HTTPS and Thawte SSL

How does BE keep your communications secure?

When using BE, all of the pages will swap you from a standard communication method (HTTP) to its secure equivalent (HTTPS). So in an indentical way to your online banking, every communication is completely secure and encrypted all the way from your machine, straight though to storage of the data in the back end of the system.

BE will swap you back immediately to HTTPS even if you try to manually circumvent the security.

In order to ensure the encryption is done properly a third party supplier verifies that the encryption is being done properly. Thawte is the company that provides this independant verification.

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Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

HTTPS encrypts and decrypts user page requests as well as the pages that are returned by the Web server. The use of HTTPS protects against eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks.

Thawte SSL Certificates

Thawte® SSL Web Server Certificates secure confidential information exchanged online and confirm your site’s identity to employees, business partners, and other users. When users click the Thawte® Trusted Site Seal or view certificate details, your organisation's name appears and shows that Thawte, a trusted certificate authority, has verified the site’s identity. SSL Web Server Certificates can include full organisation authentication details.