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Joomla! Web Security

You're reading from   Joomla! Web Security Secure your Joomla! website from common security threats with this easy-to-use guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2008
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ISBN-13 9781847194886
Length 264 pages
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Chapter 9. SSL for Your Joomla! Site

Your Joomla! site is up and running, your widgets are stocked, and your advertising is ready. You also have your business cards printed and your processes worked out, so what's left?

Customers, of course! They will want to come to your www.widgetworldwebsite.com and purchase your goods or services. The Internet offers you a global customer base with disposable income that can be converted to goods and services. Yet, those same customers are at risk every time they pull out a credit card and put it on a website to purchase something.

Many consumers are likely to be very wary of you, simply because of the "horror" stories of identity theft, of credit card theft, and more.

What can be done to help them have a better feeling about your site? What in reality needs to be done anytime you are handling purchases or personal data is to add SSL (also known as TLS) to your site.

In this chapter we're going to learn where Secure Socket Layer or SSL came from and how...

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