In the world of Internet security, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and its successor Transport Layer Security are the workhorse protocols for protecting confidential communications over the Web. As of 2010, SSL had stood the test of time (15 years) and secured almost all of the world’s e-commerce. In 2011, however, SSL was hacked to the bone, on multiple occasions, calling into serious question whether companies can still rely on SSL to communicate securely across the Web.
This impacts the enterprise in two different ways: first, in its capacity as an end-user (or group of end-users); and second, in its capacity as owner and operator of a website which offers an SSL portal to customers.
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