Ways to improve your eCommerce website security
17 Oct 2018

“I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.” (Jerry Garcia)

Everyone is pretty much excited for the holiday season and we see people booking tickets for their holiday session. As during the holiday session, customers are eager to get some additional discounts and deals which can give them an added privilege. Hence, for the holiday season, you should be planned completely without neglecting the security part of your website.

Security comprises an essential aspect of any business. For online businesses and e-stores, security must be well developed to prevent blunders and mishaps. For the holiday season, definitely there would be greater traffic on your website, you must be all sure that you have made the necessary checks.

Below are some of the reasons that will aid you in understanding that your e-store has the right security.

 

·          Keeping information private

You must take notice of that the payment information gathered as a result of the consumer’s shopping is safe and far from the reach of being stolen. If stolen, definitely you’re in big black trouble. Tens or thousands of dollars will be your penalty of violating the laws usually the greater the company the greater is the penalty.

In order to avoid such a mistake, do not store payment information on your systems neither make a record of this information and stay away from this information as far as possible.

Sometimes, the intermediate website is not involved for accounting the payment information and during breaching circumstances, the website would be free of such information, hence saved from paying penalty. This practice so far is the better one.

 

·          E-commerce platforms

Web developers are generally focused on the security of the applications whereas the e-commerce platforms hold a number of vulnerabilities. The frequent attacks and threat to the e-commerce platforms are due to SQL injection and cross-site scripting. In SQL injection, harmful and malicious data is injected into your website whereas in cross-site scripting, malicious codes get into your website.

For avoiding these attacks, e-commerce platforms should be checked thoroughly and added extensions should be eradicated. E-commerce platforms should always be up to date.

 

·          Server

An e-commerce store is not simply a website it is a blend of both the e-website and the server. The consumers and shoppers are in communication with your website do not make sense of keeping vulnerabilities in your server. Shared hosting ambiances should be crippled as these invite server danger.

“People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?” (Philip Green)

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