What is the little lock that shows up on the check out page?
Many of you have probably noticed the lock or key icon that appears occasionally in your web browser and wondered what this icon really means and what a merchant needs to do in order to have the same icon appear on their Web stores checkout pages. The lock or key icon (depending on which browser you are using) is an indicator to confirm that you are accessing a page protected by “Secure Socket Layer” (SSL) encryption. In layman’s terms, it means that the data being displayed on the page, as well as any information inserted by a customer on the page, is encrypted when being transmitted from the customers browser to the server and vice versa. It is important to note that this alone does not guarantee that data on the server is impenetrable, however is does assure customers that a snooping “outsider” is unable to read the information as it is being transmitted through the World Wide Web.
