On-line Security and Identity Theft
Online security and identity theft protection is a task one should not take lightly. In fact, a domain owner should make every effort to lock down their site(s) from malacious scripts and/or users. It is your responsibility that your site(s) visitors are in a safe environment and their personal information is sent (in either direction) encrypted.
ID-Protection Service
Did you know that current ICANN regulations require that your Private contact information (WhoIs Info) be included in a publicly accessible Database?
This means that your private information is displayed and made available to anyone who wants to see it, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Now you can protect your private WhoIs information by switching your "public" domain registration to a "private" unlisted registration through WebExpressPortal's ID-Protect service.
Our ID-Protect product for our domain registration users can completely hide your identity from address harvesting, spammers or, in a worse case scenerio from malicious code entering your pc via email.
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) Certificate
The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol has become the universal standard on the Web for authenticating sites and for encrypting communications between users and Web servers. Because SSL is built into all major browsers and Web servers, simply installing a digital certificate or Server ID enables SSL capabilities.
SSL server authentication allows users to confirm a Web server's identity. SSL-enabled client software, such as a Web browser, can automatically check that a server's certificate and public ID are valid and have been issued by a certificate authority (CA) — such as VeriSign — listed in the client software's list of trusted CAs. SSL server authentication is vital for secure e-commerce transactions.
An encrypted SSL connection requires all information sent between a client and a server to be encrypted by the sending software and decrypted by the receiving software, protecting private information from interception over the Internet. In addition, all data sent over an encrypted SSL connection is protected with a mechanism for detecting tampering — that is, for automatically determining whether the data has been altered in transit. This means that users can confidently send private data, such as credit card numbers, to a website, trusting that SSL keeps it private and confidential.