Guardent (now VeriSign) as its 2002 “Managed Security Services Provider of the Year.”
• Massachusetts Interactive Media Council (MMC) selects Guardent (now VeriSign) Managed Security Services as “Best of Security” winner
• VeriSign ranks #8 on InfoWorld 100 list of innovative companies in 2002
• Stratton Sclavos receives the 2002 Northern California Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for e-Business
• VeriSign takes home SUPERQuest award from SuperComm 2002
• VeriSign, Inc. Receives Harvard Business School Alumni Association of Northern California Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award
• VeriSign, Inc. Receives San Francisco American Marketing Association Award
• VeriSign® OnSite 4.6 Receives Editor's Choice Award from Network Computing
• Stratton Sclavos receives Morgan Stanley Leadership Award for Global Commerce for outstanding leadership and positive contributions to the worldwide information technology revolution at the 14th annual Computerworld Honors "Search for New Heroes" celebrations (June 4, 2001)
• VeriSign's "Payflow" won first place in the Electronic Bill Payments category for Network Computing's 2001 Annual Well-Connected Awards
• VeriSign was named one of the "Internet Business 100" top Web sites for payment systems by PC Magazine, March 2001
• VeriSign, Inc. ranks #170 on Forbes 500s 2001
• Stratton Sclavos ranks #43 on Forbes Top CEOs 2001
• Information Security Magazine Excellence Awards 2001 for Online Encryption Presented at Infosec World 2001
• Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd. recognizes VeriSign as Most Valuable Partner--Americas, 2001 (March 13, 2001)
• VeriSign Ranks 6th on Forbes ASAP's Top 20 Annual List (February 19, 2001) Network Solutions ranked #5 on the 2000 Virginia Fast 50. (October 17)
• VeriSign ranked #5 on the 2000 Silicon Valley Fast 50. (September 2000)
• Fast Track Award 2000 Awards. (Arthur Andersen/Arent Fox/Roggs Bank/Washington Business Journal) (September 2000)
• VeriSign, Inc. Joined the Nasdaq-100 Index on (June 9, 2000)
• NSI Joined the Nasdaq 100 Index on (March 10, 2000)
• Association for Corporate Growth, National Capital Chapter--Emerging Company Award 2000. (March 2000)
• Network Solutions was named to Fortune Magazine's e-50 index. This index is meant to capture the Internet's effect on the economy as it broadens beyond a niche to encompass much of the business world. (December 6, 1999)
• Network Solutions' Chief Executive Officer, Jim Rutt, was ranked 56th among Upside's 1999 Elite 100 list. This roster was developed by Upside editors to represent the most important participants in the New Economy, individuals that brought us a year of successes, innovations, mergers and buyouts. (November 19, 1999)
• For the first time ever, Network Solutions is ranked 49th on Inter@ctive Week's Internet 500 list, a comprehensive ranking of e-commerce companies on the Web. (November 15, 1999)
• Network Solutions ranked 45th among Worth Magazine's 1999 list of the Web's 50 Fastest-Growing Companies. (November 1999)
• Network Solutions is 65th among Bloomberg Personal Finance's 1999 ranking of the 100 Fastest Growing Tech Companies. (October 1999)
• Network Solutions is 18th among Internet World's 1999 ranking of the 50 biggest pure-play Internet companies. (September 1999)
• For the second year in a row, Network Solutions received a FastTrack Award for revenue growth, ranking 12th among the 50 fastest-growing companies in the metro area in 1999. (September 1999)
• Network Solutions was listed among "The Standard 100," the Industry Standard magazine’s list of the most important companies in the Internet economy. (September 1999)
• USA Today ranks Network Solutions in the e-business 50, which tracks the 50 stocks of the Internet 100 that build Internet equipment and conduct business-to-business transactions on the Net. Companies include Cisco Systems, Inktomi and Network Solutions. ( August, 1999) Network Solutions Named to Deloitte & Touche's Virginia Technology Fast 50. (July 9, 1999) Network Solutions ranks #37 on BusinessWeek's Info Tech 100. (June 21, 1999)
• Inter@ctive Week ranks Network Solutions #10 in its list of the "Fast 50" Internet companies with the most 1998 financial momentum. (June 11, 1999)
• Business 2.0 recognizes Network Solutions as 46th in the list of 100 leading companies of the Net Economy. (May 1999)
• Network Solutions ranks 91st among the top 100 largest public companies in Washington DC and it's surrounding suburbs in the Washington Post Top 200. (April 26, 1999)
• Network Solutions made the top five lists in both "market value growth" and "stock price gains" in the Forbes 500 list of America's leading companies. (April 19, 1999)
• Network Solutions ranked ninth among Internet companies evaluated by UPSIDE magazine for market share, leadership, innovation, overseas strength, strategic alliances and management. (February 1999) Network Solutions named the top IPO in 1998 in the Washington area with a stock price increase of more than 250%, according to The Washington Post. (Dec 6, 1998) Business Week ranks NSI 33rd in its list of Info Tech 100. (November 2, 1998)
• FastTrack Awards recognize NSI as 20th fastest-growing company in Greater Washington. (September 1998)
• Individual Investor Magazine ranks NSI 37th in its list of America's 100 Fastest Growing Companies based on revenue. (Oct 1998)
• Internet World ranks NSI 25th in its first list of the top 50 pure Internet companies by revenue. (September 14, 1998)
• Computerworld Smithsonian Medal for Innovation. (1997)
• John C. Dvorak Telecommunications Excellence Award for "Outstanding Commercial Internet Company of the Year". (1996)