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A Qualys Journey From A to A+ (part 2)

In my last post, after updating the blog to use TLS1.2 and adding a CAA record thinking I would clear an A+ rating, I only retained an A rating. In this post I continue the journey striving for that A+ rating. Enabling HSTS It turns out that Mozilla observatory has a test you can also run, one that looks to be way stricter and they were not as impressed giving my site an F rating with a score of zero!

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A Qualys Journey From A to A+ (part 1)

When it comes to your website, whats better than an A on your Qualys report? Why it has to be that A+! It might not seem like a big deal, but I still wanted to max out my score where I could. Little did I know I was about to get an education in the process. The Qualys SSL labs tester can be accessed via this URL https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html. My initial report came back as follows:

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