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The security of your digital assets and your
customers' private information should be an important factor you
take into account when planning your e-commerce site. Thousands
of incidents of online fraud and theft are reported each year and
many more go unreported to save the victim company from losing customer
confidence. You can prevent your site from becoming a target of
such crimes by using common sense in dealing with your customers'
private information and by implementing the industry standard security
technologies: secure socket layer
and site identity certification.
Secure
Socket Layers:
Secure socket layer or SSL is an encrypted communications protocol
designed to prevent packet-sniffing attacks. The use of digital
keys allow the server to lock the data packets before sending them,
so that only the legitimate user can unlock them to view their contents.
Secure
Identity Certificates:
Site identity certificates, also know as SSL certificates, allows
a web browser check the credentials of the web site it is displaying
to the user. If a hacker tried to redirect the browser to his own
site, impersonating your site, the certificate would not match and
the browser would display an error.
These two technologies work together
to make your site very unattractive to would-be cyber criminals.
ShonLee Studios includes free, shared
versions of both SSL and site certificates with each of our virtual
server web hosting plans and we encourage our clients to put them
to use. For greater security and end-user confidence we recommend
purchasing a certificate specifically for the domain name of your
site. See our detailed article on site identity certification of
an explanation of the differences.
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