How To Tell If A Website Is Secure

How can I tell if a website is secure?

There are a number of ways that you can tell whether a site that you're working with is secure or not. One of the most common ways is a little icon on the bottom of your browser that's a padlock. When that padlock is open, you're not in a secure site. When the padlock is closed, you're now in a secure site where any data being transmitted is encrypted. Encryption is simply a matter of decoding information on one end and encoding it on another end. A couple of other ways are something called an SSL, which is a Secure Socket Layer. It's a special port or a special connection used only for the transmission of secure data, so it's not mixed with any of the other data that might be transmitted in the site, such as descriptions, or product information, or anything like that. Finally, there's another protocol; and you'll see in the web address instead of http:// you might see https://. That's a secure hypertext protocol.