SSL certificates are only secure if they are issued and signed by a trusted signing authority. Google, Microsoft and state and federal governments are falling victim to fraud, says author. Self-signed certificates do pose a higher risk if not properly implemented, but offer the same or more security if implemented properly. Proper implementation of your CA root certificate that is used to sign all SSL certificates in your environment is paramount in order to maintain a secure SSL implementation. To make certificates you issue trusted you need to deploy your root server’s public certificates into workstation browsers that will be accessing your secured.”]