There are many reasons you might want to secure traffic to and from your website using SSL. One reason is to secure the login credentials of your users. Another reason is that restricted areas of your website might contain confidential information. Without SSL security, HTTP traffic traveling between the server and your users is passed as unencrypted plain text and binary data, and can be intercepted by packet sniffers or other network applications. SSL encrypts the HTTP traffic to ensure that only two parties can send and read data in the current session: the server and the client.
There are many ways that SSL security can be added to an MCMS website. For example, you can secure your entire website simply by setting the Secure communications
options on the Directory Security
tab in IIS to require SSL. However, securing the entire site would mean longer page processing times and possible barriers for search robots trying to index the site. In most real-world scenarios...