What is SSL certificate & why to Buy an SSL cert?

What is SSL certificate & why to Buy an SSL cert?

Is your website secured? If not then here we are to make your site secured with SSL certification. We help your customers feel safe while making any online transactions through your website. We are one of the trusted and authorized providers of SSL certificates in India; we install SGC SSL certificates, EV SSL certificate, SAN SSL certificate, Code signing and Digital certificates from leading certificate providers like Digicert (formerly Symantec), Comodo, Thawte, Geotrust and Globalsign.

WHAT IS SECURE SOCKETS LAYER (SSL)?

The Secure Sockets Layer protects data transferred over http using encryption enabled by a server's SSL Certificate. An SSL Certificate contains a public key and a private key. A public key is used to encrypt information and a private key is used to decipher it. When a browser points to a secured domain, an SSL handshake authenticates the server and the client and establishes an encryption method and a unique session key. They can begin a secure session that guarantees message privacy and message integrity.

WHAT IS SECURE SOCKETS LAYER (SSL)?

• Authenticates the identity of the Web server (the Web site), and
• Encrypts information for the server using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology.

After you install your Digicert (formerly Symantec) Server ID, your server automatically activates SSL, creating a secure communications channel between your server and your customer's/Associate's browser. Your site can communicate securely with anyone who uses Netscape Navigator/ Microsoft Internet Explorer. Once activated by your Server ID, SSL immediately begins providing you secure online transactions and confidential information flow.

WHY SSL CERTIFICATES FOR WEBSITES

Let us look and understand why web-sites need a certificate:

• Real world demands a legal entity to be in existence and be registered.
• We know the companies’ existence and its physical location in the real world.
• The same comfort does not exist on the net. Domain names are cyber squatted easily.
• One can no way link the web site to a physical company, but just TRUST.
• Cost of communication in terms of informing people about the right web site is expensive.
• Privacy on the net needs to be respected since it can easily be violated.
• One would not want to be directed to any incorrect site and be misguided.

LET US NOW UNDERSTAND HOW EACH TYPE OF WEB-SITE NEEDS THE SAME IN A BIT MORE DETAILS.

1. Informative Web-site:

A lot of sites provide information. Company web-site provides Product details, Prices and much more.

• How do I distinguish on the Net that www.satyam-infoway.com and www.satyaminfoway.com don't belong to the same company?
• How can I be sure that I am dealing with the same company on the Net, with whom I have dealing in the physical world?
• I need to be informed through an official communication from the company about the same. Or just Trust that the company is the right company.
• Can I really carry this plain trust on the Open medium like the Net, when I don't do the same in the physical world anyway?

2. Interactive Web-site:

Well they need to cater to all the above and also look into the following issues also.

• Are they respecting their Clients Privacy?
• Just having a plain privacy statement, which does really nothing, is of no use.
• You need to make your clients feel comfortable in providing you information through the web.

3. Any transaction oriented web-site needs security through SSL so the need here is eminent from the 2nd application of the certificate.

4. E-CRM oriented web-sites: well they also need it for the same as the above.