Tips to secure Your Magento shop online

Magento is an ecommerce platform built on open source technology which provides online merchants with a flexible shopping cart system, as well as control over the look, content and functionality of their online store. Also offers powerful marketing, search engine optimization, and catalog-management tools. Among all the ecommerce development platforms, Magento is most applauded from the online merchants and have also seen rapid growth too.

Nowadays, more and more people prefer to shop in online shops rather than in physical shops, which is why e-commerce has become a trendy place to shop. Unfortunately, also due to this phenomenon, e-commerce shops are experiencing hacker attacks and the biggest reason behind these cyber-attacks is related to the set-up, management, and security of the websites. To scale up your business, you need to think about your customers and to protect their confidential data because, if their personal information is at risk, you may lose your customer and sales or might give them a wrong impression on them. So, to maintain security for your store, there are some steps that you need to take care of.

Unlike many other platforms where security is often an add-on, Magento provides you with out-of-the-box security built into the very core of your e-commerce website. Magento security is an inbuilt protection measure that helps in overcoming security issues such as information leaks, data theft, illegal transactions, malware outbreaks and much more

In this article we will provide a list of some practices to be used with Magento to ensure the security of both your e-commerce and your consumers.

1. Migrate to Magento 2. Magento 2 ensures a ton of high-security reforms and great performance. The perks of migrating from Magento 1 to Magento 2 comes up with SHA-256 cryptographic password hashing, but not only that.

2. Keep your Magento version up to date.  Every new version comes up with specific features to ensure high performance and security.

3. Ensure two-factor authentication for your store. Two-factor authentication provides an extra layer of protection and makes it impossible for hackers to attack your store.

4. Do backup regularly. Backup prevents data loss. So, if things went south then using your back up you can automatically recover all the crucial data and there will be no data loss.

5. Get an encrypted connection (SSL/HTTPS) because One of the biggest reasons for security breaches is an unauthorised connection or unencrypted connection.

6. Turn on session expiration. Keeping session expiration helps to protect your Magento store in any case of emergency. Session expiration makes sure that it will instantly lock the admin panel if there has been inactivity for a particular time period.

7. Use complex passwords. Never ever set an easy password for your e-commerce. Always use a complex password which is a combination of upper case, lower case, numbers, symbols, etc. 

Nobody in the world can guarantee you that your store won’t get caught in any cyber attack, but by following these 7 small tips you have a better chance of protecting your e-commerce.