Reading Time: 1 minute Comodo Increases its SSL Certificate Market Share Leadership; Eight Consecutive Months (and counting) of Comodo Remaining Number One With the close of the third quarter here, Comodo continues to build on its market share leadership in digital certificates, according to the latest data from w3techs.com, an independent IT market research firm. Since taking the number…

Reading Time: 1 minute Recently, we reviewed a document of best practices in deploying SSL Certificates published by Qualys, a prominent security company.  Their document had some very good advice. In particular, we agree whole heartedly with their recommendation that an SSL user should “obtain certificates from a reliable Certificate Authority”. They went on to list criteria that you…

Reading Time: 2 minutes There are two things I‘ve learned for sure from studying internet security issues: Anyone can be hacked and hackers always have something new up their devious sleeves. The news that Google+ has been breached is a case in point. Yesterday, the blog site searchengine.com reported that URLs for hotels in Google+ local hospitality listings had…

Reading Time: 3 minutes The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) allows you to communicate over the Internet with a secure and encrypted connection. SSL is probably most associated with web sites and email, but it can be used with almost any Internet service.

There are two components to a secure connection:

1) Encryption: This is the process of encoding message between the parties communicating so only they know the content.

2) Assurance: This ensures that the party you think you are communicating with is actually who you think they are.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Wow! On September 30th, Comodo’s (OCSP) responders handled over 2 billion requests in one day! Web users all over the globe can sleep better at night knowing Comodo has their back. OCSP is a protocol enabled in modern browsers that makes real time checks as to whether or not an SSL Certificate has been revoked….

Reading Time: 2 minutes Online retailer, Hayneedle.com, has become an astonishing success with security-conscious shoppers since the brand was introduced in August, 2009. According to Hayneedle’s Chief Technical Officer Steven Dee, the site’s Extended Validation SSL certificate from Comodo has helped it build trust.”People shopping on Hayneedle are looking for something very specific,” said Dee. “They’re used to dealing…