{"id":7976,"date":"2024-04-04T16:19:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T14:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tremhost.com\/blog\/?p=7976"},"modified":"2024-04-04T16:19:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T14:19:20","slug":"top-10-reasons-you-need-ssl-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tremhost.com\/blog\/top-10-reasons-you-need-ssl-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Reasons You Need SSL Certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meet the New Industry Requirements<\/strong>\u2014Browsers now display \u201cNot Secure\u201d warnings on all unencrypted connections.
\nThe CA Security Council reports only 2% would proceed past untrusted connection warnings and only 3% would give
\ncredit card information without the padlock icon. According to an Ipsos Group 2018 study, 87% of users won\u2019t
\ncomplete transaction if they see a browser warning. 58% will go to a competitor to complete their purchase.<\/p>\n

Gain Visitor Trust & Confidence<\/strong>\u2014Online, your brand reputation is everything. SSL shows visitors their safety is your priority and
\nprovides visual trust indicators that create instant trust.<\/p>\n

Maximize Conversions<\/strong>\u2014With abandonment rates as high as 75%, you need to do everything you can to gain visitor confidence.
\nHubSpot reports 84% of people won\u2019t make a purchase on an unsecured website.<\/p>\n

Boost Search Ranking & Traffic<\/strong>\u2014Top visibility on search engine results pages is the first step to gaining new visitors.
\nAs of August 2014, Google gives sites with SSL certificates as much as a 5% boost in ranking.<\/p>\n

Unlock Popular Mobile Features<\/strong>\u2014Salesforce reports 71% of companies believe mobile is core to their business.<\/p>\n

Mobile\u2019s most popular features<\/strong>\u2014geolocation, motion orientation, microphone, full screen and camera access\u2014
\nrequire HTTPS to be enabled by most browsers.<\/p>\n

Speed Up Site Performance<\/strong>\u2014HTTP is being replaced by a newer, faster version, HTTP\/2. Encrypted connections
\nare required to unlock the latest speed and security features.<\/p>\n

Satisfy GDPR Compliance<\/strong>\u2014GDPR went into effect May 25, 2018, and breach penalties are steep at \u20ac20 million or 4%
\nof annual turnover, which is higher. Plus, there may be additional fines based on type of breach, data exposed, response, etc. And that
\ndoesn\u2019t include damage to reputation or legal fees. Some of the requirements in this 99-article regulation can only be accomplished
\nwith SSL certificates.<\/p>\n

Satisfy PCI Compliance<\/strong>\u2014SSL certificates play an important role in meeting PCI requirements. Here are just a few
\nSSL-related issues that can cause you to fail a PCI compliance scan if they\u2019re not resolved:
\n\u2022 Using expired SSL certificates
\n\u2022 Using non-publicly trusted SSL certificates in the wrong areas
\n\u2022 Using lower than 256-bit encryption
\n\u2022 Using outdated TLS protocol<\/p>\n

Protect Against Phishing Attacks<\/strong>\u2014According to PhishLabs Q3 2018 report, nearly half (49%) of phishing sites appear safe to visitors
\nbecause they use Domain Validation (DV) certificates. PhishLabs reports sites protected by premium certificates (Organization
\nValidation\/OV and Extended Validation\/EV) are 93 \u2013 97% safer than encryption-only DV sites.<\/p>\n

Minimize Data Breaches<\/strong>\u2014According to the 2018 Global Threat Report, 70% of company\u2019s report suffering at least one data breach.
\nThe first half of 2018 saw 4.5B records stolen (291 every second) and only 1% were encrypted. Verizon\u2019s Data Breach Investigation
\nReport cites lack of encryption and security when handling confidential information among the top causes of breaches. If you suffered
\na breach, wouldn\u2019t you at least want to make sure the data couldn\u2019t be decrypted? Not having an SSL certificate increases your risk of
\na data breach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meet the New Industry Requirements\u2014Browsers now display \u201cNot Secure\u201d warnings on all unencrypted connections. The CA Security Council reports only 2% would proceed past untrusted connection warnings and only 3% would give credit card information without the padlock icon. According to an Ipsos Group 2018 study, 87% of users won\u2019t complete transaction if they see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ssl"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tremhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tremhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tremhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tremhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tremhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tremhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7980,"href":"https:\/\/tremhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7976\/revisions\/7980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tremhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tremhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tremhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tremhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}