In today's digital world, customers expect a certain level of online security when interacting with businesses.
With the growing digital presence of businesses, it is becoming increasingly important to keep your customers safe online.
In this content, we will talk about the security of your main touch points with users and customers which are your website, email and online purchases.
How HTTPS helps secure your website
Let's start with the website. It is important to make sure that only the people who are involved in managing your website have access to the systems used to update and host it.
You should also use HTTPS, ie "Protocol for Transferring Text Links Securely". HTTPS encodes the communication between a user's browser and your website, helping to protect the information sent and received by making it difficult to eavesdrop and intercept.
It is useful to use HTTPS to protect your website even if you are not dealing with sensitive information.
This is because any information about a visit to the Website may reveal sensitive details about the visitor.
For example, if your website has text fields open, the user may mistakenly enter their contact details or other data that might threaten their security if they get into the wrong hands.
Besides the security of your website, using HTTPS can increase your website's ranking on search engines.
For example, Google search uses HTTPS as a positive indicator of website ranking.
How to encrypt email
In addition to the website, it is also important to focus on email. Choosing an email provider that supports encoding is an important step in protecting your business and your customers.
Be sure to choose a service provider that uses Transport Layer Security (TLS), such as Gmail or Outlook, to ensure that your communications are encoded.
Two-Step Verification is not only useful for securing email accounts, but also helps protect all other signed-in accounts.
Incorporate 2-Step Verification into your products
If your business offers and sells services or software online, we recommend that you incorporate 2-Step Verification into your purchase.
By giving users and customers the option to use 2-Step Verification, you will help them keep their accounts secure when they access your product.
In this lesson, we talked about the security of your website, email, and online products.
We also took a look at how HTTPS can protect your site and how important it is to you and your customers.
We also addressed the necessity of choosing an email service provider that is able to encode your communications.
Finally, we discussed how to securely access your products on the Internet.
Following these steps will enhance the security of your website and communications, which will be of great benefit to you and your customers.