Summary: SSL certification has been found
to be very reliable across, Internet users and also among the customers. For E-Commerce
and other Web-site owners, the SSL certification acts as a stamp of credibility and
assurance of safety to their valuable customers.
The seamless world of the Internet has broken open the physical barriers that existed
across regions on the Globe. Today, therefore, you could be sitting in Munich and buying
goodies from Seoul. Very convenient, and thrilling. But, when you pay for your goodies and
swipe you’re Credit Card, are you sure, you are paying only for what you paid for?
Chances are your Credit Card Information traverses through alien territory into the wrong
pair of hands. The result, the next morning, you will find your Bank account eroded or
emptied? Not a situation that most of us can afford or enjoy.
How do we then transact on the Internet and yet safeguard
our hard earned monies from those Electronic pirates? The answer is relatively simple.
Every time you choose to buy product or services through web-sites, before entering your
Credit Card and other personal information look for information on whether the payment
gateway is secured.
Payment gateways are secured through SSL or Secured Socket
Layer. When you enter your personal and or Credit Card information into a secure site, an
encrypted public key is created. This is termed as a handshake to authenticate safe
transaction. The unique encryption method which gets established in the process will have
a unique session key. This process protects theft of valuable data and only the
transaction that you intend to complete is processed.
SSL certification has been found to be very reliable
across, Internet users and also among the customers. These certificates are issued by a
reliable and trusted authority, the Certificate Authority. The web-site through which you
are attempting to transact business carries signs of the agency which has issued the SSL
certificates. “VeriSign, SSLGenie, Thawte” are prominent certifying agencies,
across domains. There are other similar agencies too, which offer these SSL
certifications. When you click on the sign, the details of the certifying agency are
displayed.
When you click on such secured domains, your system
generates a SSL handshake which is accessed by the web-site server. The unique encryption
method employed then allows a secure transaction to go through.
Why all this bother?
When you are transacting valuable business or even sending
across precious data, it is necessary to route them through secure servers which have the
seal of security such as an SSL certificate. In the absence of this Security, it would
compare with sending a snail mail in a transparent envelope.
For E-Commerce and other Web-site owners, the SSL
certification acts as a stamp of credibility and assurance of safety to their valuable
customers.
For the Service Providers and other Vendors/Merchants in
the Internet world, exhibiting their site security sign – a reputed one at that, not
only assures the customer that the information he parts with will be securely handled, but
also separates them from the crowd. Informed customers would always prefer to transact
their business through secure sites and this will automatically bring in more business to
Websites secured through SSL certificates from well known providers. |
