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Ecommerce and security concerns

November 9, 2014 by · Leave a Comment 

Written by SecureNetShop.com

When searching for an online shopping cart software, security is always an aspect that people consider. This is perfectly normal since a fair amount of money transits through ecommerce websites. But how do you evaluate the security aspects when you’re not a security expert yourself? This article will try and help you get started with that.

Cloud vs self-hosted solution

Basically there are two types of shopping cart/ecommerce solutions. Cloud based and hosted. To put simply, cloud based solutions are solutions that an established company provides whereas self-hosted solutions are solutions that you have to customize and host yourself.

When it comes to security, both are on par. But self-hosted solutions can be harder to secure. This is because a secure self-hosted solution will require a full-time developer. This has a cost associated to it. This cost varies, but if you want a secure solution, you’d be better off going for a good (hence expensive) developer.

Implication of the parties

Whether you go for cloud or self-hosted, you want all the parties to be reactive. Security fixes are a big thing in the web site shopping cart sector. So you want your website to be patched (read to apply the fix) as quickly as possible. The timeframe between the security fix release and the patch is proportional to the safety of your site. Some of these companies have people working 24/7 providing support and applying emergency fixes.

SecureNetShop is an online shopping cart solutions provider whether for new ecommerce websites or for existing ones.

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