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
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