When it comes to websites on the internet, security is of utmost importance and with Google announcing HTTPS as a ranking signal moving your website from HTTP to HTTPS has become crucial. This post covers the basic difference between HTTP and HTTPS, the reasons to migrate and the steps to follow. HTTP vs HTTPS HTTP stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol, it is used for communication purpose on the world wide web (www). HTTPS, on the…
In October 2016 at the CA/Browser Forum in Redmond, Washington, Google software engineer Ryan Sleevi announced Google’s move to make Certificate Transparency mandatory for Chrome web browsing. What’s the big deal about HTTPS and Digital Certificates? The Certificate Transparency is an open source framework by Google that monitors and audits domain certificates. How? If you’ve recently surfed the Internet on your Chrome browser, you’ve probably noticed an indicator next to a domain name. An indicator…