Security is Job #1 - SSL for All

Posted on Monday, September 28, 2009 by James

While building LiteAccounting we have worked to create the most safe and secure system possible. We take great care to make sure our database and servers are protected and secure, and we have always provided an SSL connection on all of our paid accounts. SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a web technology that establishes an encrypted connection between your browser and our web server. It ensures that no-one can read or tamper with the data as it travels across the internet.

During a recent review we decided that security is so important to us that we are going to make SSL available to every account, even the free ones. What that means is that even if you only use the free account you can now be sure that your data is not only safe on our secure servers and databases, but that it is tamper proof as it goes over the wire.

As a business it normally isn't in our interest to give away more features for free, but the idea that someone could read or tamper with any of our customers data was enough to make this an easy decision.

-James