The common question faced by most online users, is this site secure? This is the challenge faced by most website owners, especially when phishing website is increasing in an alarming rate.The answer to above is installing a SSL certificate. SSL provide security to business owner’s website by encrypting communications between users and web sites. The little gold padlock or the green address bar which begins with a https ensures the authenticity of the website owner. It provides more than a secure connection, and also confidence for the users.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) was the most widely deployed cryptographic protocol to provide security over internet communications before it was preceded by TLS(Transport Layer Security) in 1999. Despite the deprecation of the SSL protocol and the adoption of TLS in its place, most people still refer to this type of technology as ‘SSL’.SSL provides a secure channel between two machines or devices operating over the internet or an internal network. One common example is when SSL is used to secure communication between a web browser and a web server. This turns a website’s address from HTTP to HTTPS, the ‘S’ standing for ‘secure’.Typically, SSL is used to secure credit card transactions, data transfer and logins, and more recently is becoming the norm when securing browsing of social media sites.