SSL Certificate and Ecommerce security
February 22, 2010 by Bendigo Web Hosting
Filed under SSL Certificates
Why only few customers use my website out of thousands?
Buyer always check online store (E-commerce) prior to payment process. It is great that you offer good price and good service, but what if your website is not secured for safe payment process. As a new ecommerce businessman or non technical person or as an online buyer you should check this ‘Is this website secured for safe payment process?’ Well first I will let you know hacker safe website always starts with HTTPS://. Website only using HTTP:// is not a secure website as it does not support data security.
How to seller achieve SSL certificate for website?
SSL certificates are used to provide data security over online website. SSL certificates are kind of security certificate and issued by third party (CA-Certificate Authority). Website owner has to apply for website security SSL certificate for along with business and website ownership identity. CA follows domain and business verification process and only issue SSL for genuine request. If seller failed to verify then CA will not issue SSL certificate. Somehow we always used to trust third party verification. There are many CAs like VeriSign, GeoTrust, COMODO, Thawte, RapidSSL, GlobalSign, etc. All this CAs now offering their reseller to sell SSL certificates direct to customers. Resellers are only used to sell SSL certificates the verification and SSL issuance process will be handled by CA it self. So it is safe buying SSL from resellers.
How SSL secures online data?
SSL certificate is developed on basis of data encryption and decryption technology. SSL certificates are used to support 128 to 256 bit encryption and decryption. Seller has to install SSL certificate on his website where is host the website. Once the website is successfully installed with SSL then SSL security site seal should be enabled on home page of website. Now anyone browse website from any PC anywhere in the world, enters CC or personal information. These all content will be encrypted before it travel from PC to Server. So data is secured on road. No one can decrypt and read this data. Only seller website server can encrypt and read this. This is type of End to End strong security.
Running a SSL secured ecommerce website will increase your customer trust and this trust will lead you to more business. I believe is as a buyer or seller always use only SSL certificate secured website. Thus you will never get abused with private data stealing or money loses.
Author of this article is experienced person have been working in SSL
industry since last few year. He is working with the company providing SSL Certificates, Geotrust ssl
certificate, Thawte SSL certificates and many more. Author have contributed
various articles in blog and websites.
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