SSL Testing WebSites.

In past couple of months I have come across many websites which helped me a lot to test and check SSL Installation and CSR. I would like to share the same with you.  There are many sites but today I am sharing with you special website which I think helped me a lot with SSL/TLS Testing and CSR testing.  List of websites are as below. I will later share features which I used on these websites and other information

1) SSLTools.com

2) redkestrel.co.uk

3) SSLshopper.com

4) secure.comodo.net/utilities/

-> 1) SSLTools.com

This is very great website I came across in past couple of months. It has great tools are available on this website. Following are description for the same:

1) CSR Decoder (http://ssltool.com/?action=csrDecodeOpenSSL)

CSR Decoder is great tool to check your CSR and verify that information you have filled in is correct and will be shown when you have your certificate from vendors.

2) SSL Certificate Checker (http://ssltool.com/?action=sslCheckOpenSSL)

Have you installed your certificate and want to check it. Here is another great tool to help you with SSL Certificate. It provides immanence information about SSL Certificate and will be very helpful after SSL Certificate installation.

3) OpenSSL S_client connector (http://ssltool.com/?action=sslCheckRawOpenSSL)

Great tool to help you to check the latest about SSL Certificate using OpenSSL s_client option. This tool provide you information like certificate details, CA authority and other stuff.

4) openssl s_client connector with full certificate output (http://ssltool.com/?action=sslCheckRawCertsOpenSSL)

Do you want more information about Certificate with this tool it will be great for you to understand SSL Certificate you have installed on your web server.

5) SSL Certificate Decoder (http://ssltool.com/?action=sslCertDecodeOpenSSL)

Do you have certificate you received from Vendor. Paste it at above URL and you will get all information you want for SSL Certificate  you are going to install on your server before you install it on server.

6) CSR Generator (http://ssltool.com/?action=csrGenerate)

Do you want to generate your own CSR. This tool will help you to generate one CSR for your SSL Certificate.

I will share other options available on SSLTool.com with you and my option about other website at next blog soon.

Write Gaurav Maniar (IT Manager, SSL Support Expert @ www.thesslstore.com, MCITP, MCSE, MCSA)

Online Identity and Trust: Making mobile banking safer Online Identity and Trust « And the SC Magazine Award finalists are… | Main | Password should not be your “password” » Making mobile banking safer

There’s been recent news discussing the vulnerabilities of wireless apps for the banking industry and how they could impact users. As the number of Americans regularly using mobile banking services continues to grow, security concerns will grow along with them.

The challenges for banks to consider are all of the potential vulnerabilities in their implementation to better mitigate risks effectively while managing the delicate balance between extra layers of security vs. user experience.

Here are a few recommendations we suggest bank and financial institutions may want to consider:

– Deploy strong or two-factor authentication that goes beyond the traditional username and password. If username and password are compromised, the fraudster still needs the second factor to gain access to an account. With our VIP mobile SDK, banks can enable a silent user experience for a second factor of authentication allowing greater security without negative impact to usability.

– Implement fraud detection and transaction monitoring. If a hacker passes the front door, real-time fraud detection services can automatically detect novel attacks by recognizing abnormal behaviors in user behavior to help recognize an attack.

– Avoid storing sensitive personal information on mobile devices which can easily be retrieved. For any information that a bank may require users to store on their mobile devices, banks should leverage platform secure storage with various encrypted and obfuscated techniques.

To find out more about the solutions that can help protect your bank and customers, check out these resources:

Resources:
VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP) Authentication Service
Mobile SDK
Fraud Detection Service (FDS)

There is no silver bullet security solution or service that will protect everyone from everything. However, banks and other financial institutions should always consider a layered approach to protect themselves and their customers.

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The recent Gawker database breach is yet another reminder of the weakness of the traditional “username and password” form of security. Previous database breaches, like this one, have shown that users do not realize how vulnerable they are making themselves and potentially their employers to identity and data theft by using weak passwords.

Steve Ragan of the Tech Herald wrote a story that includes a list of the top 250 passwords used by the Conficker Worm that you can read here. The list of passwords is truly impressive and includes many of the classics such as, “12345,” “qwerty” and of course “password.” It is surprising and concerning that these passwords continue to be used time and time again.

With the exposure of all of these passwords, we can’t help but emphasize the value in providing strong (or two-factor) authentication with solutions like our cloud-based VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP) Authentication Service. Strong authentication can be especially critical to the enterprise where mobile employees, partners and customers are logging in and accessing sensitive data.

