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This past Thursday several hundred folks joined me for a webinar about security in Drupal as part of the Acquia webinar series.

You can now download the Security in Drupal introduction slides which include the speaker's notes and watch the screencast itself:

As Matt Cheney likes to say "Much like Scrabble, the S is an important letter on the internet." If you really care about the data you are sending across the internet you want to make sure you are using SFTP instead of FTP, SSH instead of Telnet, and HTTPS instead of HTTP. So, within a Drupal site how can you use HTTPS to secure the data sent to and from your site and prevent sessions from being hijacked?