How safe is your website from hackers, really? If you don’t already know the answer to that question, it’s probably between ‘not very’ and ‘not at all.’ And you certainly aren’t alone in that.

In a lot of ways, we think about cybercrime the same way we look at real-world crime. It’s something that happens to other people. Hackers aren’t interested in breaking into our site and stealing our data – why would they be?

Criminals love that attitude, as it makes it much easier for them to target their victims. Read more

When you see the address bar of your browser turn green, you know it’s safe to send sensitive data over the internet to that site. All eCommerce stores need an SSL certificate to keep shoppers safe, but what exactly does an SSL certificate do?

An SSL certificate has two jobs: to prove that a web page is controlled by the people who are supposed to control it and to encrypt all of the information sent from the shopper to the store and back again. Read more

Would you do business with somebody you don’t trust? Neither would your customers. Phishing attacks are at an all-time high, with 1.4 million new phishing sites being created each month so they have good reason to be suspicious of any website—including yours.

When it comes to gaining your visitors’ confidence, the rules have changed. On today’s fraud-filled web—it’s no longer who you think you are, it’s who a globally trusted third-party Certificate Authority (CA) says you are. Read more