{"id":6266,"date":"2020-04-21T06:47:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T06:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ardorsys.com\/?p=6266"},"modified":"2023-12-06T12:24:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T12:24:24","slug":"what-are-ssl-tls-and-https-guide-to-secure-your-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ardorsys.com\/blog\/what-are-ssl-tls-and-https-guide-to-secure-your-website\/","title":{"rendered":"What are SSL, TLS and HTTPS? Guide to Secure Your Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today several international authorities, private end-users and companies are facing the problem of data spying and misuse. Their data is not going to be safe on digital world. Digitization is not limited to only in private sectors. Private sectors are also moving towards digitization for everything. That\u2019s the reason that most of the companies are giving the first priority to internet security before passing their information over the web.<\/p>\n<p>SSL, TLS and HTTPS are the most essential part of internet security and considered as the standard version of security to protect customer data, company\u2019s internal information, sensitive information and other financial details too. So that their information can be securely transmitted and managed over the web.<\/p>\n<p>Many of you suffer with a red page alerts while browsing any page or website that \u201c<strong>Your connection is not secure or private<\/strong>\u201d The question is why does it appear? What does it mean actually and how to overcome this error if appears everytime? How to implement security protocols for your website?<\/p>\n<p>Here is the detailed overview about SSL, HTTPS and their installation guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ardorsys.com\/blog\/the-beginners-checklist-how-to-secure-your-website\/\">run your website on secure connection<\/a>. Let\u2019s raise the curtain:<\/p>\n<h5>WHAT IS SSL?<\/h5>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">SSL (SECURE SOCKETS LAYER)\u00a0is an encryption-based Internet security protocol that is used to\u00a0encrypt and authenticate data traffic in\u00a0internet communications. In the case of websites, this ensures secure transmission of data between browser and web server.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Sensitive data that is protected by SSL encryption is:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Registration data:\u00a0name, address, email address, telephone number<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Log-in Data:\u00a0email address and password<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Payment information:\u00a0credit card number, bank details<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Entry forms<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Documents uploaded by the customer<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">SSL ensures the privacy, authentication, and data integrity on the network. It helps to not to pass or manipulate your communication by any third party and make sure that personal data does not fall into the wrong hands.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">WHAT IS HTTPS?<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">HTTPS (HYPERTEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL SECURE)\u00a0is an internet communication protocol or we can say an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol that secures your data transmission.\u00a0It is a protocol for securing the communication between two systems e.g. the browser and the web server. HTTP denotes the unsecured variant. In the case of HTTP websites, transmitted data can be read or modified by attackers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">HTTPS encrypts and decrypts user page requests as well as the pages that are returned by the Web server. This works via the SSL certificate or the latest version TLS certificate. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: Cloudflare<\/p>\n<h5><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span>Benefits of SSL\/TLS and HTTPS<\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li>Data protection and security for customers and partners<\/li>\n<li>The risk of data theft and misuse is reduced<\/li>\n<li>Positive ranking factor for Google<\/li>\n<li>Allows HTTP \/ 2 to be used to improve website performance<\/li>\n<li>The certificate is easily recognizable for users and inspires trust<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h5><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">TYPES OF\u00a0CERTIFICATES IN\u00a0SSL\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Different types of certificates differ in the scope of identification.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Certificates with\u00a0domain validation (DV)\u00a0\u2013 Basic<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Certificates with\u00a0owner validation (OV)\u00a0\u2013 More Secure<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Certificates with\u00a0Extended Validation (EV)\u00a0\u2013 the highest level of Authentication<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">You can select any type of SSL certificate according to type of business website and confirm the browsing on a secure network.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>GUIDE TO SSL INSTALLATION<\/h5>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span>Now what to do after purchasing SSL certificate? Well, it\u2019s time to install the SSL certificate on the server. Many of hosting providers offer free SSL with the hosting and you don\u2019t to need to buy separately then if they do so. You can ask them to configure SSL for your website or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ardorsys.com\/website-development-services\/\">hire web developer<\/a> to proceed with the SSL installation step. If you buy SSL from any certificate provider, you will get the manual or corresponding installation instructions to follow. For a technically flawless implementation, the following points are particularly important:<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Correct Certificates<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Correct Encryption<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Suitable Server Configuration<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h5>HOW TO CHECK IF THE SSL CERTIFICATE IS PROPERLY INSTALLED<\/h5>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Now you are all set with the SSL installation. How to check if the SSL certificate is properly installed and all pages of your website are browsing over secure connection (HTTPS). To check the SSL, you need to open your website or refresh it if already open. If SSL is configured properly, you will see that website URL has an \u201cs\u201d after \u201chttp\u201d that means it is encrypted with a valid SSL certificate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><strong>Eg<\/strong>: https:\/\/www.yourwebsite.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The \u2018s\u2019 in the HTTP protocol of the URL stands for \u2018SECURE\u2019 and indicates that this page is successfully encrypted with an SSL certificate.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Google wants to make the web more secure and get website operators to encrypt your pages without exception. According to official statements, pages without encryption will in future be given a red \u2018 X \u2019 in the Chrome browser. HTTPS sites already suggest quality and seriousness because people can easily recognize whether a website is safe or unsafe. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you want to make internet security for your website or browse on a secure network, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ardorsys.com\/hire-php-developer\/\">hire professional web developers<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ardorsys.com\/\">Ardorsys<\/a> with the affordable prices. We will help you to install SSL certificate and ensure the security of your website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ardorsys.com\/quote-us\">Get a free quote<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SSL, TLS and HTTPS are the most essential part of internet security and considered as the standard version of security to protect customer data, company\u2019s internal information, sensitive information and other financial details too. \n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[114,109,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-6266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-web-development","7":"tag-https","8":"tag-ssl","9":"tag-website-security"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ardorsys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ardorsys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ardorsys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ardorsys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ardorsys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ardorsys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7364,"href":"https:\/\/www.ardorsys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6266\/revisions\/7364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ardorsys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ardorsys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ardorsys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}