Checkouts & Security: Your Web Host is the Key
What kind of security does your hosting service offer?
If a site accepts credit cards and uses other payment options (PayPal, Paystation, etc.), then it must be secure. A site owner can (and should) install quality software on the business system, but that's just the beginning.
Sensitive customer data, names, addresses and credit card numbers, make small sites attractive targets to hackers. Since this sensitive data is stored on your business system and your host server, that web host better have state-of-the-art security on its shared and private servers. Of course, not just one layer of protection – a firewall and virus zapper. To protect the business and keep check-out transactions private, web hosts require multiple layers of security to protect against a variety of digital malpractice: brute force attacks, wardriving, malware injections and other forms of server intrusion.
Today's most advanced (and reliable) security is capable of defending itself automatically, detecting suspect incoming data and diverting it before it even reaches the host server. Sure, any site owner must locally defend against intrusion with top-flight malware protection installed on the office computer or network. But without a secure server, the doorway to the www is wide open and anyone can walk in.
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