SSL Acceleration Appliances: Securing Data Transfers
Globalization of business environment and technological innovations leading to data being used across various corporate networks and the Internet, has also led to a new method of conducting business- the ecommerce. This definitely demands for large volumes of data to be loaded and offloaded from servers located in data centers or cloud based. Whatever, be the origin and destination of the data being transferred it is important to note that the critical corporate information should be transferred in a secure way.
Organizations involved in ecommerce use SSL accelerators in the data centers to offload SSL encryption from servers. This not only facilitates to improve the performance of the application but also ensures secure transaction. Moreover, it reduces the number of servers required for such voluminous data transaction and secure processing to support ecommerce. The ecommerce environments and applications require a high-degree of secure connectivity. Hence the traffic management solutions offered for the ecommerce enterprises are powered by Application Delivery Controllers, combined with high-performance SSL acceleration with server load balancing and application acceleration
Most ecommerce websites follow a payment gateway of credit card or debit card processing. The SSL card is a PCI card that is used to generate encryption keys for a secure Remote Access transaction on these websites. Once a transaction is initiated, the server sends the certificate provided by a certifying authority to the client’s machine. This is to check for the authencity of the website. The secret key is then used to transfer the data and information between the two users thus securing the data transferred. The server accelerator card (SSL) helps to reduce the load on the servers paving way for faster transactions.
The SSL cards can also be installed on external units. These units or SSL acceleration appliances when connected to the server facilitate a secure data transaction process. Besides being used for ecommerce activities, SSL acceleration has a number of other benefits too. These high performance cards are used for securing transaction data, offloading processes from servers and improving application processes. Beneficial for local traffic management, global server load balancing, clustering for highly accurate application uptime this also facilitates data center scalability. Its role in application performance acceleration includes transparent SSL acceleration, TCP multiplexing and high-speed HTTP processing. These SSL appliance can also be used for data center modernization, with integration, virtualization and application-specific certifications.
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