Saying Goodbye to SSL
Does your website still use SSL or an early TLS protocol? Are you an ecommerce or member only site or yet to start the migration away from SSL to a more secure encryption protocol? Read on for key questions and answers that can help with saying goodbye to SSL and TLSv1.1 and reducing the risk of being breached. What happens on 30 June 2018? The 30th June 2018 is the deadline for disabling SSL/early TLS and implementing a more secure encryption protocol – TLS 1.1 or higher (TLS v1.2 is strongly encouraged) in order to meet the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) for safeguarding payment data. What is SSL/early TLS? Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a cryptographic protocol used to establish a secure communications channel between two systems. It is used to authenticate one or both systems, and protect the confidentiality and integrity of information that passes between systems. It was originally developed as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) by Netscape in the early 1990s. Standar