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Frost & Sullivan Analyst Paper, ‘Six Golden Rules for Selecting an SSL Certificate’

The foundation of trusted Internet communications are Secure Socket Link (SSL) certificates, an encryption technology installed on Web servers that permits transmission of sensitive data through an encrypted connection. Using a Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI), SSL certificates authenticate the end-use Website and the endpoint server, making it difficult for those sites to be imitated or forged.

The acquisition of SSL certificates should always be a relatively easy experience; however, the purchasing decision should never be regarded lightly. When businesses consider SSL certificates; there six Golden Rules a purchaser should keep in mind.

At the end of the day, people want to make sure their Web sites are secured with as little friction as possible—Symantec gives businesses every opportunity to achieve that goal.

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Website Security for Dummies

Symantec demystifies the science behind SSL authentication, encryption and more in the world-famous ‘For Dummies’ style, it’s The How-To Guide to keeping a company safe from online threats.

Learn to:

  • Make the business case for website security
  • Explain how SSL forms the foundation of great website security
  • Choose and implement the right SSL certificates for your website
  • Follow best practice for maintaining a healthy and trusted website

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Short Guide to Protecting Against Web Application Threats

Although there is no single security measure than can prevent all threats, there are some that provide broad—based mitigation to a number of threats. The use of SSL encryption and digital certificate‐based authentication is one of them.

In this paper learn how SSL encryption can protect server-to-server communications, client devices, cloud resources, and other endpoints in order to help prevent the risk of data loss. Also included is a step-by-step guide to assessing your needs, determining where SSL encryption and digital certificate-based authentication may be helpful, planning for the rollout of SSL to Web applications, and establishing policies and procedures to manage the full life cycle of SSL certificates.

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Spoofing Server-Server Communication: How You Can Prevent It

Learn how to prevent the new SSL Strip threat that could compromise your secure applications. In this must read white paper, “Spoofing Server-Server Communication: How You Can Prevent it,” written by security analyst Larry Seltzer, you will learn about the new advances in attacks that exploit weaknesses of generic SSL to compromise server-server communication and how you can help prevent it.

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