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5 Ways to Protect Your Ecommerce Business

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This portrays a grim picture for ecommerce businesses — filled with data breaches and irate customers. As per our research, here are five tried-and-tested techniques to protect your ecommerce digital business from dangerous online frauds. eCommerce fraud prevention tools process information from clients and servers in real time.

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What does the Colonial Pipeline attack tell us about security today?

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The fact that 55% of organisations experience a DDoS attack against their APIs at least monthly is a prime example of the threats being entertained. But ransom DDoS is so lucrative that people control and operate the attacks not machines. There’s a misconception that all attacks today are automated.

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Get to Know the Cybercriminal Hacking Your Website

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Risk is High During this Time of Year. If you don’t think your eCommerce site is at risk, think again. Often times, they’ll launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on websites of their choice to disrupt traffic. There are several types of cybercriminals out there. Black Hat Professionals.

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Protecting your APIs from Attacks and Data Breaches

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While APIs help businesses accomplish many strategic and operational goals, simplify software development and improve user experience, they are not without risks. Part of API security is discovering APIs that fall within this category and properly managing them to mitigate risk. APIs are Used for Communication and Data Transfer.

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How to Mitigate DDoS Attacks with Log Analytics

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Is your organization prepared to mitigate Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against mission-critical cloud-based applications? A DDoS attack is a cyber attack that uses bots to flood the targeted server or application with junk traffic, exhausting its resources and disrupting service for real human users. Source: Testbytes.

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Your Small Business Cybersecurity Guide to the Most Common Cyberthreats

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However, SMB websites won’t face less risk — they’ll actually face different types of threats as cybercriminals adapt their methods. Noisy Cybersecurity Risks for SMBs. Cybercriminals conducting DDoS attacks deploy a network of hacked machines called a “botnet” to flood servers with traffic they can’t handle.

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4 Steps to Securing Your Startup Website

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However, your website and your business are put at risk every day by an unseen threat : cyberattacks. Even if your business doesn’t deal in eCommerce, a trust seal declares to your customers that your website is not only safe and secure, but legitimate. Most certificate providers offer trust seals that you can display on your site.

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