Which Sites follow Best practices to Encrypt Your Online Data? [Infographic]

Why is encryption so important?! The internet is vulnerable and by enabling various encryption technologies, the service providers can make backdoor surveillance and hacking a more challenging task! For every website it is better to start encryption with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) by default. By doing this, whenever a user connects to the website, the service will automatically use a channel to encrypt the communications.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have surveyed major companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, Dropbox, Facebook and more to look at the type of encryption options they had implemented keep the data out of the hands of hackers. We could see that Dropbox, Google, SpiderOak and Sonic.net—are implementing five out of five best encryption techniques. Also seems that Yahoo! has announced its plans to increase encryption and Twitter has encryption of data center links in progress. Facebook  is working on encrypting data center links and implementing STARTTLS. Tumblr is in plans to upgrade its web connections to HTTPS this year and implement HSTS by 2014. The results are below for you! Check the infograph.

Incorporate some best practices in your site too and make it secure! Read -> A Definitive guide to Secure your Web Server – 50 Best Practices

Via : EFF