Security is a top priority for Google. We invest heavily in ensuring that our services use industry-leading security — strong HTTPS encryption — by default. That means people using Google Search, Gmail, and Google Drive, for example, automatically have a secure connection. But beyond our own stuff, we’re also working to make the Internet safer. A big part of that is making sure that websites that access Google from Google are secure.
In recent weeks, Google has started to give very specific warnings, explaining that australia email list example all HTTP pages containing forms to fill out would now be marked as “Not secure”: for Google, every form has become “a possible access point for a pickpocket on a souped-up Vespa 50 in front of a Post Office” (quote @tagliaerbe). Not only that, the new version of Chrome (62) marks HTTP sites that require the user to enter data (not just passwords and credit cards) as not secure: the wording “Not secure” will also be shown when the user tries to enter data on the site, while in Incognito mode, the label will be shown immediately when the page loads.
In short, Google's goal is to get to flagging all HTTP pages as "Not Secure" and in doing so, it is bluntly advising all website owners to switch from HTTP to HTTPS as soon as possible.
But what is the HTTPS protocol?
And what about SSL certificates, which are necessary for migration from HTTP? HERE you can review them, we were already talking about them at the beginning of 2017 when we highlighted their benefits in terms of SEO.