ssl

Switch-Mobile treats data, including personally identifiable information, as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. We employ many different security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access by users inside and outside the company. All information we collect from our visitors are stored in databases under our control. Physical...
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Perhaps the most important differentiation between all the SSL certificates available on the market today, is the strength of the brand behind the SSL technology. SSL technology besides ensuring secure transmission of data, is an essential element in providing online customers with the confidence to buy or use a product or service. For example, the...
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The following 10 considerations must be taken into account before deciding which CA and which type of SSL certificate to purchase? Each point will be discussed in more detail later. 1. What type of web site application. Low volume, professional or development? 2. How credible and stable is the CA issuing the SSL certificate? 3. What browser...
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There are actually less than 10 CAs issuing commercially available SSL certificates. The Appendix contains the full list of CAs. Until recently the SSL market has been monopolized by Verisign and Thawte. In 1999 Verisign acquired Thawte, and it became a Verisign subsidiary. In recent years, new global players providing enterprise class solutions such...
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When SSL is first activated on the webserver, the webserver requires information about the identity of the website including the website domain name and company details. The webserver then creates two cryptographic keys – a Private Key and a Public Key. The Private Key is so called for a reason – this key must...
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A trust hierarchy demands that entities “vouch” for each other. Companies that issue SSL certificates are in the business of establishing that entities on the web are, in fact, who they claim to be. The potential for criminal activity on the web (in relevance to SSL anyway), is in online ‘hijacking’ of sites or...
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Some certificates are issued directly by a Trusted Root CA certificate e.g. GeoTrust. The Trusted Root CA certificate is already contained within all popular browsers, and hence is already trusted. Some Certification Authorities do not have a Trusted Root CA certificate present in browsers, therefore they need a “chained root” in order for their...
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When a website visitor connects to a webserver using SSL they will see that the URL in the address bar begins with https:// rather than the usual http:// and also a small gold padlock will appear in their browser, e.g. As seen by users of Internet Explorer Whenever a browser connects to a webserver (website) over...
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If you cannot use SSI (Server Side Includes) with your host, you can try and enable it via the following command in the .htaccess file: AddType text/html .shtml AddHandler server-parsed .shtml Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes The first line tells the server which files it should parse as having SSI. The second line adds the handler that actually parses...
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To configure SSL Proxying Jump to the Resource Manager from the Proxy Manager page. Select the connect://*:443 resource from the list of existing resources (the default HTTPS port number is 443). If you don’t already have this resource, type connect://*:443 in the wildcard pattern text box. (“connect://…” is an internal proxy notation and doesn’t exist outside...
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Web pages are delivered using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). HTTP in itself does not offer encryption or any other substantial protection of data transmitted between users and web servers. With the advent of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s and the goal of extending Web usage to actual business activity involving...
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In today’s market, security products such as SSL VPNs are often sold as appliances, a term used to connote ‘black boxes’ that function without requiring administrators to understand their internal workings. In theory, appliances thereby reduce the overhead costs of installing, configuring, and maintaining an IT system. Although some isolation from the internal technology certainly...
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