How to Authenticate Any New eCommerce Website?

 When it comes to ecommerce, keeping your customers' information secure is a top priority. It is critical for your company to do everything possible to keep your customers' information secure on your website. Having an authentication system in place is one way to accomplish this. Authentication is the practice of verifying that someone is who they claim to be. When a customer logs in to your ecommerce site, which stores their credit card information, you want to make absolute certain that they are indeed that customer.

The most common type of hacking is authentication-based hacking. It is up to your ecommerce company to provide the most secure authentication for your customers. Your company must strike a balance between strong security and ease of use for its customers. Your ecommerce site should use an authentication method that keeps your customers' information secure but isn't so onerous that it turns away potential customers.

As a result, keeping your customers' data security is critical to maintaining not only trust but also a positive perception among website-ranking institutions, partners, product suppliers, and others. Let's take a look at steps to secure your e-commerce website.

Step 1: Promote Good Password Hygiene

Despite competition from technologies such as facial recognition and multifactor authentication (MFA), passwords remain the standard access keys to most software. We need passwords for every service or website we access, so for many users, using the same password for multiple services just seems easier. The problem with this approach is that once hackers have stolen the reused usernames and passwords, they can be used to access a variety of services, resulting in widespread fraud.

"As a group, humans have pretty poor credential hygiene, so there's a good chance they'll reuse those same credentials at other sites, and a good chance one of those sites where they've reused those credentials has been breached."

If you insist on using passwords for the time being, keep in mind that they should have a minimum number of characters (at least six, preferably eight to ten) and include numbers and symbols. It's also a good idea to make users change their passwords on a regular basis.

Step 2: Use HTTPS

HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is an online protocol for secure internet communications and one of the simplest ways to help protect your e-commerce website from fraud. HTTPS websites are authentic and secure because they are certified, as indicated by a closed green lock icon in the browser address bar. This means that the website is what it claims to be and is not a forgery placed online to deceive users so that bad guys can steal access credentials, credit card data, and other information…read more