SSL Certificate with Adobe Business Catalyst
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We moved to Adobe BC CMS and added an SSL cert. The way BC sets their SSLs up, the certificate hostnames don't match the site hostnames as the alternative names are in fact businesscatalyst.com and worldsecuresystems.com.
My IT department thinks this will cause SEO issues. Any one know anything about this? I would think that the protocol change to https is what they are keying in on even if they don't admit it.
IT found this site, SSLlabs.com that states after an SSL server test that the certificate is not trusted due to this configuration.
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