Why to protect your eCommerce store?

The number of hacking eCommerce websites increases as the more people able to use the Internet, but overall percentage of hackers is fairly constant. According to f-secure(Trustwave Global Security) report 64% percent of data breaches in the retail sector are due to a compromise in the eCommerce environment. This ratio is fairly consistent with the general bell curve of human intelligence. But as eCommerce website security can be a tricky subject. So some care should be taken to protect stores from true hacks by knowing the few shocking facts.

Truth of hacking:

1. 1 of 10 PCs is being infected with viruses each month
2. Hacking account for 67% of data loss in business
3. About 60% of companies which loss important data suspend their activities or shut down with in 5-6 months after the data loss
4. The avarage worker self admitted to wasting 2 hour daily on non-job relates activities
5. About 70% of online merchants suffer from critical data loss at least once in 5 year

One of the best things you can do to protect your business from above losses is to make sure any platforms or scripts you’ve installed are up-to-date and use correct eCommerce platform.

source: hackerone.com, blog.bankupify.com, cnbc.com, cloudwards.net