{"id":1190,"date":"2010-10-26T09:30:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T16:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cosaint.net\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2023-03-01T16:48:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T16:48:31","slug":"ssl-all-the-time-secure-web-application-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/ssl-all-the-time-secure-web-application-development\/","title":{"rendered":"SSL All The Time? Secure Web Application Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1194\" title=\"ssl\" src=\"https:\/\/www.empowerbpo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ssl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ssl.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ssl-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Paul Ducklin at Sophos has published a very nice review article discussing why web applications which use SSL (encrypted) connections for login processing should use SSL throughout the application, and shouldn&#8217;t revert to unencrypted connections once the user has been logged in.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the key point that he raises is that &#8211; in most cases &#8211; there&#8217;s really no reason NOT to use SSL. A few years ago, the computational overhead in SSL encryption was a problem but, with seemingly ever-increasing processing power available for relatively low cost, that&#8217;s not the case any more. This is something we&#8217;ve always believed at Cosaint, and all of our training portals use SSL throughout.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/nakedsecurity.sophos.com\/author\/paul-ducklin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">here<\/a>. If you&#8217;re involved in web application development in any way, it&#8217;s worth a few minutes of your time to read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Ducklin at Sophos has published a very nice review article discussing why web applications which use SSL (encrypted) connections for login processing should use SSL throughout the application, and shouldn&#8217;t revert to unencrypted connections once the user has been logged in. Perhaps the key point that he raises is that &#8211; in most cases [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infosec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}