With more people turning to the internet this holiday shopping season, take extra measures to guard your paying customers valuable credit card information. Protect your business reputation and give your customers peace of mind by tightening up your website security. The future of your business depends on you being aware of flaws that may exist and fixing them immediately.
The Practical Ecommerce article, “Credit Card Theft: Steps To Protect You and Your Customers“, contains a helpful checklist of ways your customer’s credit card information could be at risk and how you can improve upon them.
A good point made is to only store your customer’s information for as long as you have to. Storing them indefinitely, poses the risk of theft. Once the data is no longer needed, purge it completely from your system. Be sure to read the article for other good points to consider before it’s too late.
Hi. Have you heard about LifeLock? They claimed to protect your identity from thieves especially with financial matters. What do you think about them? Are they real? What can you advise to other people in case for LifeLock?
This is definitely an important subject especially around this time of year. As a retailer it’s your responsibility to keep your customer’s info as safe as possible. One slip and you loose the valuable trust that you have worked so hard to establish. Having an outside source look at your site once in a while is well worth the price.
You’re right Don. In fact, building that TRUST from your customers is really one of the most challenging task business owners must accomplish, IMO.