With cyber-criminal activity on the rise and website owners looking to create a safer place for their users when browsing, SSL certificates cannot be overlooked. HTTPS protocol ensures the data sent from your computer to the site your are browsing is encrypted and securely transmitted. HTTPS websites are much more recognized now by internet users, as being more safer and trustworthy when browsing. This summer we are also expecting the safety issues to become even more rigorous. With the new release of Chrome 68, Google will mark all sites that haven not adopted HTTPS as not secure. Sites using HTTPS letter in the url will be listed as green and secure.
Some important reasons as to why you should consider using SSL certificates:
SSL (Secure Socket Layers) certificates have been available more than twenty years. Having an SSL ensures that the sensitive data of your website’s visitors will be transferred over a secure network. SSL certificates will protect the sensitive data being transmitted from and to your website. Protecting sensitive information and data. Specific types of SSL certificates known as “Wildcards” let you secure your main website and all it’s subdomains with one single SSL certificate. Another important benefit of SSL certificates is that they will help you gain trust from new visitors. Your website will display a security padlock in the address bar of the browser. SSL is also good because of HTTP/2 which browsers only support through secure connnections. HTTP/2 makes your websites faster to load which can improve your user experience and organic search rankings.
Setting up SSL certificates:
Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the non-profit Internet Security Research Group. If you are unsure how to go about configuring and setting them up. It is recommend to discuss with your web developer. Devradius as well offers these services.