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The Internet is growing faster than ever and today an increasing
number of people are using the Internet to fulfil
their needs. Every day people rely on the Internet for the purpose of purchasing products
and services.
The increased use of the Internet for commercial and business
transactions has also increased the number of cases of fraud
online. Thieves are now actively stealing financial
information that people enter into non-secure websites. As a result, the demand for
trustworthy and secure websites has increased exponentially.
This is where
our SSL Certificates
have a major role to play. The “SSL” in SSL Certificates stands for
“Secure Socket Layer” and allows a website to provide a medium for safe
and secure data transmission. SSL Certificates help a website encrypt data before transmitting it to the server. While it is easy to
read data that is un-encrypted, a website using an SSL Certificate can’t be intercepted or read easily.
Technically an
SSL Certificate is the web
standard for encrypting the data between the user (customer) and the e-commerce
website. The data sent over the SSL connection is secured and protected
through encryption. Encryption means that data is heavily jumbled before
it is transmitted and can only be read after it is un-encrypted.
SSL Certificates are mainly used for e-commerce websites.
An e-commerce website can be any website that sells or provides products
or services over the Internet. It can also be a website that requires people
to fill in their personal information for services that are to be
provided for various other reasons. Basically, an e-commerce website would be
more or less a business website where some sort of transaction is necessary.
If you have an e-commerce website, then people are bound
to visit it for purchasing the products or services you are providing. However
if your site is not secure you will not be able to convert those visitors
into customers or even retain those who purchase from you once. Most
visitors will check that a website has an SSL Certificate before
deciding to purchase a product or service.
Usually such transactions over the Internet require
the entry
of private information such as credit card details, phone number, mailing
address, etc. A website that does not have an SSL Certificate can not guarantee
the security of the data being entered and customers may consider the
website a security risk. Due to
this, the demand for SSL secured websites is growing day by day.
More and more online businesses are becoming aware of the plus
points of having their website secured with an SSL Certificate. With the SSL certificate seal displayed on your
website, your business will generate confidence in customers to purchase
products or services from your website.
The most visible sign of a website being SSL secured
is of course the SSL Site Seal that becomes an integral part of a website
once it gets a SSL certificate. Additionally, customers can easily come
to know when a particular session becomes secured; as soon as a session
becomes secure the URL starts with https:// instead of the regular
http:// and a padlock is usually displayed in the browser.
Certain browsers show a different coloured address bar
when the session is secure. While SSL Certificates are largely used
for security of Internet websites and web-servers, they can also be used
to secure mail servers such as IMAP, POP3 and SMTP for mail collection /
sending security.
Which Type Of SSL Certificate Should I Trust?
Single Root SSL Certificates are the most highly trusted
certificates available. The reason behind this is that some Certification
Authorities do not own a Trusted Root CA Certificate already present in
browsers. Some providers don't own a Trusted Root CA Certificate,
so they tend to sell Chained Root SSL Certificates. We only provide
Single Root SSL Certificates.
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