Add to Favorites Web Browsers have now started marking HTTP sites as ‘Not Secure’ with release of Chrome 68+. For the past several years, Google strongly advising webmasters (sites) to adopting HTTPS encryption. Google said that within the last year, they helped users understand that HTTP sites are not secure by gradually marking a larger […]
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Symantec/Digicert Actions Required – Google Reissue
Add to Favorites You May Have to Reissue your SSL Certificate!! Since announcing the acquisition, Digicert has actively engaged with the security community to explore paths that address browser concerns about Symantec/Geotrust/Thawte/Rapidssl-issued certificates while balancing the SSL/TLS implementations currently deployed. Symantec-issued certificates impacted by browser timelines will need to be replaced to bring them under […]
Google Makes Certificate Transparency Mandatory On Chrome.
Add to Favorites Last year Google once again flexed its muscles by announcing the requirement for Certificate Transparency for all new SSL/TLS certificates in October 2017. This has since been pushed back until April 2018. This requirement means that Chrome will no longer trust new SSL/TLS certificates that are not qualified for Certificate Transparency (CT). CT is […]
Symantec/Digicert- Google Reissue You May Have to Reissue Your SSL Certificate.
Add to Favorites You May Have to Reissue Your Certificate!! Since announcing the acquisition, DigiCert has actively engaged with the security community to explore paths that address browser concerns about Symantec/Geotrust/Thawte/Rapidssl-issued certificates while balancing the SSL/TLS implementations currently deployed. Symantec-issued certificates impacted by browser timelines will need to be replaced to bring them under the […]
What Certificate Authorities Do & How Their SSL Certificate Security is Enforced.
Add to Favorites There has been a lot of misleading information flying around within the security industry and various tech blogs regarding Certificate Authorities (CA), Security, and the function of SSL Certificates. Lots of finger pointing with no foundation of knowledge on who does what. The confusion is how encryption keypairs work, controlled, and […]
What is Certificate Transparency?
Add to Favorites Google’s Certificate Transparency is an open source project that aims to strengthen the SSL/TLS certificate system, which is the main cryptographic security system that underlies all HTTPS secure connections. It is a extra tier of certificate security that forms a Security Triad to ensure that clients navigating the internet are safe and secure […]