What does the title mean?

Before the answer is revealed, you may have noticed that your browser's address bar turns green and a lock icon is displayed when you visit our website www.5uwebsite.com.

This is because our entity's identity has been verified by the certificate authority. In other words, the website www.5uwebsite.com has been investigated and it does belong to the company 5U Website, which is a real business in the city of Richmond, BC., Canada. 

This procedure of verification is called Extended Validation (EV). It is a very strict process and therefore your browser has turn on the green light.

Why is that important?

As everyone can hire a web designer to build a professional website and claim to be the business owner, lots of online frauds can occur. In order to ensure a user is dealing with the genuine website, many companies have got their websites extended validated. For example, many online banking websites take advantage of EV to prevent a phishing site with similar appearance to collect sensitive information such as username and password from their users for illegal purposes. For the same reason, we hope our users know that they are dealing with a trustworthy website and it is verified to be run by the company 5U Website.

In addition, you may have noticed that the usual seen "http://" is replaced with "https://" at the beginning of our URL. This means our website is now encrypted with a protocol called Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to prevent eavesdropping. When you login to online banking or email accounts, it is almost guaranteed that you will see "https://" in the URL of the login page. This is because these websites use SSL to seal your connection with them so that hackers are much more difficult to capture the data being transferred.

Do you want to protect your website(s) and users with similar ways? Please do not hesitate to contact us for more information.