subject: Importance of Wildcard SSL Certificate [print this page] People are getting smart about online security. Now a day's more and more of them are looking for the lock icon and "https" prefix in the address bar of their browser before submitting personal information online. If your website doesn't have a SSL Certificate, visitors may be little concerned about their personal information before making a purchase, creating an account or even signing up for a newsletter and in the end you'll be at loss. Quality SSL Wildcard certificate involves a two-step support process, resulting in a highly-trusted certificate that enhances consumer confidence.
How it Works:
A SSL Wildcard certificate ensures secure, effortless, and convenient Internet shopping. Once an Internet user enters a secure area - by entering credit card information, email address, or other personal data, for example - the shopping site's SSL certificate enables the browser and web server to build a secure, encrypted connection. The SSL
"handshake" process, which establishes the secure session, takes place
unnoticeably behind the scene without interrupting the consumer's shopping experience.
By contrast, if a user attempts to submit personal information to an unsecured website, a site that is not protected with a valid SSL certificate, the browser's built-in security
mechanism triggers a warning to the user, reminding him/her that the site is not secured
and that sensitive data might be intercepted by third parties.
Wildcard SSL certificates offer you:
Strong 128 bit to 256 bit encryption
Lowest cost, stable single root Wildcard
99% browser recognition rate
Wildcard SSL certificate holder's name
Wildcard SSL certificate's serial number and expiration date
Wildcard SSL certificate holder's public key
Digital signature of the certificate-issuing authority
Wildcard SSL certificate compatibility:
Wildcard Certificates are compatible with most of the current browsers including IE 5.01+, AOL 5+, Netscape 4.7+, Opera 7+, Safari, Mozilla 1+, and Firefox 1+.
Moreover, Wildcard SSL Certificates are supported by any Servers which supports SSL v2 or v3 technology
Web Servers (IIS, Apache, Tomcat, IBM HTTP, Weblogic, Cobalt and many more.)
Mail Servers (Exchange, Lotus Dominos, SmarterMail, Postfix, Courier IMAP, Qpopper and many more.)
Hosting Control Panel (Plesk, HSPHERE, Helm, Ensim, DotNetPanel and many more.)
