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- SSL Encryption – A Protocol That Authenticate Cloud Computing - February 5, 2013
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To empower cloud computing, SSL is must. Cloud Computing and SSL are two sides of a coin. SSL is a primary security that used by many organizations to secure their confidential information travelling between the server and client.
Cloud Computing is built on using of computing resources, which contains different services like servers, applications and storage to organizations through internet. Cloud Computing serves three different fragments like “Application,” “Storage” and “Connectivity.” Each part is serving a different purpose to the organization.
When you wish to take Cloud Service, always prefer such service provider who has a strong security. If you ignore security part, your network will become a target of outsider attacks.To gain the benefits from cloud computing without compromising the performance of your network, enterprises must confirm that they work only with trustworthy service providers. Here, you can implement a technology called SSL (Secure Socket Layer), which can secure your Cloud Computing Service.However, before focusing on the SSL benefits let us observe its necessity and functioning pattern.
Why SSL?
SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is a technology that works on encryption. It converts your information or data into a coding language; therefore, attacker cannot recognize it. SSL protects the information that travels between a web browser and cloud server. It establishes trust over the internet. The protection level used by SSL security is up to 256-bit encryption, which protects you from on-line attacks. SSL also verifies the server and domain of your organization.
SSL protects your cloud service against the most of security issues. Below are some examples against which SSL secures your Cloud Computing Service:
- Injection attack
- Flooding attack
- Network sniffing
- Man in the middle attack
- Data theft
- Port Scanning
From the above discussion, you have enough knowledge about the SSL terminology and security issues of Cloud Computing.Now let us focus on How SSL works.
How SSL Works?
As we discussed that SSL works on encryption, which also contains a public key and private key to identify the exact server for transactions. The keys work like as below:
- The browser requests to the web server about identity verification
- The server sends SSL Certificate copy to browser
- The browser checks SSL copy for authentication and sends a message to the server after verify it.
- The server sends a digital signature acknowledgement and permits to start encrypted session.
- Finally, Encrypted data is ready to share between the browser and the server.
Now let’s disclose the segments on which SSL technology is laid. SSL works on three fundamental segments that make SSL the most appreciated security. The segments are discussed below.
- Encryption:
The main quality of SSL is to provide the standard level of encryption that secures the data between server and server or browser and server. Such type of encryption prevents outsider’s interruption. Your data transition remains secure with SSL encryption.
- Authentication:
It is essential to verify the server before transferring any data. Never go for a self-signed certificate, as there are not legitimate. SSL provides authenticate environment for your Cloud Service.SSL Certificate must be issued from the trusted Certificate Authority.
- Validity:
Once a certificate is authenticated, the SSL Certificate is issued for a fixed length of time.SSL checks the validity itself when servers try to connect each other. It is necessary to check about the validity of SSL Certificate; otherwise, it will not capable of securing your Cloud Service. There are two standards like On-line Certificates Status Protocol and Certificate Revocation List.
- In OCSP, a request is made to Certificate Authority about Certificate’s validity and the certificate authority answers about the SSL Certificate.
- While in CRL the browser, download the most cancellation list from the Certificate Authority and checks validity of a certificate itself. OCSP is the most reliable method used to check the validity of a certificate.
How SSL Helps?
After disclosing the method and importance of SSL Now come to the final discussion where SSL can help Cloud Computing Service.
- Data Reside: Data Reside is the chief issue in Cloud Computing. In Traditional on-site storage, information about the data placed on the cloud and the Cloud access is vulnerable. Therefore, the third person can read your data without any interruption. SSL encrypts the data at the time of transfer between server to server or browser to server. Therefore, the attacker cannot access the data. In addition, SSL verifies the identity of both servers that decrease the chance of data reading by outsiders.
- Compliance: When organization places data on Cloud, it is essential to aware about the regulatory compliances and its maintenance. SSL maintains the regulatory compliance by hiding the private and protected data towards any third person.Organizations should check about the policy of data management and compliance.
- Data Transfer: SSL removes fear from the organization about data theft during any data transfer. SSL protects the data that travel between servers. Therefore, no one can read or modify the data, and the data will remain secure in the Cloud.
- Data Backups: SSL Certificate adds an extra layer of security to data backup in case of any data lost or data crash. SSL assures organizations that the data accessed from a server is legitimate and encrypted. The data travels between backup servers or duplicate server is also encrypted.
