What is SSL and Why Do I Need It?
SSL is the abbreviation of Secure Sockets Layer, a protocol which helps in ensuring that the data is well encrypted and safe. Privacy of customer data, authentication of ownership, and data integrity are the three key things that SSL aims to achieve in Internet communications. To provide the required privacy of data, the data that is transmitted is in the form of encrypted information which cannot be understood by potential cybercriminals.
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