13 TLS
The Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol is the workhorse of internet security. TLS protects connections between servers and clients, whether between a website and its visitors, email servers, a mobile application and its servers, or video game servers and players. Without TLS, the internet wouldn’t be very secure.
TLS is application agnostic, meaning you can use it for web-based applications that rely on the HTTP protocol, as well as for any system where a client computer or device needs to initiate a connection with a remote server. For example, TLS is widely used for machine-to-machine communications in internet of things (IoT) ...
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