Digital Certificate: Ensuring Security Online

Digital Certificate: Ensuring Security Online

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Success of any online entity depends heavily on a term called ‘traffic’ representing the amount of visitors coming onto the site. But, whether it’s the element of doubt triggering procrastination or simply ignorance on one’s part in the web born virtual world, receiving and sending of sensitive information still corresponds to doubts of web users.

Most of the users still don’t find it secure enough to share personal information. And why they shouldn’t be? Given the wide instances of fraud and the probability of fragile code security, any sensitive netizen would think twice before participating in an information sharing practice, let alone online monetary transaction.

So, is security a prime concern why users leave sites when asked to put their information? Yes, up to a very great extent! But things are bettering on a slow yet steady pace – thanks to the ecommerce business solutions providers for bringing innovative safe and secured digital certificates.

Used in conjunction with a robust encryption system, digital certificates are more like an attachment to an electronic message issued by third party CA (Certification Authority) of the likes of Thwate or VeriSign. These third party certificate authorities are responsible for the confirmation of identity factor of the certificate holder besides providing assurance to the site visitors about the security of the site. The encrypted digital certificate contains the applicant’s public key and a number of other information such as name, a serial number, expiration dates and the digital signature of the certificate-issuing authority. Any ecommerce website development or ecommerce software solution led digital certificate initiative always sticks to these information fragments.

Like digital certificates, public key encryption is also a secure tool helping ecommerce website design companies bring conviction among clients about the high-level security levels offered by these tools. Public key encryption uses Secure Socket Layers or more popularly SSL in encrypting data between e-commerce websites and customer’s computer. And interestingly, all these are now readily available with any security software solution provider that contributes highly to any affordable ecommerce web development requirements.

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Help answer the question about SSL certificate

What is an SSL certificate?
What happens if I don't renew it? I run a website and from what I can tell SSL certificates are only necessary if you are selling something directly on your site… is this a correct assumption? My website is information based site and though there is a sign in area there we do not sell any products directly from the site… do I need to renew this?

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I am the webmaster at www.synapse-consultants.com – a ecommerce website development company offering numerous services, such as content management, offshore software development, online marketing, search engine optimization, search marketing, and website maintenance services.

18 Responses to “Digital Certificate: Ensuring Security Online”

  1. MustLoveDingos says:

    *sub*

  2. Gapfruit says:

    can’t believe it’s drawn out of nothing, could be a photography!

  3. imtrudil80 says:

    Incredible! He looks so life like. Just amazing…and what a beautiful subject

  4. Linda Leigh L says:

    I know on windows if you get that error, you have to make sure the date, time abd year are correct on the comp. and make sure the comp. is in the correct time zone. Im not sure if its the same with a mac, but its worth a try.

  5. Aaron Escobar says:
  6. rorybellows says:

    If all of their personal information is being gathered through Pay Pal then no there is no reason to get an SSL Certificate. Just let them politely know that they will be making their secure purchased through Pay Pal.

    If you are gathering information such as their name, address and other personal information it could be wise to have an SSL on your site. For example, will it be a shopping cart software that stores all their information, and just for payment send it off to Pay Pal? If so, you want the SSL protecting the part where the user is logging in and editing personal information.

  7. Forbidia says:

    Brilliant Willy, Just Brilliant =D

  8. jacobjohnfrance says:

    you can buy one from anyone who sells them. I like GoDaddy.com

  9. neuralzen says:

    If it's the same domain then it should work fine. The only problem woud lbe if they were different domains, because the oen thats not right would get a message that pop ups every time you try to connect using it, and people would think your site is bad.

  10. argh.pirate says:

    yes and no. you do have to have an ssl certificate for ssl to work, but if you create your own, it is not a publically trusted certificate. the person on the other end has to trust that you are who you say you are. you may say, but i am. that is correct, but I also could pretend to be you.

  11. antoniob35 says:

    whoa!!it looks like a PICTURE!
    ur an amazing painter!:D

  12. champ0y says:

    You’re really good man. You’ve got excellent talent.

  13. Hermann759 says:

    Great talent Der Mann.

  14. Bunny Doctor101 says:
  15. JackO7 says:

    These links could help you:

    http://customersupport.networksolutions.com/article.php?id=777

    https://www.geotrust.net/resources/cert_reissuance/index.asp

    http://www.thawte.com/reissue/

    Good Luck !!!

  16. monkeymanbob says:

    Nice work, you did pretty good.

  17. HappyNotGrumpy says:

    Excellent work. Pleasure to watch. Perfect music :-) ))

  18. netsploit says:

    1. No, you can't (at least not from an accredited company). EV stands for extended validation. Verification of identity is one of the requirements for extended validation.

    2. The companies issuing EV SSL certificates must pass an audit before they are allowed to do so. Some well known companies are http://www.VeriSign.com, http://www.Entrust.net and http://www.DigiCert.com/ev-ssl

    See the EV SSL Certificate FAQ for more info on EV SSL issuing criteria: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Validation_Certificate

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