HTTP + SSL = HTTPS
On February 8 2018, Google announced they would eventually mark all the sites that are encrypted with HTTP as “not secure”. Google also announced they will give more priority to the site which is encrypted with HTTPS and can bring those sites to the top SERP results. When you load a site over HTTP, your connection to the site is not encrypted and not secure which means anyone on the network can easily access your site and gathers the information and can even modify the contents on your site before it gets to you. Whereas, with HTTPS your site is totally secure and encrypted and no one on the web can steal the data so that all your personal information such as passwords and credit card numbers were totally secured and cannot access by a third eye.
This is how a site without HTTPS shows warning to the users :
An important part about HTTPS is SSL. This SSL protocol enables encryption and helps to secure the websites information from being stealed.
The encrypted channel in HTTPS is created using Transport Layer Socket (TLS) protocol, also known as, Secure Socket Layer (SSL).
The term HTTPS or Hyper Text Transfer Protocol was invented and coined by Tim – Berners-Lee and his team at CERN in 1989 and has been widely used as the default communication protocol. HTTPS first establishes an encrypted communication channel, and then transmit information from the browser to the client. HTTPS has many benefits over HTTP because it is more secure and encrypted.
Here are some benefits of using HTTPS:
Increased Website Rankings
Better Referrer Data
AMP Requires HTTPS
HTTPS Security helps in following ways.
- It makes your website secure for your visitors.
- It protects your data from being sniffed.
- It prevents tampering of data.
- It prevents content spoofing and phishing.
- It encrypts communication in every form including the URL, passwords, browsing history etc.
Spectrum Softtech Solutions Pvt. Ltd. one of the leading providers of SSL certificates with the best encryption features which makes your website more safe and secure and helps to get higher priority in search engine rankings. Currently, we offer SSL Certificates based on the various levels of security such as;
- Domain Validation (DV) Certificate
- Organization Validation (OV) Certificate
- Extended Validation (EV) Certificate
On our Next blog we can learn about the security levels of these 3 certificate validation.
