Keep your business safe with these top tips.
If you work in the corporate world, you’ll be familiar with cybersecurity rules and regulations. Unfortunately, cyber-attacks are taking place at an astounding rate and have become a key challenge for companies across sectors, sizes and geographies.
According to Cybersecurity Ventures, more than 2,000 cyber-attacks occur around the globe each day (opens in new tab) – that’s an incident every 39 seconds – and these attacks have significant consequences. Estimates suggest that by 2025, global cybercrime will cost $10.5 trillion annually (opens in new tab), not to mention the personal security risks and reputational damage that can occur as a result of a hack.
With stakes this high, there’s no doubt that cybersecurity must be top of every organization’s agenda. Many different solutions and approaches exist, but no matter the tactics, encryption should be central to any cybersecurity strategy. Encryption technology converts sensitive data into code that only the intended recipient can decipher, thus facilitating the safe transfer and access of important information. Let’s take a look at some of the key encryption-based offerings that businesses can utilize to protect against malicious and costly attacks.
SSL Certificates (opens in new tab) play a critical role in securing websites for businesses of all sizes. Installing SSL Server Certificates on a website lets companies enable the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, a standard solution used to ensure online transaction security. TLS guarantees that a user’s session on a website remains fully encrypted and that all the data transferred between the user and the website is kept secure. This is evidenced by a padlock icon displayed in the browser bar. SSL Certificates also provide server authentication, which allows the user to verify the authenticity of a given site.
There are three categories of SSL Certificates: Extended Validation (EV), Organization Validation (OV) and Domain Validation (DV), all of which offer the same level of encryption but with different approaches to vetting and verification.
