SSL Certificate

The deadline for migrating to SHA-2 is upon us, here’s how to do it.

With Google’s recent announcement that a deadline had been set for the final deprecation of SHA-1 support on its Chrome browser, any company or organization that hasn’t already migrated to SHA-2 is now scrambling to complete the process.

Read More How to Switch from SHA-1 Encryption Algorithm to SHA-256

A quick overview of the security vulnerabilities OpenSSL faced over the past year.

OpenSSL is a software library that contains an open-source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols. It is written in the C programming language and allows servers and applications to implement basic cryptographic functions while also providing various utility functions.

Read More OpenSSL: A History of Security Vulnerabilities in 2016

The browser will warn its users about bad sites for 30 days

In many ways the web browser community has the ability to regulate the internet—to be the arbiters of good behavior. Think about it, the average internet user can’t access anything on the internet without using a browser – Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge – which means those browsers have the ability to shape the direction of the web.

Read More Google Takes Big Action – Punishes Spammers in Chrome

As the internet evolves, SSL is no longer just suggested—it’s required.

The internet is evolving, and as it continues to advance so too does the sophistication and prevalence of the hacking and cybercrime that has always been synonymous with it.

Fortunately, the browser community is pushing back—it’s pushing for a baseline level of security across the entire internet. That baseline level of security is SSL encryption.

Read More What You Should Know About SSL Encryption

Publicly logging the SSL Certificates they issue helps CAs to be more accountable

The SSL ecosystem is a complicated one. Certificate Authorities must be trusted by the browsers in order to issue certificates to businesses, organizations and individuals which will then install and configure those certificates on various kinds of web servers in order to facilitate encrypted connections between their websites and the millions of users surfing the internet.

Read More How Certificate Transparency Changes the World of SSL

A quick peek at the inner-workings of your website’s Security Certificate

You’ve gone through the trouble of purchasing an SSL Certificate, installing it on your server and configuring your website so it’s served over HTTPS. But have you ever stopped to think, how is this all working?

Read More How Does a Website Security Certificate Work?

Despite the universal push for encryption, we’re still not using HTTPS properly

It’s the year 2016 and there’s a large push being made to encrypt the entire internet. The public seems to want universal encryption amid growing concerns over personal privacy caused by leaks and breaches. The browser community wants to implement universal encryption as a way to phase out HTTP and move towards HTTP/2.

Read More HTTPS: The Major Issues that Users Face While Implementing HTTPS

GeoTrust QuickSSL Premium Vs RapidSSL Certificate are two of our most popular certs, let’s take a closer look at each

It’s time to make a decision, you’re looking for a cheap, domain validated SSL certificate to encrypt your website with—there’s two you’re looking at, GeoTrust’s QuickSSL Premium and RapidSSL.

Read More GeoTrust QuickSSL Premium Vs RapidSSL – Choose Affordable Option

You quite literally cannot afford to be without Symantec Encryption

Do you care about your customers?

Of course you do. You kind of have to, it’s what keeps you in business. Regardless of whether you’re selling something, you need to think of the people who visit your website as customers. Whether it’s blog posts, photographs or actual goods and services, everyone who visits your site is consuming something.

Read More 15 Big Reasons to Upgrade Your Website Security to Symantec