SSL Certificate ? Enabling Website Security And Protection To Resist Fraud

Posted by James Grieg
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Nov 26, 2010
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An SSL Certificate does no ordinary work for website owners and website users. It is because of SSL Certificates that public internet is working. We trust SSL Certificates for protecting websites and making them safe to deal with important data or messages. They prevent online frauds by securing that a web server sending a certificate to a browser is the right web server and making it impossible to intercept any ingoing or outgoing data on a site for monetary transactions or other necessities.

Not only that they enable the vital website security, but also provide a couple of security signs to notify the users of the same. This is necessary as users themselves can?t see what processes are involved nor can they know whether a site should be trusted to make purchases with credit card or divulge any sensitive data. What all they can see are a couple of security signs.

Only after checking for the presence of these prominent signs that they can confidently carry out any transactions with that business. Every user is now used to notice: a change in the browser address bar (http converts to https), a probable color change to green (a green URL line), and a padlock sign with https web page. These signs should be visible to a customer when he goes to pay on an Ecommerce site; otherwise, he will not continue the process any further.

The complex issue of website security is solved by a third party, called Certification Authority, which issues SSL Certificates with varying encryption and authentication schemas. It?s in their duties to verify a web host to be an authentic one and not any other site pretending to be the same, which would be difficult for the users to check. Making verifications automatic in the browsers, SSL Certificates make users sure of their decision to use those sites. However, if an SSL is not from a reputed third party, it might bring notification to users being not well-known to the browser.
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