There are many scenarios when it is required that we test our website(s) for the security. The top most item which comes in mind is SSL. Every Web administrator would like to secure his/her website using SSL certificates so that the end users can trust the website and can transact safely. But how does it work exactly? When a browser...
Refer this blog to get a basic understanding of using self-signed SSL certificates on your Apache server. Also, the above link will help you in generating a private key and a CSR (Certificate Signing Request), which contains information about your country, locality, company, your public key, etc.; for your server. For commercial...
Application Security, Technology
Hackers and cyber criminals identify E-commerce sites as a source of information, such as credit cards and other PII (Personally identifiable information). To protect customers, it's necessary to know how to protect the application and the sensitive customer data it has. All this involves user's trust and assurance on the brand and...
We were trying to implement SSL-based login and registration (i.e. HTTPS) in an e-commerce web application which was otherwise using the non-secure protocol (i.e. HTTP) for the entire website. Instead of moving the entire web application to SSL, which would have increased response times, we thought it would be best if only the...
To run your Grails application on SSL, firstly you need to configure the Tomcat server. Here in this example, I will show how to configure Tomcat instance and run Grails/Java application. For SSL/HTTPS: We need .keystore file. You can generate it by using command“keytool -genkey”. Run this command on linux terminal or window...
In one of my project, I have to set-up SSL certificates for my website to make it secure, so that it could also be access via https protocol. SSL is a way to secure internet communication from your browser to a secure website. The websites using SSL will have https:// to their name. Following are the steps to set-up SSL certificate on...
In one of my project, My front end application runs on one server and back end application runs on another. Both application have to communicate with each other through SSL(Secure Sockets Layer). SSL is a way to secure internet communication from your browser to a secure website. The websites using SSL will have https:// to their name. ...