Did you know you might be losing website traffic or customers? Google has begun rolling out Chrome 68 which flags all sites not served over the HTTPS scheme as being ‘not secure’. This means you are likely to lose customers from your website in an environment where hacking and digital fraud is a concern.
This is easily solved by purchasing an SSL certificate for your domain. You need to talk to your website provider to get that all important ‘padlock’. Alternatively, Business Association Silver Member ChillIT can help you out quickly and easily.
Did you know you might be losing website traffic or customers? Google has begun rolling out Chrome 68 which flags all sites not served over the HTTPS scheme as being ‘not secure’. This means you are likely to lose customers from your website in an environment where hacking and digital fraud is a concern.
This is easily solved by purchasing an SSL certificate for your domain. You need to talk to your website provider to get that all important ‘padlock’.* Alternatively, Business Association Silver Member ChillIT can help you out quickly and easily.
For those of a more technical nature here is more information on HTTPS & SSL Certificates.
HTTPS simply means your website has a secure way for transmitting data. An SSL from a trusted certificate authority fight against eavesdroppers as the encryption is end to end. A standard HTTP site just sends plain text during transmission
A SSL certificate is extremely important both to protect you customer’s data, and your image; it guarantees content integrity and the ability to detect tampering. Google ratings already favor sites with https protocol in place.
As Google pushes for these measures to be universally adopted, all other browsers will soon follow, and we can expect harsher measure in the future.
What is a SSL certificate, and how does it work?
SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is a way to confirm your site is secure. Basically it is a digital passports providing authentication to protect the confidentiality and integrity of website communication with browsers.
The authentication process follows this steps:
- A browser or server attempts to connect to a website (i.e. a web server) secured with SSL. The browser/server requests that the web server identify itself.
- The web server sends the browser/server a copy of its SSL certificate.
- The browser/server checks to see whether or not it trusts the SSL certificate. If so, it sends a message to the web server.
- The web server sends back a digitally signed acknowledgement to start an SSL encrypted session.
- Encrypted data is shared between the browser/server and the web server.
Please call us if you would like to discuss your situation and understand how we can help.
*Some sites might require additional configuration to ensure the padlock is displayed and the site fully secured.
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