What is an SSL Certificate?
The Internet is your portal to millions of potential customers. Transferring your business online means convenience and accessibility as required by your customers and partners, helping you stand out over your competition.
With the provision of more and more services through your website and the constant rise of online transactions, security is essential. Customers need to be reassured that all their sensitive information, for example, a credit card number, is directed towards a legitimate online business. Websites need to safeguard their customers’ privacy by keeping their data private and secure.
SSL Certificates are basic aspects of data encryption, which renders online transactions secure. They are a sort of digital passports, providing authentication to preserve the confidentiality and integrity of communication from a website to a browser.
The task of an SSL Certificate is to start secure sessions within the user’s browser, through an SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) Certificate protocol. This secure connection cannot be performed without the use of an SSL Certificate which digitally links business data to an encryption key.
Any company having to do with eCommerce needs to have an SSL Certificate installed on its website to safeguard the security of customer and partner business data as well as the security of financial transactions performed on the website.