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Importance Of SSL – Securing Data Sharing

23rd December 2016 by thom Leave a Comment

What is SSL?

As website owners and IT professionals, I am sure you are well aware of SSL. But just in case, God forbidding you don’t, here’s a brief intro. SSL i.e., Secure Sockets Layer is a security mechanism that is devised to secure the transmission of data between the website and the end user. More specifically, the aim of Secure Sockets Layer is to secure the personal information of users such as your credit card numbers, social security numbers and your login details which are prone to attacks from hackers. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Security, Webhosting Tagged With: Encryption, Privacy, security, ssl

What you should know about Let’s Encrypt

9th December 2016 by thom Leave a Comment

Let’s Encrypt is a Certification Authority (CA), which makes it easy and free to receive TLS / SSL certificates via an automated system called certbot, thereby allowing the use of an encrypted connection HTTPS. At the moment, the service is in beta test and receive a certificate in a fully automatic mode, it is possible only when using a web server Apache. The idea is simple: download and open to web server with a single command code request and install the certificate and configure it for use, everything is automated, like a boss! For example, let’s try to enable SSL on Apache. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Privacy, Security Tagged With: lets encrypt, ssl

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