SSL Certificate

Clue Design can integrate a Secure Certificates into your website. This will protect your e-commerce payments.

Displaying a Trusted Site Seal tells your customers at a glance that they can trust you. It is a dynamic seal that tells customers that your online site is validated and can transact information safely.

Clue Design is a certified Thawte Reseller. Thawte is a certificate authority (CA) and is our chosen partner because they are a Root CA and they provide one of the strongest authentication standards available.

SSL were created by the Certificate Authority (CA)/Browser Forum, a roundtable of industry experts, to reverse the trend of having to guess whether a website is legitimate.

Under no circumstances do we allow our clients to accept credit card payments without having an SSL certificate installed.

What is SSL & how does it work?

SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer, a protocol developed by Netscape in 1996 which quickly become the methos of choice for securing data transmissions across the Internet. SLL is an integral part of most web browsers and web servers and makes use of the public and private key encryption system developed by RSA. In order to make an SSL connection the SSL protocol requires that a server should have a digital certificate installed. A digital certificate is an electronic file that uniquely identifies individuals and servers. Digital certificates server as a kind of digital passport of credential which authenticate the server prior ot the SSL connection being established. Typically, digital certificates are signed by an independent and trusted third party (a CA such as thawte) to ensure their validity.

Main Functions 

  • An SSL Certificate enables encryption of sensitive information during online transactions
  • Each SSL Certificate contains unique, authenticated information about the certificate owner
  • Every SSL Certificate is issued by a Certificate Authority that verifies the identity of the certificate owner

Who Needs an SSL Certificate

  • You have an online shops accepting credit card orders
  • You need to comply with Privacy and security requirements
  • You process sensitive information such as address, birth date, license or ID numbers
  • You have offices that share confidential information on an intranet
  • You value privacy and want others to trust you

How can you tell is a site is secure? 

Check the address bar of your browser. If a secure session is established the url will change to https: instead of the unsecure http: You can confirm that your browser is in secure mode in the checkout by looking for the padlock icon in the bottom right corner of your browser window. If you click it, it should read:

Issued to: www.yourwebsite.com
Issued by: Thawte Server CA

Clue Design offers a variety of secure certificates, including the follwoing: 

  • SSL Web Server Certificates with EV 
  • SGC SuperCerts 
  • SSL Web Server Certificates
  • SSL123 Certificates 
  • Wildcard Certificates
  • Personal E-mail Certificates

An SSL Web Server certificate enables your customers to view the following:

  • The domain for which the certificate was issued
  • The owner of the certificate 
  • The physical location of the owner 
  • The validity dates of the certificate

If there is a problem with your digital certificate your browser has an inbuilt security feature warning the surfer!

Benefits

  • Boost you security and make it harder for hackers or malicious users to break in 
  • Protect your customers against the growing problem of phishing is making it difficult for website visitors to identify when a website is legitimate and when it is not SSL ensures that users know your website is legitimate and safe to do business with
  • This new standard defines a stronger online identity assurance process and introduces a new browser display method for clearly identifying authenticated sites to the end user 
  • Build trust with your customers
  • Build your brand image
  • Enables encryption of sensitive information during transactions
  • Prevent malicious parties altering your website so that it malfunctions or refuses to service potential clients

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