What is HTTPS?

you ask? It refers to HTTP requests transmitted over a secure encrypted channel. In simpler terms, visiting an HTTPS site rather than a regular old HTTP site protects you against an array of malicious activities, including site forgery and content alteration.

How Exactly Does HTTPS Work, and Why Is It Important?

When visiting a correctly configured and maintained HTTPS site, you can expect three things: authenticity, integrity, and encryption.

The authenticity protection means that the site that loads is confirmed to be the site you intended to visit. When you go to the new and improved HTTPS version of a site, your browser will verify the site to ensure you’re seeing your site and not a forgery. (This might sound wild, but hackers can fairly easily replace real HTTP websites or pages with fake ones.

The integrity protection means that the data transferred between our servers and your browser has not been altered. Now that we’re switching to HTTPS, if someone tries to tamper with your site content before your browser receives it, your browser will issue a warning. You can rest assured that what you're reading is exactly what our writers wrote.

The encryption protection means no one can spy on content as it travels from our server to your browser. If someone is trying to surveil that content, it will be unintelligible to them unless they manage to decrypt it—which is really difficult to do.

Well What Took So Long?

As a leader in web services for more than 10 years, Ositcom ltd’s switch to HTTPS might sound long overdue. But implementing this vital security layer remains a big challenge for all our customers sites.

When delivering a website over HTTPS, every single assetloaded from the site must be delivered via HTTPS. For instance, if we embed an asset like a Hulu video that uses HTTP, the overall security of the browsing session is downgraded because the Hulu assets are served insecurely. Even if most of a site’s assets use HTTPS, browsers may block individual assets, such as images or Javascript files, served over HTTP because they compromise security.

We’ll keep you updated as the process unfolds, so stay tuned as we transform all sites hosted at our servers  into the HTTPS-secured sites we’ve always wanted them to be.