Why a secure website is so
important to small business websites
Two Colossal Reasons!
Credibility and Trust are paramount for small business and one of the first places consumers come in contact with you, and your company, is through a website.
I don’t understand. What is a Secure Website?
It may sound technical, maybe this will help:
When you open a website on your computer, tablet or phone, you use a browser like Chrome, Firefox or Safari to see the information and images on the webpage. This information comes from the website owner’s server (a powerful computer) that contains all the files that make up every page. There are files for text, design of that text, images, styles and much more.
Imagine this process as the Postal Service. As data (files) move from the Web Server to your Browser, it is like the mailman who picks up a letter to be delivered. From the mailbox, next stop is a local office for sorting. Next, it goes to a distribution center where it is sorted again. Then on to the recipients post office for more sorting. Finally the mail carrier brings it to you. ANYWHERE along the route the mail could be looked at, or altered.
There is a Cyber attack every 39 seconds
43% are against SMB
So, among the things that can happen along the way, a website can be hijacked.
Why would I care if my website is hijacked? Sometimes hackers will direct folks to a completely different looking website, typically trying to sell something. Customers and potential customers will not be very happy and will likely attribute the problem to you! Also, and worse for you, hackers may duplicate your website and add items that can collect personal and financial information from your clients that think they are on your website.
What else?
Google.
"In the future, we expect to further restrict insecure downloads in Chrome. We encourage developers to fully migrate to HTTPS to avoid future restrictions and fully protect their users. “ Google
Google for a long time has been moving the internet towards a more secure internet. They move this process along, in part, by impacting search results for websites that are not compliant. That could hurt. A lot.
In addition, they are phasing in “Not Secure” notices in various formats for insecure webpages. In the future, they expect to disallow unsecured websites all together. In October downloads of files (images, ebooks, PDFs, etc.) will be blocked.
Is yours secure?
Have a look online. What do you see in the address bar at the top of the page? A little locked padlock? An unlocked one? Locked means you already have the SSL. Unlocked, you don’t.There are many suppliers for obtaining a SSL Certificate for your website and your hosting company will be able to help. Contact your hosting provider and have yours enabled today. You may want to note that some folks charge for them and some folks do not. Caveat emptor.
Don’t hesitate to contact SeaShell Digital with any questions.
Google.
Google for a long time has been moving the internet towards a more secure internet. They move this process along, in part, by impacting search results for websites that are not compliant. That could hurt. A lot.
In addition, they are phasing in “Not Secure” notices in various formats for insecure webpages. In the future, they expect to disallow unsecured websites all together. In October downloads of files (images, ebooks, PDFs, etc.) will be blocked.
Is yours secure?
Have a look online. What do you see in the address bar at the top of the page? A little locked padlock? An unlocked one? Locked means you already have the SSL. Unlocked, you don’t.There are many suppliers for obtaining a SSL Certificate for your website and your hosting company will be able to help. Contact your hosting provider and have yours enabled today. You may want to note that some folks charge for them and some folks do not. Caveat emptor.
