In a recent study, the FBI found that there are 4,000 ransomware hacking attempts every day. These hacks are particularly alarming to business owners, as some of them are committed against customers visiting ecommerce sites. How can you protect yourself and customers? BG Digital Group has an easy answer: SSL Certificates.What are SSL Certificates?
SSL Certificates are a standard way to encrypt your webpage to protect users from having their sensitive information stolen or tampered with by hackers. Adding an SSL Certificate to a website guarantees that the site is authentic (not a fake landing page controlled by hackers), ensures all the data coming in and out of the site is protected with encryption, and increases load speeds for all of your pages. With an SSL Certificate, not only will your page visitors know your site is secure, Google knows too. Adding a certificate will help your page’s SEO rating on Google, putting your page higher on the list of search results.
Owning your own business can be a great pleasure, allowing yourself more flexibility, time, and control, but with those things comes great responsibility. You wouldn’t want to provide your customers with products that may place them at risk, for your own good and theirs. Being trusted by your customers is important, and the last thing you would want is someone’s precious personal information being exploited by hackers because of a visit to your business’ webpage.
In an ideal world, every site should have an SSL Certificate, as dealing with hackers is never a fun thing to deal with. Any website that collects information, whether it be logins, medical records, legal documents, ecommerce transactions, or even simple contact forms needs to be encrypted to protect against ever-evolving hacking tactics.
Lucky for you, BG Digital Group can get you the protection both you and your customers need and deserve. For an annual fee of $100, you can add an SSL Certificate to your site, which would include the padlock in the search bar (as pictured) and security against information hackers. Don’t wait for a hacker to prey upon you or your customers. The extra money is worth saving you from having to explain why a customer’s card was compromised or worse. Give us a call today, and we can add the encryption in no time.
