Why Does The Site Need an SSL Certification?
Security should always be a high concern for your website, but do you need an SSL certificate? A secure Sockets layer (SSL) is the process of protecting the data which travels around the internet, so prevent hackers and bots from accessing sensitive information online. Private information like credit card details goes through the different servers and this is where the proper network security and encryption is needed to prevent the hackers from intercepting data. The rule of thumb is that you are responsible for protecting your business and client’s private and sensitive information like financial records, password log-ins, identify numbers, credit card details. How SSL work: In the same way that we use to lock and unlock doors, SSL certificate use keys to validate and protect the sensitive information. The certificate signing request or CSR must also be created on the server. This creates a pair of public and private keys. The public key is used to encrypt the sensit...