{"id":4660,"date":"2012-12-14T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leap.staging.ribbitt.com\/evs\/smb-securing-your-company-s-website\/"},"modified":"2012-12-14T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T14:21:00","slug":"smb-securing-your-company-s-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leap.staging.ribbitt.com\/evs\/insights\/smb-securing-your-company-s-website\/","title":{"rendered":"SMB &#8211; Securing Your Company&#8217;s Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone,<br \/>\nonline security measures should continue to be a priority for all online<br \/>\nbusinesses. While many companies, both enterprise and SMB, tend to focus on<br \/>\nwebsite security through the major holiday shopping events, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicverificationsystems.com\/solutions\/\" style=\"cursor: text;\">online fraud<br \/>\nprevention<\/a> should be a concern 365 days of the year. Even companies that do<br \/>\nnot have e-commerce driven sites should take cyber fraud as a major threat to<br \/>\ntheir business and consumers. While many consumers take it upon themselves to<br \/>\npractice safe web surfing, online security needs to start with the company.<br \/>\nSmall businesses have a very different fight against online fraud than large<br \/>\ncompanies because they usually have different business models and dependencies<br \/>\non websites.<br class=\"k-br\"><\/p>\n<p>Many small businesses do not have brick and mortar locations<br \/>\nand depend solely on their online presence. This puts an increase pressure on<br \/>\nsmall businesses to have secure websites and a strong <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicverificationsystems.com\/Resources\/Blog\/Importance-of-Fraud-Prevention-for-Business-Startups.aspx\" style=\"cursor: text;\">fraud<br \/>\nprevention strategy<\/a>. Small business owners need to take every precaution<br \/>\npossible to defend and maintain their reputation. Their business models are<br \/>\nmuch more intimate with their consumers and have a more direct line of<br \/>\ncommunication with their consumers. This very close relationship can be put at<br \/>\nrisk with just one incident of mistrust. As a study conducted by Symantec<br \/>\nillustrates, an average of 9,314 malicious website are detected everyday<br \/>\nand 61% of malicious sites are regular sites that have been compromised. That<br \/>\nmeans that a site may be a threat to consumers without the business even<br \/>\nknowing. The best way to ensure that your sites security is not at risk is<br \/>\nimplement a fraud prevention solution that helps to ensure that you really know<br \/>\nwho is visiting your site. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicverificationsystems.com\/solutions\/identifraud\/\" style=\"cursor: text;\">Identity<br \/>\nverification and authentication<\/a> is a fast, easy, and cost efficient way to<br \/>\ntest the identity of the people visiting your site. With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicverificationsystems.com\/products\/knowledge-based-authentication.aspx\" style=\"cursor: text;\">knowledge-based-authentication<\/a>,<br \/>\nquestions are created in a way that only the true identity holder can answer.<br \/>\nProtect your business and consumers beyond the holiday season by implementing<br \/>\nfraud prevention measures that fit your business.<br class=\"k-br\"><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"k-br\"><\/p>\n<p>[Contributed by EVS Marketing]<br class=\"k-br\"><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"k-br\"><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"k-br\"><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone, online security measures should continue to be a priority for all online businesses. While many companies, both enterprise and SMB, tend to focus on website security through the major<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-fraud"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leap.staging.ribbitt.com\/evs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leap.staging.ribbitt.com\/evs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leap.staging.ribbitt.com\/evs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leap.staging.ribbitt.com\/evs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leap.staging.ribbitt.com\/evs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leap.staging.ribbitt.com\/evs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leap.staging.ribbitt.com\/evs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leap.staging.ribbitt.com\/evs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leap.staging.ribbitt.com\/evs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}