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~ Never take any risks when it comes to your server\u2019s security!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n W<\/b>hile your business will surely offer more and more online services and transactions, internet security becomes both a priority and a necessity for your customers\u2019 online transactions, to ensure that sensitive information \u2013 such as a credit card number and personal information \u2013 are only being transmitted to legitimate online businesses like yours.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In order to keep customer information private and secure, you will need to add SSL certificates to your website, which are an essential component of the data encryption process that makes internet transactions secure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In other terms, SSL are digital passports that provide authentication to protect the confidentiality and integrity of website communication with browsers.<\/span><\/p>\n The SSL certificate's job is to initiate secure sessions with the user\u2019s browser via the secure sockets layer (SSL) protocol. This secure connection cannot be established without the SSL certificate, which digitally connects company information to a cryptographic key.<\/span><\/p>\n There are many benefits to using SSL certificates. Namely, SSL-based websites can:<\/span><\/p>\n Here is how SSL certificates work:<\/p>\n When using a self-signed certificate, you\u2019re essentially vouching for your own identity. It\u2019s like writing \u201cI have graduated\u201d on a piece of paper and considering it your official graduation certificate. While you might be excellent in your academics, people aren\u2019t going to trust your self-created certificate! They\u2019d want the document to be issued and signed by an official institution such as a college or university.<\/span><\/p>\n In much the same way, no browsers, email clients, or operating systems are going to trust digital certificates that are signed by the entities they\u2019re designed to validate. Hence, why they don\u2019t show any of the above-mentioned trust indicators for self-signed certificates.<\/span><\/p>\n But it gets worse. <\/i><\/b>Not only will browsers not trust a self-signed certificate, but they\u2019ll even display a security warning page with error messages like the one shown below, this means that your website visitors must manually click on the \u201c<\/span>Accept Risk<\/span><\/i>\u201d button to open your site \u2014 and that can drive them away.<\/span><\/p>\n The difference between a self-signed and a CA certificate is the issuer of the certificate.<\/i><\/b> A self-signed certificate is created, signed, and issued by the subject of the certificate (the entity it is issued to), while a CA certificate is created, signed, and issued by a third party called a certificate authority (CA) that is authorized to validate the identity of the applicant. <\/span><\/p>\n In this next section, we will schematize the pros and cons outlining in a clearer way the real differences between the self-signed and CA certificates.<\/span><\/p>\n Couple these self-signed certificate vulnerabilities with the operational challenges<\/i> most organizations face with expiring and misconfigured certificates, and you can see how attackers can easily exploit this vulnerability.<\/p>\n Our tech team has prepared a step-by-step tutorial with hands-on examples for securing your site with self-signed or CA certificates on Ubuntu<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n If you feel that this topic is too technical, or beyond your expertise, you can choose a very convenient and practical solution, ready-made, fully tested, and developed by SSD Nodes (That is us \ud83d\ude0a) to create a website with an active SSL self-signed certificate.<\/span><\/p>\n Just visit<\/span> our website<\/span><\/a>, choose the server\u2019s specifications that fit your needs, along with any of the 1-Click Applications we offer (<\/span>WordPress, Zabbix, phpMyAdmin, Webmin, Nextcloud, LAMP, LEMP, Grafana, MongoDB<\/em>\u00a0to name a few), complete your checkout, and in a couple of minutes, our algorithms will make it ready to use <\/span>with an active SSL self-signed certificate!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ~ Never take any risks when it comes to your server\u2019s security! While your business will surely offer more and more online services and transactions, internet security becomes both a priority and a necessity for your customers\u2019 online transactions, to ensure that sensitive information \u2013 such as a credit card number and personal information \u2013 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[202,201],"class_list":["post-6574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devops","tag-ca-ssl","tag-self-signed-ssl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssdnodes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssdnodes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssdnodes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssdnodes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssdnodes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6574"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssdnodes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13508,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssdnodes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6574\/revisions\/13508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssdnodes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssdnodes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssdnodes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssdnodes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What Effect Do SSL certificates Have on Your Business?<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Technicalities anyone?<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nSelf-Signed Certificate vs CA Certificate: What\u2019s the Difference?<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nPros and Cons anyone?<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nAdvantages of Self-Signed SSL Certificates<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Disadvantages of Self-Signed SSL Certificates<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Advantages of CA Certificates<\/span><\/h3>\n
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\n<\/span>\u00a0- SSL\/TLS certificates to secure web browsing experiences and communications.
\n<\/span>\u00a0- Digital signatures on software.
\n<\/span>\u00a0- Restricted access to enterprise intranets and VPNs.
\n<\/span>\u00a0- Password-free Wifi access based on device ownership.
\n<\/span>\u00a0- Email and data encryption.<\/span><\/li>\n
\n<\/i><\/b>\u00a0- Paid subscriptions or memberships.
\n<\/span>\u00a0- Tax information, health records of users, or any other personally identifiable information (PII).
\n<\/span>\u00a0- Donations, charity, or fundraising.
\n<\/span>\u00a0- eCommerce facilities.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nDisadvantages of CA certificates<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Bottom Line?<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/a>How to set up your Self-Signed or CA certificate<\/span><\/h2>\n
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