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Securing data in transit

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Securing data in transit

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In the last video, we talked about key management service, which allows you to create keys to encrypt and secure data at rest. Now, let's talk about securing data in transit, that is, data moving over the network. Data in transit is secured using SSL/TLS certificates. AWS has a service called AWS Certificate Manager or ACM that allows you to provision and manage SSL/TLS certificates. Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL and Transport Layer Security or TLS or cryptographic protocols that secure communications on the network. TLS is the successor of SSL, and both protocols use certificates to secure communications. Let's understand how it works. When you visit a website, your web browser wants to ensure it's talking to the right website and not an imposter trying to trick you. To do this, your browser requests the server certificate. When the server presents its certificate, the browser verifies that it is issued by a trusted entity, also known as a trusted certificate Authority, or CA. CAs are…

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