SSL Certificate Benefits – How Comodo SSL Helps to Secure Your Site

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“Identity Verification” is a must these days

Seriously, how can one trust someone on the internet? How can you be so sure that a website belongs to the party that it says it? What if someone creates a website by someone else’s name and runs a scam to trick users into giving their sensitive information? That’s why an SSL certificate is of paramount importance. The very first part if you want to issue an SSL cert is the verification/vetting process. A trusted, third-party entity named ‘Certificate Authority’ conducts the vetting procedure to make sure of your legitimacy so that only the legitimate people/organizations get hold of the certificates. The rules and regulations of this verification process are set by CAB forum – a joint forum of the CAs and browsers.

SSL safeguards your data through “Encryption”

As far as the encryption part is concerned, an SSL/TLS certificate protects data-in-transit. It means that any information you send/receive on an SSL-enabled (HTTPS) website. It can’t get more secure than this. All of Comodo SSL certificates feature robust 256-bit symmetric encryption, something that cannot be cracked by the fastest supercomputer in the world in thousands of years. So, wave bye-bye to your worries about data security.

“Trust Indicators”: You must show what you got

Let’s say you just installed an SSL cert on your website. How are you going to make your visitors aware of the fact that the website really belongs to you? You must show them some evidence in the form of indicators, right? Well, an SSL certificate will take care of that, too. Once you install your certificate, your site is equipped with the trust-signs that vouch for your legitimacy and let the users know about it. The nature of these indicators depends on the type of certificate you’ve purchased. However, signs such as padlock, site-seal, and https at the front of your URL are common amongst all. If you want to display your company name in the highly sought-after Green Address Bar, you must purchase an Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificate.

It’s a matter of “Trust”

Another thing we’d like to point out is that many organizations, and people tend to think that SSL is only needed if you want to carry out financial transactions on your website. This belief is as wrong as it gets. Even if you don’t have such provision, you need SSL. That’s because all the leading browsers including Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari, have started labeling non-HTTPS sites as ‘Not Secure’ in a matter that the users can’t ignore it. This could and would damage your online reputation. So, in a way, an SSL certificate makes a user/visitor feel secure on your website and enhances his/her online experience.