Bloomberg moving its websites to HTTPS

Bloomberg announced Monday that Bloomberg.com and all sites in its network are transitioning to HTTPS.

The process will be complete by the end of 2016.

Eric Schvimmer, head of engineering for Bloomberg’s consumer-facing web sites, explains why making the change – which Bloomberg expects to complete by the end of 2016 – benefits users, and why Bloomberg is among a select few major media sites that have implemented the change:

Q: How does moving to HTTPS actually make it safer for users?

A: Two fold: first by having an encrypted session between the user and us via HTTPS it insures that no one can intercept the session and monitor what the user is seeing – this is often called a man in the middle attack.

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.