SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is the standard security technology which ensures the establishing of an encrypted link between a web server and a web browser. Thus, the SSL technology ensures that whatever data transmission happens between a web server and browser(s) remains totally encrypted and hence private. Free SSL is offered to create an awareness among internet users regarding the importance of encryption in particular and of web security in general. This is of utmost importance at a time when we hear of hundreds of thousands of instances of data breaches happening and subsequently impacting our day-to-day lives very directly.