SSL Hosting

SSL is backbone of secure Internet and protects sensitive information which travels across the world’s computers networks. SSL is an essential to protect website, even if this doesn’t handle the important and sensitive information like credit cards. SSL provides data integrity, critical security and privacy for users personal information and websites.

Encrypts the Sensitive Information
Primary reason is that why SSL is being to keep the sensitive information and sent across the Internet. It is very important because information which you send from one computer to the another computer so that information may reach to the destination server.

Any computer between different servers can see sensitive information, usernames and passwords and credit card numbers if this is not an encrypted with SSL certificate.

When SSL certificate is being used and information becomes unreadable to everyone except server you are sending information to. This protects it from identifying thieves and hackers.

Provides Authentication
In an addition to the encryption, SSL certificate provides authentication also. It means that you can be sure that you sending information to the sight server is correct.

Nature of Internet means that customers will be sending information through the several computers. Any of these computers pretend to be website and trick that your users sending information to the servers.

It is possible to avoid that by using proper PKI i.e Public Key Infrastructure and getting SSL Certificate from trusted SSL provider.

Why SSL providers are important? SSL providers only issue an SSL certificates to verified company which has gone through the several identity checks. These types of SSL certificate, like Certificates, EV SSL require more validations. How you know that SSL provider is a trusted one?

Trusted SSL providers only issue an SSL certificate to verified company which has gone through the several identity checks. Certain types of SSLs like EV SSL certificates need more validation than the others. How you know that SSL provider is trusted one. You can use SSL Wizard to compare different SSL providers which include most of the web browsers.

SSL Gives Trust
Web browsers give cues, like green bar or lock icon, to make the visitors know when connection is secured. It means that you will trust on more websites when they see the cues and will be ready to buy SSL certificate from you.

SSL providers also give a trust seal which instills more trust in customers. Phishing attacks are being protected by HTTPS. Phishing email is an email which is being sent by criminal who try to impersonate website. Email usually includes link to own website or uses man in middle attack to use own domain name.

Because this is very difficult for criminals to receive proper SSL certificate, they will not be able to impersonate perfectly to your website. It means that users will be far less to fall for phishing attack because they will look for the trusted indicators in browsers like green address bar.

SSL is being required for PCI Compliance
In an order to accept the credit card information on website, you must pass on the certain audits which show that you are complying with PCI i.e Payment Card Industry standards. It is one of the requirements which properly use an SSL Certificate.