Conclusion:
If SSL and cloud work together, cloud computing can perform better in secure environment. Organizations now understood that without a strong security Cloud Computing could not survive as an invulnerable service. For a successful Cloud Computing, you should have a strong encryption that keeps attacker away from your data.
Thanks, never came across this area. Sounds very interesting. Thanks for sharing, Abel!
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Hi Abel,
Your post on SSL encryption is a full blown course on the subject and fully deserving of study. Thanks for dividing your scholarship material into teachable chapters.
You wrote a brilliant article!
Fred
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Amazing knowledge given on this post.. its kinda very effective .. and seriously i got my concept of SSL clear to good line. Thanx for giving us the wide knowledge About SSL Encryption and how to hide the datas for privacy. God Bless You. God Bless ALL.
Hello Abel,
This post is awesome. you really did define topic incredibly and i appreciate that. thanks
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I really appreciate the way you are pointed out important aspect of cloud computing and importance of SSL certificate encryption.
Looking forward to advance article in this category.
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I knew that SSL is very crucial for the security and privacy of your data online, though I wasn’t sure how exactly it works. Really informative article.
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Thank you all for commenting on this article. I would like to know your more opinion on this post.
SSL is very crucial for the security and privacy
Protection for your business is what’s most important, I had an incident that I expirenced a lot of bandwidth are used over a few days and then realized that some one or some bot is scraping my content and also trying to bombard my site with tons of spam comments. Thanks for sharing this Able, this post is going to be very useful!
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It is always important to have strong encryption for your website, even you are only running blog site. Hackers never miss their chance to hack any website and install malware by identify weakness on web servers and get fast access to websites. They can steal yours and your client’s confidential data like credit card details or other private data.
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i dont know much about this but yes i heard that SSL protects the information and its really great as securing the details and data is one of the most important tasks today otherwise it might be stolen or hacked which can create problems. thanks for the article
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wow this will really save us from hackers ! the SSL protocol thst authenticate cloud computation was a post i was finding !
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Very true info. I get tons of spam/fake registrations per day, and I can only imagine how many people try and get into the back end of my site. If I actually processed credit cards through my site I would make it secure, bur I use a merchant, so its on them..
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Really great article , really explained the Cloud computing phenomena greatly , and great service you have got too
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this author is awsum ! i suppose he must be having a good knowledgeof all this stuff !
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Online shopping portal or e-commerce site contains payment transaction page so it is necessary to install SSL on their site. SSL keep secure your data as well as increase trust among users.
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This is something I know very little about. My kids and nephew are always talking about the “Cloud” but I don’t know anything about it. Thanks for sharing.
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I see comluv has no SSL protection. Btw its not expensive either. People should go for it!
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A tip for anyone getting an SSL certificate. While they can be quickly and easily renewed at the end of the year, just make sure to check with whoever you bought it from that it has not just been paid for, but it is activated for the coming year.
I thought I’ve renewed mine in good time only to find that it needed to be activated and my hosting company needed to provide a CSR record.
I didn’t realise this until the SSL had expired. Don’t make this mistake!
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There is nothing to lose in SSL Certificate renewals in advance. But you can get extra benefits of advance renewals of SSL Certificate from ClickSSL. Suppose your certificate is going to be expired in 19 days and if you renew it today than you’ll get additional 2 months validity.
Your remaining days will be added on earlier renewals of SSL Certificate. You can renew your SSL Certificate up-to 90 days before and you will get up-to 3 months additional validity.
You will get following benefit on earlier renewals:
– Renew plus or minus 15 days before Expiration and you will get 1 Additional Renewal Month
– Renew 16 to 45 days before Expiration and you will get 2 Additional Renewal Months
– Renew 46 to 90 days before Expiration and you will get 3 Additional Renewal Month
Note: These offers only applicable on renewals from ClickSSL
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Thanks Abel. We have SSl encryption on our site but I never knew how it worked, only that it was important. I feel like I’ve learnt something new today!
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Hello Michelle,
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Hey Abel,
Nice post and Thanks for sharing this important information with us. Yes, security is become an important issue these days as hacking is become common thing. I really like SSL and it really seems interesting and this really keep us away from outside attacks.
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