Background Information:

An SSL certificate installed on a web server allows that web server to communicate with a web browser over a secured transmission.  Certificates are issued by certificate servers.  Operating systems such as Windows have a list of known and trusted certificate servers.  In the event an SSL certificate was issued by a server that is not known nor trusted, the browser notifies the user it is not known.  Typically, this notification occurs in the form of a security alert.  Web sites with that warning should NOT necessarily be trusted.

The DFA systems group has a certificate server that it uses to issue certificates to its development web servers. Our certificate server is not a known server.  If you are testing on one of our test servers, such as https://servicesdev.dfa.cornell.edu   or https://eworkdev.dfa.cornell.edu/ , you may receive a security warning. To avoid these warnings you need to configure your computer to trust our certificate server.