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OMB Directs Federal Transition To HTTPS

Wednesday, June 17th, 2015

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The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memorandum on June 8 directing all publicly accessible federal websites and web services to only provide service though a secure and encrypted HTTPS connection, called the HTTPS-only standard.“Unencrypted HTTP connections create a vulnerability and expose potentially sensitive information about users of unencrypted Federal websites and services,” Tony Scott, Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO), said in an OMB blog post on the memo.Unsecured websites can expose data including browser identity,…

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