E-Commerce Internet Security Services
Internet has been growing substantially day-to-day which has lead way to a new era of Internet Threats in the eCommerce world, where lot of sensitive financial transaction is being carried out such as
Credit-card transactions
Internet / Online Banking transactions
Social Security Numbers (SSN)
Online Shopping - Buying and Selling Online
Personal Confidential Information
Highly Sensitive & Highly-Confidential company information
Hence Internet has seen substancial growth in online commerce activitis, e-commerce relies on the ability to send information safely and securely over the internet. Inorder to have Ecommerce information security, the security architects recommends SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) Certificates, which provides encryption and authentication for a safe and secure website transaction.
What is Encryption & Authentication?
Encryption and authentication work hand-in-hand to create a safe and secure environment over the internet. Encryption is the process of securing all the data that is being sent from one computer to another and then encoding it into a form which the other computer will be able to decode the encrypted material using certian kind of algorithms using the encryption systems – Symmetric Key and Public Key Encryption.
Symmetric-key encryption:
Symmetric-key are kind of algorithms used by cryptography to decode an secret key that use identical keys for both decryption i.e decoding and encryption i.e. encoding. Symmetric-key encryption can also be termed as private key or secret key.
Public-key encryption:
Public-key encryption is the combination of both public key as well as the private (Symmetric) key. The private or symmetric key is known only to your computer whereas the public key is provided by your computer to any computer which wants to communicate over the internet securely with it. Inorder to decode an encrypted mail or message, a computer must use the public key that being provided by the originating computer and its own private or symmetric key.
Authentication:
Authentication is the verification of information whether it comes from a trusted source. In simple terms, if an information is said to be "authentic," i.e. secure you will know who it belongs to or created it and also you need ensure that it has not been altered/modified in any way other than the person created it.
How SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) Encryption does works in securing e-commerce?
Information security is provided on computers and over the Internet by a various types of methods. One such method is SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) Certificates, which is basically a bit of information that says that the Web server is trusted and secured by a Certificate Authority (CA). The certificate authority (CA) confirms the computer's identity which in fact is who it claims to be, by a strong verification and validation method, which then provides the public keys of one computer to the other.
In simple terms SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is an protocol used by the Internet browsers or any web application servers to transmit sensitive information over the internet. When a person visits a website, where certain kind financial transactions or confidential personal identity needs are to be provided, the user needs to ensure whether the website he is in, is secure or not. So to identity the website is sucure, the user need to check if the website has got an SSL certificate. If there is an SSL Certificate installed you will notice that the "http" in the address bar of the browser starts with "https," and at the status bar located at the bottom of the browser you will see a small golden padlock which symbolizes that you are on a secure website which is been encrypted.
The SSL works when two computers initiate to have a secure session over the internet, one computer creates a Private / symmetric key and sends it to the other computer which inturn uses a public-key encryption which is decoded to have a secure website session. Once the session is finished, the computer discards the symmetric key used for that particular session and then any additional sessions that is required, automatically a new symmetric key is being created, and the same process is repeated with different alogorithms to start a new secure session.
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