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7 Tips Of Another Level Security Addition For Your Magento eCommerce

by JONATHAN PAUL Jonathan Paul working at PHPProgrammers, a leading

eCommerce markets are rapidly growing and have seen tremendous growth over the past few years. Thus eCommerce is widely accepted as a convenient alternative to the traditional way of shopping. Nowadays online payment is the most preferred mode of payment and thus eCommerce gaining momentum. 

Apart from all development, there is some negative point also. Due to the online payment mode, it has become the most lucrative targets for cybercriminals. Though you have already dived into Magento eCommerce development then you have to understand the security measures for the betterment of your dream store. 

Here given types of cybercrime faced by an eCommerce store:

  • Phishing attacks: it aims at the user’s confidential data like login credentials and credit card numbers. In this case, attackers, posing as a trusted entity, try to deceive a victim into opening a phishing spam email, or a text message or an instant message to capture their private confidential information.

 

  • Credit Card Fraud:  Attackers may found multiple vulnerable areas in an eCommerce site that can work as their invasion point to gain payment and user information.

 

Now take a look at on expert recommendations:

# Choose a PCI compliant hosting provider: 

PCI compliant hosting provider means it must follow certain policies and procedures that guarantee a secured payment via credit and debit card. To offer secure transaction facility your eCommerce hosting provider must be PCI compliant and the preventive measure includes anti-malware software, risk analysis, extensive monitoring and proper encryption.

# Prevention methods for DoS/DDoS attacks:

DoS and DDoS both are types of cyberattacks, where DoS stands for denial of service and DDoS stands for distributed denial of service. In both cases, the attackers seek to make some facilities or resources unavailable to the end-user by temporarily disrupting service of the internet user. You need to imply the necessary bandwidth to shield from above-given attacks. 

# Multi-level Security:

To protect the online store from attackers, you need to implement multilevel security to your store. Your hosting provider needs to have adequate protections in place on an ready to apply level like contact forms, search tools, and login fields.

# Using SSL certificate  to secure connection:

To show your eCommerce as a trustworthy business, you need to have an SSL certificate. SSL certificate ensures that your company and customers are protected against any compromised financial or important information. During your eCommerce development ask your developer to implement this certificate to your store to gain trust among the customers.

# PCI scans and updates:

Make sure that your hosting provider must issue frequent updates and PCI scan to identify potential threats that may target your online store. Ask your Magento developer to follow the standard practice to issue automatic updates to prevent new vulnerabilities from viruses and malware.

# Monitor All transactions:

You have to set up alerts to identify potential threats of billing and shipping address or multiple orders by a single user using different credit/debit cards.

# Always use two-factor authentication:

To secure the user data you need to imply two-factor authentications which is an extra layer of security to your online store. A hacker can crack a password very easily but when a code which generally remains valid only for a short duration, is tough to steal.

Conclusion:

Above given recommendations are very crucial to secure your store from cyber attacks. Experts are recommended that always use recognised and expert Magento eCommerce development company for Magento eCommerce development. 

Jonathan Paul is an experienced Magento developer dedicated his creativity for Magento development and working for PHPProgrammers in Australia, a leading Magento eCommerce development Company delivers out-of-the-box Magento solution for any type of eCommerce for years.


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About JONATHAN PAUL Professional   Jonathan Paul working at PHPProgrammers, a leading

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