How Using the Services of a Website Security Consultancy Can Prevent Hackers Defrauding Your Busines

You wouldn’t advertise your name, address and credit card details on the main page of your website would you?

Yet that’s as good as what you are doing when you hand over your personal details to a website that has ‘critical vulnerabilities.’

Consider for a moment: what would happen to your business if you fell victim to data theft or fraud? Your reputation could be compromised as a result of the unwelcome publicity. You would almost certainly lose customers or clients. How would this unfortunate incident impact on your ‘bottom line’?

If you’re a company that does business online, you owe it to your customers to protect their valuable data by ensuring your website is as secure from fraudsters as it possibly can be.

Website security is one of the major considerations consumers take into account before sharing their personal details online. In recent times, people have become more aware of the dangers of sharing their personal information with ‘faceless’ corporate websites which may offer them little protection from unscrupulous hackers.

The good news is these dangers are, in the main, preventable.

 A security audit by an established website security consultancy will identify areas of vulnerability and weakness in your company’s website and resolve these issues before trouble strikes.

It is advisable to have your website checked out by someone other than your web developer.

Why?

Because your web developer is too close to the project and is unlikely to pick up anything he’s overlooked the first time round. It’s like proof-reading your own reports. Isn’t it always easier to find glaring mistakes in a document someone else has written, rather than something you have written yourself?

A professional website security consultancy will run automated and manual tests on your web applications to ensure everything is as secure as it possibly can be. Any security issues picked up will be dealt with.

The benefits of having your website professionally audited are:

• If you undertake monetary transactions online you will satisfy the mandatory industry requirements of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which necessitates all enterprise and Web applications handling credit card and account information to undertake an extensive audit of custom application code.
• Customers will feel more secure about doing business with you.
• You will be more relaxed about your business’s culpabilities knowing that your website and the data associated with it is as safe as you can possible make it.