Google Chrome 68 is here and as promised, the Chrome Browser is now marking HTTP as “Not secure” . We first blogged about this in March of 2018 and the time is now to make sure that all web sites are published using always-on HTTPS. This development matters greatly to ...
It stands to reason that consumers would be more inclined to engage in transactions and share confidential information on a site where the green address bar is available. The green address bar is a visible indicator of the identity of the organization that operates a site
Apple has announced that it is deprecating trust for Symantec roots starting in summer of 2018 . Apart from its timing, this program is very similar to that taken by the Chrome and Firefox browsers. In the summer (exact date not specified) Apple will distrust TLS/SSL certificates on all public ...
Since Chrome announced in 2017 that is was deprecating trust for Symantec's certificate brands, including GeoTrust , Thawte , and RapidSSL , we have continued to receive inquiries about whether or not GeoTrust is a trusted, credible certificate for use on production websites. Fortunately, these brands' new parent company DigiCert ...
Many people associate GeoCerts very strongly with GeoTrust SSL certificates. That is not simply because of the similarity of the two names. In this post we'll briefly overview the relationship between GeoCerts and GeoTrust and clarify how the two entities fit together. GeoTrust was founded as an independent Certification Authority ...
Firefox is set to follow a similar deprecation schedule for GeoTrust and other Symantec certificates. Read on to learn more.
In 2015 the PCI Security Standards Council set a June 30, 2018 deadline for entities accepting credit card payments to deprecate support for all versions of SSL/TLS prior to TLS 1.1 . The reasons for this requirement are a variety of security vulnerabilities (including certain flavors of man-in-the-middle and downgrade ...
GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is a broad-reaching regulation meant to protect the private data of Europeans in personal systems. The 99-article regulation is very long and covers a broad variety of topics. Announced in 2017, GDPR will go into effect as a requirement on May 25, 2018. GDPR applies ...
TLS (Transport Layer Security) is the official name of the standard used by computer systems that is commonly referred to as SSL. Though once upon a time the SSL (Secured Sockets Layer) standard governed secure online connections, SSL was surpassed by the TLS standard in 1999. Out of convenience and ...
If you're reading this blog post it means you have seen our newly updated GeoCerts.com site. It's our biggest site overhaul in more than a decade, and we designed the site in direct response to feedback from our excellent community of customers, resellers, and site visitors. Some of the main ...