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5 Ways to Protect Your Ecommerce Business

CyberSecurity Insiders

This portrays a grim picture for ecommerce businesses — filled with data breaches and irate customers. Again, if you don’t secure your clients’ data, you can end up losing their trust, income, and maybe have your brand tarnished. . Again, make a trial payment to see what data you have access to.

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The Basics of eCommerce Website Security

SiteLock

To get you started, we cover four basic— yet essential —website security tips to protect your eCommerce site. PCI compliance is a security requirement created by major credit card brands in an attempt to reduce fraud and increase eCommerce security. It is one of the most effective ways to achieve data security. What is an SSL?

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Back-to-Basics: Use Strong Encryption

PCI perspectives

As small and medium businesses begin to re-open following the pandemic, it’s important to do so securely in order to protect customer’s payment card data. Too often, data breaches happen as a result of vulnerabilities that are entirely preventable. Today’s blog focuses on using encryption to make payment data unreadable.

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Protecting your APIs from Attacks and Data Breaches

IT Security Guru

Because APIs connect services and transfer all types of data, including sensitive data, APIs are vulnerable to attacks that may result in costly data breaches. APIs are Used for Communication and Data Transfer. Implement encryption methods to ensure the secure transfer of data.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 225 and Important Update

Security Affairs

Sonicwall warns of a spike in the number of attacks involving encrypted malware and IoT malware. Capital One data breach: hacker accessed details of 106M customers before its arrest. LAPD data breach exposes personal info of thousands of officers. Hacking eCommerce sites based on OXID eShop by chaining 2 flaws.

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The OWASP Top 10: Sensitive Data Exposure

SiteLock

Sensitive data exposure is an all too common cyberthreat that endangers businesses and their customers, as well as websites and their visitors. billion records containing personal data were compromised as a result of data breaches. Sensitive data exposure can be financially devastating to a website. In 2016, 4.8

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Knock, Knock; Who’s There? – IoT Device Identification & Data Integrity Is No Joke

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The use of IoT technologies holds enormous potential in practically every segment of human enterprise – government, banking and finance, healthcare, retail, agriculture, and ecommerce to name a few. But making the IoT work requires trust in the devices and the data they collect.

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