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Things to Consider for Woocommerce Store Security

Published on 19 February 16
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Woocommerce is the powerful eCommerce platform powering over 30% of all online stores. It is one of the world’s favorite eCommerce solution that gives both developers and store owners complete control. It offers multiple configuration, product variations, and instant downloads to shoppers. Woocommerce comes with the ability to accept major PayPal, credit cards, bank transfers and COD. It involves customer login and entering their personal details, therefore it is imperative to harden the security measures of your store.

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The few basic things that you should consider to keep your data, team, and customers safe in the event of worst case scenarios are:

Secured Hosting

Never put your store anywhere that could put you and your customers at risk. Always, choose a reliable and reputable host whose top priority is site security. Host your eCommerce store on a hosting provider who uses server level security and offers features like up to date server software, ability to prevent the spreading of infections, proactive reviews and patches of security threats and more.

Regular updates


Implement the latest security releases as it contains major security patches. Later you update, the more you make your store accessible to exploits and insecurities. Fix time for your updates as they make your sites more secure. Make an attack proof store by reviewing your updates, testing them, making backups, and deploying to your site.

Create strong passwords

Always pick strong passwords for all accounts related to your store. Passwords like helloworld, password, myname and alphanumeric combinations are considered weak because fraudsters and hackers can easily crack the password and username combination of your website. Create a password using a mixture of lowercase letters, capital letters, symbols and numbers to make your store safe and secure.

Add SSL certificates

It is imperative to add SSL on your eCommerce store, especially on the account login, checkout and creation pages. Without SSL certificate, any data transmitted becomes fair game for hackers. As information is sensitive and is being exchanged between the website and user, therefore it is essential that the information travels over a proper encrypted channel.

Enable two-factor authentication (2FA)

A strong password is not sufficient to safeguard your site. Access to your email is enough for intrudes to gather information to log in by resetting your password anyway. Two-factor authentication is an amazing way to protect your online accounts against unwanted hackers. 2FA ensures your account ownership by verifying and validating logins

Add site protection with VaultPress


Create an active defense against potential attackers whose aim is to harm your store. Enter Vaultpress, which provides multiple levels of support and protection like Daily security scans to ensure all is well, realtime backups and restores and more. It keeps your store secure and safe from attacks, whether it comes from annoying comments or malicious code injections.

Check and adjust your FTP directories setting


Compromised passwords or insecure shared hosting environments might make your site’s FTP accessible for an individual, where they could upload injurious and harmful files to your directories. Lock down sensitive directories of your site’s via FTP and reduce or completely eliminate the hackers potential for damage.

Conclusion

Running an online business involves a lot of work, where you will be always fixing bugs, adding products and conducting marketing activities. Site security is the major concern for all online stores. So, follow the above steps to develop a trustworthy wordpress ecommerce website using woocommerce plugin that is protected well in the rare happening of an attack.
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