SSL Certificates make a perfect add on to your domain and make it easy for you to provide SSL protection to your website's visitors. With identity theft on the rise the security of your website is more important than ever.

Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is a protocol that secures data sent across the Internet. A server must have an SSL certificate installed to make a secure connection and safely transfer information. The certificate is an electronic file that uniquely identifies individuals and servers. If your website involves sending any sensitive information such as credit card or account numbers, an SSL certificate will protect your customers and protect you from liability.

Typically, digital certificates are signed by an independent and trusted third party to ensure their validity. The "signer" of a certificate is known as a Certification Authority (CA). Aeneas SSL are GeoTrust SSL Certificates. GeoTrust is a leader in identity verification and trust services, and the second largest certificate authority in the world.

There are two types of SSL certificates:

• Authentication - prove a company's (or server's) identity online to create a sense of trust and confidence.
• Encryption - offer protection for the data submitted to a website (or between servers) so that in the event of interception, it will be unintelligible without the unique key used for decryption.

Solving these security problems protects your website users from spoofing, unauthorized disclosure and data alteration.

The most common purpose of SSL Certificates is to secure the transmission of financial information in ecommerce. But with identity theft on the rise and more and more businesses opening up their networks via the Internet, protecting all types of personally identifiable information (social security numbers, login information) and key business information is important. SSL Certificates should be used to secure the following:

• Web servers
• Mail servers
• Webmail
• Databases
• FTP sites
• Internet chat
• NNTP
• Login pages
• Web portals

Standard SSL Certificates are convenient and economical entry-level SSL Certificates. These certificates enable up to 256-bit encryption and are issued through an automated process that usually results in certificates being issued within minutes of being ordered. This process verifies that a certificate \ purchaser has appropriate administrative rights to a Web server's domain.

• Domain-level authentication
• Up to 256-bit encryption
• GeoTrust Static Site Seal
• Fast issuance, often within minutes

Premium SSL Certificates carry all of the same features and benefits of Standard SSL certificates plus the additional security of the GeoTrust 'Smart Seal': a dynamically updated time and date stamp.

• Domain-level authentication
• Up to 256-bit encryption
• GeoTrust True Site Seal embedded with a date/time stamp
• Compatible with 99%+ of all browsers and most popular mobile devices
• Fast issuance, often within minutes

Platinum SSL Server Certificates from GeoTrust fully authenticate your organization and protect interactions with your website with up to 256-bit encryption levels. These provide organization-level authentication and encryption at a competitive price.

• Full organization validation
• Enables up to 256-bit SSL encryption
• GeoTrust True Site Seal embedded with your company name and a date/time stamp
• Compatible with 99%+ of all browsers and most popular mobile devices

Multiple Doman SSL is a good solution if you need to secure multiple fully-qualified domains that reside on the same physical server and share the same second-level domain name.

For example, if you need to secure the following websites:

• www.yourdomain.com
• secure.yourdomain.com
• product.yourdomain.com
• info.yourdomain.com
• download.yourdomain.com
• anything.yourdomain.com

If all of these websites are hosted on the same server box, you can purchase and install one SSL Certificate issued to *.yourdomain.com to secure them all. The number of sub domains that you can use the Mulitple Domain Certificate to secure is unlimited. Additional licenses are required to span the wildcard certificate across multiple physical servers.

Multiple Domain SSL Certificates enable up to 256-bit encryption and authenticate the identity of your organization.

• Full organization validation
• Enables up to 256-bit SSL encryption
• Secure multiple fully qualified domains that share the same second level domain name on one server
• GeoTrust True Site Seal embedded with your company name and a date/time stamp
• Compatible with 99%+ of all browsers and most popular mobile devices

	Standard SSL	Premium SSL	Platinum SSL	Multiple Domain SSL
Verification of Entity	Domain	Domain	Organization and Domain	Organization and Domain
Documentation required for authentication	Domain authorized email	Domain authorized email	Proof of Organization or DUNS Number and Domain Ownership (or rights to use the domain)	Proof of Organization or DUNS Number and Domain Ownership (or rights to use the domain)
Delivery time	10 minutes	10 minutes	Two business days	Two business days average
Example uses	Light eCommerce websites, intranets, other internal applications	Corporate, eCommerce websites, onther non-eCommerce applications	When corporate identity verification is important, larger eCommerce	Web hosters or corporate networks that want to secure multiple sub-domains against a base domain on a single server
Site Seal	Static GeoTrust brand	Dynamic: time/date	Dynamic: time/date, domain name, organization name	Dynamic: time/date, domain name, organization name
Included in product		Certificate and Smart Seal	Certificate and Smart Seal	Certificate and Smart Seal
Example Seal
Terms	1 - 3 years	1 - 3 years	1 - 3 years	1 - 3 years
Refundable?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Multiple Domains	No	No	No	Yes
Price	$99 - 1 year	$129 - 1 year	$129 - 1 year	$529 - 1 year