Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificates help protect the data transmitted between the user’s browser and the website’s server. They encrypt the data in transit, making it much harder for attackers to intercept and read it. When a website has an active SSL-certificate it is possible to visit the site with https. A SSL certificate for a website is today highly advisable mainly from the visitor’s experience, as the visitors of the site otherwise will be faced with the question of whether they wish to continue even though the site might be harmful.
We want to make the web safer and SSL-certificates is a part of our security work. Cradle CMS supports automatic https certificates from Let’s Encrypt and other ACME compliant providers.
Communication security is a crucial aspect of online communication. SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and TLS (Transport Layer Security) are protocols that ensure secure communication by encrypting and authenticating data on the internet. To transfer hypermedia documents, meaning webpages, Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is used, and to make it secure, this is combined with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates and is then called HTTPS, which is what we see in the browser when visiting sites on the internet.
Cradle software creates SSL certificates automatically and compiles the code with a cryptographic method using FIPS 140-2 certified crypto library. Our security level, in turn, gives an overall rating of A+ (Qualys SSL labs tests). This means the projects running on a Cradle CMS installation also get this rating.