It is the responsibility of website owners to make sure that their customers’ information is secure. Specially when it comes to an e-commerce website. SSL Certificates make sure that the security is in place and help site owners to focus on their business rather than worrying too much about securing the site traffic and customers’ data. Here is the list of some of the best SSL Certificate Providers with their current plans and pricing:
1. Sectigo Comodo – Formerly Known as Comodo CA
Comodo CA, the commercial Certificate Authority giant was re-branded to Sectigo. Sectigo offers the complete range of available TLS certificates for web sites/applications. Sectigo has always been one of the safest options with some advanced security technologies, including 256-bit symmetric encryption and 2048-bit signatures. Free unlimited server licenses, affordable wildcard certificates are only some of the cost saving features from Sectigo.
2. DigiCert
DigiCert, established in 2003, has been one of the most trusted SSL providers. In 2017, DigiCert acquired the TLS/SSL and PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) businesses from the world’s largest certificate authority, Symantec. As they claim, DigiCert secures more than 26 billion web connections every day and leading companies, including the Global 2000, use DigiCert brands to face the everyday security threats.
3. GlobalSign
Having issued their first digital certificate in 1996, GlobalSign is now providing SSL security to over 250,000 domains around the world. They have proved to be one of the best in customer service. GlobalSign is more focused on providing cloud-based, highly scalable PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) solutions for enterprises. As an add-on option, a Single Domain SSL Certificate from GlobalSign lets you encrypt the mail, owa, and autodiscover subdomains for your website.
4. SSL.com
SSL.com is an SSL Certificate Authority founded back in 2002. SSL.com provides a wide range of digital certificates to fit any need, including SSL/TLS server certificates, code signing, document signing, and S/MIME email certificates.
SSL.com is considered to be among the cheapest SSL providers but with a decent customer service. SSL.com’s Basic SSL certificate works with www subdomain for no extra charge.
5. Entrust – Formerly known as Entrust Datacard
Having a strong background in data and transactional security, Entrust also is a trusted name in digital certificates. Since they target organizations and businesses, they only offer OV and EV certificates. The OV certificates are available in single domain, multi-domain, and wildcard SSL variants. Entrust provides an Advantage SSL OV Certificate which lets you secure two domains at once without paying for the more expensive multi-domain certificate.
6. GeoTrust
GeoTrust is now powered by DigiCert. They focus mainly on SSL certificates, Signing Services and SSL for enterprise services. GeoTrust helps you protect up to 25 domain names with a single certificate if you go with the True BusinessID with EV level certification.
7. GoDaddy
Being one of the earliest and biggest domain registrars, GoDaddy is also offering SSL certification services. Their plans and pricing structure vary based on whether you need to protect of a single website, multiple websites or all subdomains. All certificates include SHA-2 and 2048-bit encryption. They also provide unlimited servers and reissues. Another advantage is that GoDaddy can be the one-stop solution for you to set up and run your business including buying a domain name, managing your websites or applications, availing their SSL certification services, etc. However, GoDaddy’s customer support service has not been up to the mark though they claim about having an award-winning customer support.
Network Solutions was established way back in 1979 and was one of the leading domain registrars in the early days of the internet. It’s a subsidiary of web.com now. Just like GoDaddy, they were into providing a wide range of web related services and offering SSL certificates was added to that list. They offer DV, OV, and EV SSL certificates.
9. Thawte
Thawte is now powered by DigiCert. It helps you to easily manage and optimize your SSL certificates using the DigiCert CertCentral platform. With CertCentral, you can also manage who has deployment and revocation abilities inside your organization. The SSL certificates support up to 256 bit encryption strength.
10. RapidSSL
RapidSSL is owned by GeoTrust which eventually makes it a part of DigiCert. RapidSSL targets smaller businesses and individual websites that are looking for a budget-friendly option. RapidSSL only offers DV SSL certificates and you can secure a single domain.
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