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title: "Securing Site with SSL"
date: "2019-03-31T01:07:39+00:00"
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These days, using SSL with your website isn't just a good idea it's essentially a requirement. Encrypting the information that's sent between visitors' browsers and your website is the new price of doing business.

Fortunately, Acquia has a lot of experience helping to secure websites, and we've collected several of these tips into a [best practices article](https://docs.acquia.com/articles/best-practices-fully-ssl-protected-site) on the Acquia Help Center.

Want to know about using Varnish with SSL (and you're an Acquia Cloud user)?

_[It's in there.](https://docs.acquia.com/articles/best-practices-fully-ssl-protected-site)_

Want to ensure that all of your website's assets are served to visitors using the HTTPS protocol?

_[It's in there.](https://docs.acquia.com/articles/best-practices-fully-ssl-protected-site)_

Want to set up your 301 redirects from your HTTP pages to HTTPS?

_**Surprise!** [It's in there.](https://docs.acquia.com/articles/best-practices-fully-ssl-protected-site)_

For more information on how best to use SSL with your website, [visit the article](https://docs.acquia.com/articles/best-practices-fully-ssl-protected-site) and read for yourself.

And for even more information that you can use with your Drupal website, feel free to browse the articles and resources on the [Acquia Help Center](/node/55865).