US Department of Defense to get HTTPS certification for DoD websites by year end!

The US Department of Defense has issued a directive to get all the public accessible Department of Defense web services from an unsecure HTTP connection to a more secure HTTPS with HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) connection by the end of this year.

The concern was raised by US Oregon Democrat Senator Ron Wyden in a letter sent to the Chief information officer for US Department of Defense, Dana Deasy earlier in May this year to get HTTPS Certification for DoD websites.

Wyden had raised several issues with the current condition of many of the Public accessible websites of the Department of Defense.

He specifically pointed out that most of the DoD websites lacked a proper HTTPS certification. Wyden pointed out that only a small number of DoD websites such as the Army, Air Force and the National Security Agency homepages were implementing the HTTPS certification by default, which is trusted by all the major web browsers.

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