Stephen A. Thomas is chief architect for Wave7 Optics. He has been actively involved in TCP/IP standards development for nearly two decades, and has co-authored and contributed to numerous Internet ...

Secure Sockets Layer has become the de facto standard for secure communications between end users and Internet sites, and today, SSL support is built into virtually every browser. SSL is a protocol ...

Certificate-based authentication is a cryptographic technique that allows one computer to securely identify itself to another across a network connection, using a document called a public-key ...

Using certificates to authenticate your business website is a must when dealing with Secure Sockets Layer or Transport Layer Security traffic. The Server Name Indication extension to the TLS protocol ...

SSL VPN appliances continue are gaining momentum in the minds of IT administrators, as evidenced by the growing number of vendors catering to the market. Secure Sockets Layer encryption, the same ...

IT professionals are expected to know everything technical, which creates a very high bar, and mistakes can be costly. Increasingly, corporate IT is asked to be more involved with website security ...