SSL Certificates
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What is an SSL Certificate? With today's fears of Internet fraud and identity theft, people need to know and have guarantees that when they send information online it is safe and secure. They need to have the assurance that that information cannot be intercepted and used maliciously either to steal their money or identity. Nowadays, the number of transactions being conducted via the World Wide Web is now upwards of $200 billion dollars a year and rising. This means that more and more people are turning to the web as the one convenient way of making transactions. What does that have to do Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology? Everything. A Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protects your Web site while it sends information and makes it easy for develop trust in you.
What a SSL Certificate does is it encrypts sensitive data as it is sent via the Internet during online transactions. This is especially ideal if you have a website that sells products and services and where customers are opt to give out confidential information such as credit card numbers. Most of these stores are those that accept orders online. SSL Certificates are also crucial for extranet websites where there are many employees who have different access to various systems. For instance, upper management can have certain secure access to say, payroll information that regular employees cannot have. Whenever a business manager for instance sends a payroll timesheet to the payroll department, SSL Certificates are used to encrypt the information.
SSL Certificates are also used where a business has offices in multiple locations. This enables the offices to share confidential data via the Internet without fear of interception because the data is encrypted. Companies that also handle public confidential information are also required by the government to employ SSL Certificates. These are companies that process for instance, birth dates, social security numbers, driver license numbers and credit card numbers.
SSL Certificates are unique and are issued by an issuing authority which has the capability to verify the SSL Certificate's owner. SSL Certificates consist of private and public keys. The public key's sole function is to encrypt the data as it is sent from point A to point B while a private key decrypts it. If the transaction is occuring via the web, the SSL Certificate authenticates the transaction between the web browser and the server and validates its integrity.
SSL Certificates are uniquely created for a particular server and are issued by an issuing authority that verifies the identity of the issuing owner for instance Verisign. If the there is no match or the certificate has expired, the browser returns an error message or warning which the customer is supposed to act upon. Without SSL Certificates, sensitive information would travel via the Internet in full view and malicious parties can easily intercept it.
Verisign is the Internet's most trusted SSL Certificate issuer and is used by over 90% of all large and reputable corporations, banks and businesses. The Verisign seal is recognized the world over as a symbol of trust and integrity