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HTTPS provides critical security and data integrity both for your websites and for the people that entrust your websites with their personal information. The encryption within HTTPS means that only your browser and the server can decrypt the traffic. This is why you should always protect your websites with HTTPS, even if they don’t handle sensitive communications.
HTTPS protects the integrity of your website
HTTPS helps prevent intruders from tampering with the communications between your website and your users’ browsers. Intruders include intentionally malicious attackers, and legitimate but intrusive companies that inject advertisements into pages.
Intruders exploit every unprotected resource, such as images, cookies, scripts etc. that travels between your website and your users. Intrusions can occur at any point in the network, including a user’s machine, Wi-Fi hotspot etc.
HTTPS protects the privacy and security of your users
HTTPS prevents intruders from being able to passively listen in on the communications between your websites and your users. Every unprotected HTTP request can potentially reveal information about the behaviours and identities of your users as intruders can, by looking at their browsing activities, make inferences about their behaviours and intentions.
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It will be necessary to configure iShare for HTTPS if services and maps are to be used in conjunction with a website which itself runs under HTTPS. iShare can be run under HTTP and HTTPS simultaneously so it can be implemented in stages.
- It is normally fairly simple to configure a recently installed or new iShare site, but the process can be a little more involved for longer standing sites as any customisation may need to be considered such as use of our iShare Web Services. Please contact Astun Technology via the support portalSupport Portal if you require any assistance with this process.
- iShare sites that use Workspaces/ dual-languages (e.g. English and Welsh) will need individual IIS SSL certificates for each site.
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IIS Redirect - Customers should consider setting up an IIS redirect as per http://stackoverflow.com/questions/46347/iis7-http-https-cleanly to ensure customers with bookmarks to their HTTP URL are redirected to their HTTPS URL.
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