Add to Favorites There are literally thousands of IT abbreviations out there. Many are concerned with the technical aspects of the computer, while others deal with cybersecurity. Following are some more common ones that you may have heard but do not know exactly what they mean.
Category: 1. Announcements
Why Should the Education Sector Make CyberSecurity a Priority?
Add to Favorites The coronavirus outbreak has struck havoc in a variety of industries, particularly in education. Teachers are forced to rely on online teaching methods such as email, video conferencing, and collaboration technologies such as Google Meet and Zoom to ensure their students’ learning due to the protracted shutdown of many schools and college […]
How to install an S/MIME Certificate on the outlook
Encrypting emails and attachments with Digital Certificates is a wise move that any organization can practice. A digitally encrypted message can only be opened by recipients who have the correct key. A digital signature ensures that the recipient’s message has not tampered.
Multi-year SSL/TLS Certificate Plan
Add to Favorites Help organizations by reducing certificate outages with a Multi-year SSL/TLS plan that simplifies certificate purchasing and renewal processes. Acmetek, a platinum partner of DigiCert, introduced a new Multi-year Plan to simplify TLS /SSL certificate management ahead of one-year lifetime requirements. How does it work? When a customer purchases a Multi-year Plan TLS/SSL […]
Web Browsers Now Marking HTTP sites “Not Secure”
Add to Favorites Web Browsers have now started marking HTTP sites as ‘Not Secure’ with release of Chrome 68+. For the past several years, Google strongly advising webmasters (sites) to adopting HTTPS encryption. Google said that within the last year, they helped users understand that HTTP sites are not secure by gradually marking a larger […]
How to Protect Your Websites – Featuring SiteLock
Add to Favorites Website security in our modern times is of the utmost importance, and it cannot be an afterthought. What are you doing to protect your company? Do you have a team of IT security professionals making sure your websites and internal network systems are secure? The only true way of staying secure is […]
CA|B Fourm Passes Ballot 218 – Removing validation methods 1 and 5
Add to Favorites As of August 1, 2018, all Certification Authorities (CA) can no longer validate domains by matching WHOIS domain registrant search results with certificate requester. Purpose of Ballot: Section 3.2.2.4 says that it “defines the permitted processes and procedures for validating the Applicant’s ownership or control of the domain.” Most of the validation methods actually […]
GDPR Is Here! Are You Ready?
Add to Favorites What is GDPR? At its core, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new set of rules designed to give EU citizens more control over their personal data. The reforms are designed to reflect the world we’re living in now, and brings laws and obligations – including those around personal data, […]
Encryption Protocol TLS 1.3 Released.
Add to Favorites The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) —the organization that approves proposed Internet standards and protocols has approved TLS 1.3 as the next version of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. TLS allows client/server applications to communicate over the Internet in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery. […]
Google Makes Certificate Transparency Mandatory On Chrome.
Add to Favorites Last year Google once again flexed its muscles by announcing the requirement for Certificate Transparency for all new SSL/TLS certificates in October 2017. This has since been pushed back until April 2018. This requirement means that Chrome will no longer trust new SSL/TLS certificates that are not qualified for Certificate Transparency (CT). CT is […]