HTTPS and TLS/SSL are actually quite similar. They are used together, but not exactly the same. HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) occurs when sites are properly secured with TLS/SSL security certificates. To clarify further, HTTPS is a standard Internet protocol that makes sure that online data is encrypted. It's a more advanced and secure version of the previous HTTP protocol. Originally, Secure Socket Layer (SSL) put the "s" in HTTPS as the "secure" part of the HTTPS protocol that performs the encryption of the data. But SSL has now been replaced by Transport Layer Security (TLS), which is an updated, more secure version of SSL.
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