Blog Post
I'll say it again!
noreply • Mar 12, 2020
Why a secure website is so important to small bubsiness websites.
Two Colossal Reasons!
There is a Cyber attack every 39 seconds
43% are against SMB
Why would I care if my website is hijacked? Sometimes hackers will direct folks to a completely different looking website, typically trying to sell something. Customers and potential customers will not be very happy and will likely attribute the problem to you! Also, and worse for you, hackers may duplicate your website and add items that can collect personal and financial information from your clients that think they are on your website.
What else?
Google.
"In the future, we expect to further restrict insecure downloads in Chrome. We encourage developers to fully migrate to HTTPS to avoid future restrictions and fully protect their users. “ Google
Google for a long time has been moving the internet towards a more secure internet. They move this process along, in part, by impacting search results for websites that are not compliant. That could hurt. A lot.
In addition, they are phasing in “Not Secure” notices in various formats for insecure webpages. In the future, they expect to disallow unsecured websites all together. In October downloads of files (images, ebooks, PDFs, etc.) will be blocked.
Is yours secure?
Have a look online. What do you see in the address bar at the top of the page? A little locked padlock? An unlocked one? Locked means you already have the SSL. Unlocked, you don’t.There are many suppliers for obtaining a SSL Certificate for your website and your hosting company will be able to help. Contact your hosting provider and have yours enabled today. You may want to note that some folks charge for them and some folks do not. Caveat emptor.
Google.
Google for a long time has been moving the internet towards a more secure internet. They move this process along, in part, by impacting search results for websites that are not compliant. That could hurt. A lot.
In addition, they are phasing in “Not Secure” notices in various formats for insecure webpages. In the future, they expect to disallow unsecured websites all together. In October downloads of files (images, ebooks, PDFs, etc.) will be blocked.
Is yours secure?
Have a look online. What do you see in the address bar at the top of the page? A little locked padlock? An unlocked one? Locked means you already have the SSL. Unlocked, you don’t.There are many suppliers for obtaining a SSL Certificate for your website and your hosting company will be able to help. Contact your hosting provider and have yours enabled today. You may want to note that some folks charge for them and some folks do not. Caveat emptor.
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Five in a series.
This post is the fourth in a series where I want to share some of the things I have learned over the course of my career. It has been varied in terms of industry and the customers served and has given me many valuable lessons along the way. I hope to benefit my clients with advice, ideas and cautions as a way of contributing to my local community. Next up was a sink or swim introduction to the early years of the internet. My love of travel, and startups, lead me to a new subsidiary of a large travel wholesale group in Ft. Lauderdale. Certified Vacations offered wholesale travel packages in addition to running Continental Airlines Vacations and (CAV) Delta Airlines Vacations (DAV). I want to work for New River Technologies (NRT) which was the internet arm for Certified. Fast and furious, my experience with NRT was exhilarating! I managed a large staff of web designers and we crafted dynamic websites for CAV, DAV and countless others. Understanding client needs and goals and translating them into the digital environment was a challenge in this new form of communication. Key was understanding how people wanted to learn about and book travel. Early on we developed relationships with Microsoft, Priceline, Expedia and other emerging online travel sellers and, looking back, the experience was absolutely thrilling. To say that the pace was fast is an understatement! I was hooked. Somehow, I had to figure out how to leverage my marketing, advertising and communications background into a dream job. A short stop with Sunglass Hut, before they were bought by Luxottica, honed my skills for effective communications with retail customers. We launched a new, and very innovative, website for sunglass sales that, like other startups, was full of challenges in every department. We were a small group and gathered in a small area, we all learned a lot about each area of the business. The programming side of websites has evolved so far from some of the early days I am grateful have been witness to the genesis of what is now a highly technical process. 2000 was a big year and was highlighted by a move to Small Business Ownership. Stay tuned!
