My company is deep into the development phase of the most advanced, most ambitious database system (we actually call it an operations system – because its way more than just a database) in the history of our company – and quite possibly our industry(Maintenance Management Services).
Its my job to secure this thing once it goes live – since it will be accessible through the web, which obviously means “to the world”.
I want the transactions encrypted with SSL 128 bit, in the most cost effective way – with a vendor who is known for quality service.
Since I’ve noticed there are a few vendors that offer digital certificates – which one do you like most and why?
In addition, how do you feel about Apache as a secure web server for such an important “operations system”? Personally I feel more comfortable with it than IIS but I wanted to know what the general consensus is.
– Thanks in advance.