SSL certificate secures the website from the user's web browser to your website's server.
- Stated simply, an SSL certificate prevents eavesdroppers from reading the information exchange between your website visitor’s web-browser and your web-server.
- SSL certificates encrypts the messages so that no third-party can understand the messages / information exchange.
- Recently, most web-browsers have made SSL certification mandatory, failing which, your website may be marked as harmful, by the web browsers.