SSL Certificate
(Secure Sockets Layer)
It’s a digital certificate that provides authentication to a website and enables encrypted information that is sent to your server. Once this file has been installed in the server, the security certificate activates HTTPS protocol and this way, a secured connection is enabled from the server to the browser.
“An SSL certificate is equivalent to a web passport”
Which establishes online projects credentials when executing certain actions on the web. When a user tries to send information to a website server, the browser in used accesses the security certificate and creates a secure connection.