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SSL/TLS Security Report Generator

Generate comprehensive SSL/TLS security reports for your domains

Security Report

About

The SSL Security Report generates a comprehensive security assessment of your domain's TLS configuration, combining certificate analysis, protocol support, cipher suite evaluation, header configuration, and vulnerability scanning into a single detailed report. It provides an overall security grade from A+ to F based on industry-standard scoring.

This report is designed for security professionals who need a complete picture of their TLS security posture. It covers everything from certificate trust chain validation to protocol downgrade attack resistance, providing actionable recommendations for each finding.

How to Use

  1. 1Enter the domain name you want to assess
  2. 2Click "Generate Report" to run the comprehensive security analysis
  3. 3Review the overall security grade and detailed findings
  4. 4Follow the prioritized recommendations to address any security issues

Use Cases

How The Report Is Assembled

The report gathers the certificate identity, validity and issuing chain into one place, timestamped so it can be filed as a record of what was live at a moment.

  1. 1Retrieve the live certificate and read its subject, issuer and validity window. Those are the three fields an auditor asks for first, because together they establish whose certificate it is and whether it was current.
  2. 2Record the issuing chain so the path to the authority is visible rather than implied. A certificate presented by an intermediate names that intermediate, and knowing what sits above it is what makes the report useful during an incident.
  3. 3Timestamp the result and report a failure as a failure. Nothing here is cached between runs, so a report taken before and after a change is a genuine before and after.

Keep dated copies of these. The value is almost entirely in being able to say what was serving at a past moment, which is exactly the question an incident review or an audit asks weeks later.

Tips & Best Practices

  • •Run security reports quarterly and after any significant TLS configuration changes
  • •Address critical findings immediately — they represent actual security vulnerabilities
  • •Use the report as a baseline to measure improvement after implementing security changes
  • •Compare reports before and after hardening to demonstrate measurable security improvement

Technical Details

●Scoring: Industry-standard TLS grading from A+ to F based on weighted security criteria
●Checks: Certificate validity, chain trust, protocol support, cipher strength, header config, vulnerability scan
●Standards: Evaluated against Mozilla, NIST, and OWASP TLS best practices
●Export: PDF, JSON, and HTML report formats for different audiences

Frequently Asked Questions

Aim for an A or A+ grade. An A+ requires HSTS preloading, TLS 1.3 support, strong cipher suites, and a complete certificate chain. An A grade means your configuration is secure but may lack HSTS preloading or TLS 1.3. Below a B grade indicates significant security gaps.
The grade is calculated from weighted scores across certificate security (20%), protocol support (25%), cipher suite strength (25%), security headers (15%), and vulnerability status (15%). Each category is evaluated independently and combined using a weighted average.
Yes, the report covers all TLS-related PCI DSS requirements including protocol versions, cipher suites, key sizes, and certificate validity. The report format is designed to satisfy PCI assessor documentation requirements.
As one piece of evidence, yes — it establishes certificate identity, validity and issuing chain at a specific moment, which is often exactly what is asked. It is not the whole answer: auditors generally want a trail of changes, approval records and evidence of review as well. Dated copies of this report alongside your change records make the certificate dimension of that story complete.
Because that is what the certificate names. Certificates are issued by intermediates, which are in turn issued by roots, and the intermediate is what appears in the issuer field. Reporting the intermediate is correct rather than incomplete — the chain above it is what identifies the authority you chose, and the report records enough to follow that path.
Take one before, one after, and compare. The before establishes what was live and when it expires, which matters if the change needs rolling back. The after confirms the server picked up the new file rather than continuing to serve the old one — the failure mode where renewal succeeds and deployment silently does not happen.
No, it describes rather than verifies. A report will happily describe an expired, self-signed or wrong-name certificate because those are all things it can read. For the verdict, use the trust verification page; for chain completeness, the chain checker. This page is the record of what was served, which is a different and complementary question.
Somewhere immutable and dated — a version-controlled repository or an append-only store, with the hostname in the filename. The pattern of snapshots matters more than any single report: a series shows what changed and when, which is the question an investigation actually asks. A single report only answers what was true on one day.

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