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AV7000 LINEAR CAMERA
UNDERSTANDING HTTPS SECURITY FOR AV FAMILY
PRODUCTS
HTTPS Overview (Server Side Certificates)
HTTPS (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure) appears in a URL when a website is secured
by an SSL certificate. The details of the certificate, including the issuing authority and
the corporate name of the website owner, can be viewed by clicking on the lock symbol
on the browser bar.
SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer and, in short, it's the standard technology for
keeping an Internet connection secure and safeguarding any sensitive data that is being
sent between two systems, preventing criminals from reading and modifying any infor-
mation transferred, including potential personal details. The two systems can be a
ser
ver and a client (for example, a shopping website and browser) or server to server
(for example, an application with personal identifiable information or with payroll infor-
mation).
SSL does this by making sure that any data transferred between users and sites, or
be
tween two systems remain impossible to read. It uses encryption algorithms to
scramble data in transit, preventing hackers from reading it as it is sent over the connec-
tion. This information could be anything sensitive or personal which can include credit
c
ard numbers and other financial information, names and addresses.
TLS (Transport Layer Security) is just an updated, more secure, version of SSL. We still
refer to our security certificates as SSL because it is a more commonly used term.
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