Checking Web Page Security
•You can check some of the security elements of a Web page by clicking File, Properties, and then the Certificates button.
•Internet Explorer will display security information for the page that appears in the browser window to advise you of the overall security of the page.
•Encryption is a way of scrambling and encoding data transmissions that reduces the risk that a person who intercepts the Web page as it travels across the Internet will be able to decode and read the page’s contents.
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•A padlock symbol appears in the status bar when Internet Explorer loads an encrypted Web page.