Website Security For Small Business Owners

Website security is very important for all businesses because any breach in website security has the ability to greatly affect them, a website is the face of your company digitally.

For small businesses this is a bigger concern because a website is an asset built at a large expense and may be their only trading platform.

Any damage to the website can cost a business not only financially but also damage the reputation of the company, lead to the loss of private data of the business and customers affecting the normal functioning of the business and can severely affect SEO standings.

A big financial loss coupled with falling customer trust can lead to complete failure of the business within a very short period

Due to these severely implications of cyber attacks on businesses, mitigating this threat becomes even more important and some ways of doing so are as follows

SSL Certification

Getting an SSL certification is the best way to start securing your website from hackers. It is the “s” in “https”.

It helps protect the information customers share with the business and makes your website more trustworthy and stress free to use by encrypting the data travelling to the server.

Additional Security Coding

Websites made using templates on website builders and other CMS based websites have weaker built in security, which is why it is necessary to reinforce that security with customised coding.

Hire Professionals

It may be tempting to hire people who will either build or improve your website for a cheap price, when it comes to cyber security it is necessary to not cut corners and get professionals who can help protect your website, conduct regular inspections of the website for any viruses and update software.

Logins?

?The credentials of customers and admin logins should be kept protected and sessions should be timed to account for lost or stolen devices or if they are away from their device.

The passwords and usernames should be difficult to guess.

The Admin login of a website should be hard to access and not be found on a search engine.

Backups & More

Having data backups on a different server will help ensure that the business keeps running and protects from ddos attacks.

Strong Firewalls can help protect from a lot of other attacks

Properly securing your website can be difficult, especially for small businesses who do not have the right people for it which is why outsourcing website security is the way to go. However, the best course of action is to have your website developers build the security features into it.

Our skilled developers at Net Fusion Technology build and add security features, and will be glad to have a consultation with you to best fit your requirements and improve your website security.