As these types of breaches continue, more and more enterprise and consumer users will be put at risk. The “username and password” system is an antiquated system that can’t be relied on to protect sensitive information. Additional layers of security are needed to protect users, enterprises and sensitive data and that starts with adding strong authentication.

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VeriSign Customers Honored by Computerworld

Congratulations to Addison Avenue Federal Credit Union and the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, both of which were designated as Laureates by the Computerworld Honors Program. In addition to this honor, Addison Avenue Federal Credit Union was also named as a finalist for the Computerworld 21st Century Achievement Award, an award that honors and documents the extraordinary innovations of individuals and organizations that are leading the global IT revolution.

Addison Avenue Federal Credit Union
Addison Avenue offers its customers the VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP) Authentication Service, a cloud-based, strong authentication service that delivers an additional layer of protection beyond simple username and password. Addison Avenue was the first federal credit union in the U.S. to offer VIP Authentication to help its customers protect their account access and information against fraud or theft. The Addison Avenue case study can be found at this link.

Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court
On Sept. 26, 2009, the Honorable John M. Facciola, Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, issued the first digitally signed judicial order in U.S. history, which was built on VeriSign’s Managed Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Services

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Qualys provides VIP Protection to its customers

At this week’s RSA Conference in Europe, Qualys announced that it will now offer its customers strong authentication protection with our VIP Authentication Service. VIP will provide users of QualysGuard® a safer and more secure way to access and manage their accounts.

Qualys is the latest VIP customer to implement our leading cloud-based authentication service that allows enterprises to secure online access and transactions to obtain compliance and reduce fraud risk. As with VIP, QualysGuard is a SaaS service that requires no on-premises hardware to purchase and deploy. Both companies are continually striving to make the adoption of cloud computing safer and easier for organizations of all sizes.

To download a FREE VIP mobile credential for your Android®, iPhone®, Windows Mobile®, BlackBerry® handsets or most of the devices using the Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) and BREW platforms, click here for more details.

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Cloud-based Authentication Matters Here

Han Dong, Senior Manager – Product Marketing, User Authentication

Thinking of moving your productivity apps to the cloud? Several tech-savvy folk like you have already deployed or are in various states of making the move to leverage an increasing number of enterprise productivity apps that live in the cloud. Just consider the benefits of cloud-apps:

Zero infrastructure investment / capital expenditure (for typical server & software installation, on-going care and feeding, etc.)
Quick-and-easy deployment and provisioning of applications (no need to install software on redundant servers or on every desktop), including multi-tenant (disparate organizations) sharing of pooled resources (of host CPUs, system failover, etc.)
Built for reliability, availability and scalability (RAS) – and thus allowing you to optimize cloud-app access, based on target SLAs, peak utilization, and data protection (fail-over, backup, mirroring, etc.)
Subscription-based “pay-as-you-go” consumption model (less expensive than big one-time license fees plus annual maintenance) – aka “Utility-computing model”
Centralized management, reporting, and maintenance

So if cloud-based services are the panacea for enterprise apps, where are the holes?

Granted you do have to relinquish some control over your IT infrastructure, since much (if not ALL) of the IT infrastructure is located off-site, in the cloud, and managed by a trusted 3rd party. But if ultimately your primary concern is to deliver access to important apps to your users and if doing it in the cloud is somehow more efficient and more cost effective, wouldn’t this scenario at least save significant IT budget spending – certainly in a budget-strapped, IT resource-constrained environment?

You may ask, what about security? Ahhh, the magic word…. Well, it turns out that while Cloud-based apps provide all the great taste of on-premise enterprise apps with fewer IT administrative calories, many of these apps have not addressed the necessity for stronger authentication – to ensure that users who access cloud-apps (and more importantly critical / confidential data) are legitimate and properly verified and authorized to have this level of access.

Two recent articles, one from the New York Times: Cyberattack on Google Said to Hit Password System, by John Markoff and another article from Tech Crunch: Los Angeles Bureaucrats Question The Transition To Google Apps, by Leena Rao, demonstrate a number of real-world examples of exactly just what can happen with popular cloud-based apps. In these articles, the theme is consistent with this very concern about the security of cloud-based apps. And that is, cloud-based apps – been there, done that, but now how are you going to protect users of these apps from getting spoofed or phished?

Strong authentication is what matters here. And VeriSign is committed to the cause of protecting user access with a number of solutions from PKI-based digital certificates on Smart Cards to One-time password credentials for Two-factor Authentication and Risk-based Authentication that leverages “behind-the-scenes” intelligence to monitor, analyze, and protect users from ID theft.

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