From the course: Security Tips: Protecting Sensitive Information
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Ensuring security of web connections
From the course: Security Tips: Protecting Sensitive Information
Ensuring security of web connections
- [Instructor] Most of the time when we browse the web, the data sent between our computer and the web servers we're visiting is protected for us automatically in the background. Protection of web traffic is important, because so much personal information is transferred through web browsers. Activities including online banking, web mail, ordering products, using social media, and all kinds of other functions that we perform every day. Without protection, the information sent during these activities could be observed by anyone at any point along the connection between your device and the server. So, there's protection built into all modern browsers. This protection is called TLS or transport layer security, and HTTPS or hypertext transfer protocol secure. And it uses encryption to protect information that we send to a web service or that we receive from the web service. This encryption is controlled by certificates, which…
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