Over the past decade or so, software as a service has become a ubiquitous licensing and delivery model that has innumerable practical boons both for the end-user and for the developer. Much as is the case with virtually any other licensing model, however, there are faults to it, and some of them are endemic to the fact that SaaS providers need to rely on some sort of a centralised hosting system… [read more →]
For more than 20 years, OpenSSL has been the most widely used SSL/TLS library in use by software applications for cryptographic purposes. OpenSSL itself was a fork of the SSLeay project, now defunct. OpenSSL is free and open source, which is a huge boon for a library serving as the backbone of a secure internet. While OpenSSL is by far the most prolific way of handling cryptography from within… [read more →]
Cybersecurity has become an important part of every organization’s data security strategy; and since its application has only increased, the demand for trained and experienced cybersecurity professionals has also grown rapidly. Even though there are many job opportunities available in this ever evolving field, there are many who are skeptical about whether cybersecurity is the right career c… [read more →]
Domain certification is one of the chief concerns of a contemporary webmaster, but the SSL certificates we use on a daily basis don't appear out of thin air. Every modern SSL certificate is made by a trusted certificate authority (or certification authority) - a company that specialises in PKI and the production of digital certificates. With this article, we aim to explain what is a… [read more →]
SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer, and it is the underlying technology used to protect a web server from potentially malicious actors and actions - through the use of cryptography. With this article, we'll attempt to dispel some false notions about SSL certificates, and explain in the simplest terms possible what SSL is, how it relates to TLS or Transport Layer Security, and what … [read more →]
