Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “SSL”
Introduction SSL certificates are tools that enable you to make your server more secure. These data files make the connections between a server and a browser safer. They are the difference between an HTTP and an HTTPS website. The way an SSL certificate works is that it encrypts your data stream, vets out the traffic, and verifies user identities. It …
OpenSSL is an open-source cryptography library that includes a variety of commands used in the TLS Protocol and Public Key Infrastructure. OpenSSL was released in 1998 and is available for Windows, Linux, macOS, and BSD systems. The OpenSSL command will help you perform various tasks including Certificate Signing Request (CSR), private keys generation, and SSL certification. OpenSSL is important because …
Having a secure website is vital to ensuring a reputable online presence for any business. Website security should be among your top concerns especially if you are transferring sensitive data between your website and your website visitors. A simple Google search of ‘how to secure a website’ will bring you several directives. One of the top results is an SSL …
Website and data security are topics that cannot be taken lightly. Highly sensitive information which includes financial records and customers’ private information is always in transit between the user’s computer and your website. When you consider this fact, it’s not hard to see why unsecured websites could result in a breach that could seriously damage your business. There are a …
For those in a rush: this blog post shows you how to use free SSL certificates and have then renew perpetually (in theory) so they are near zero hassle to use. It is always nice to automate things. This saves you a lot of time and lets you concentrate on the things that actually matter and make a difference. Renewing …
At CloudSigma, we take security very serious. Since the very beginning, all our web app (the cloud control panel) and our API has been configured to accept SSL connections only. We’re now happy to announce that we’ve also moved our regular marketing site (i.e. this) to only run SSL as well. For those not familiar SSL, it’s a way to …
With the recent Heartbleed security vulnerability affecting a significant part of the world’s secured internet traffic, most companies have been taking the precaution of renewing their SSL certificates as it is possible to compromise the keys for these certificates using the Heartbleed vulnerability. Unfortunately, many browsers won’t automatically check for revoked certificates (including the most popular Google Chrome). We highly …
