This Christmas, Decorate Your Website with a Green Address Bar and Bolster Your Online Profit.

HOLIDAY Web Security Tips For Online Web Store Owners The Holiday Shopping Seasons opens the doors for hackers to target Online Shoppers and ecommerce platform than any other time of Year. So How do you make your store safe to protect your customer's private information? Holiday retail sales for 2012 are estimated to increase up to 12 % during the months of November & December. Let's look out how much the average Americans has spent since 2006. Consumers are shopping online more than ever 90% 90 % consumers will browse Online Stores and shop by comparing prices, deal or coupon codes for laptops, smart phones, clothes and Accessories. Here is the last 6 months survey report of Global Online Shoppers have payment option 19% 37% 40% 69% BANK TRANSFER DEBIT CARD PAYPAL CREDIT CARD The number of Credit Cards, Debit Cards, & Pre Paid Cards in global circulation reached 6.54 billion at the end of 2011 12.4% raise compare to 2010. 6.54 billion 12.4% $3.56 billion Amount of Payment card fraud losses in 2010 in the U.S. As per Nilson Report (Nov 1011) 47% Amount of U.S. global credit and debit card fraud even though it generates only 27% of the total volume of purchases and cash. As per Nilson Report (Nov 1011) £ 185 millions As per UK cards Association total fraud losses in UK between January-June 2012. Which is increase up to 9% in first of half year. Fraud UK 31% %. US 37% - CHINA 27% of ITALY 22% cardholders who have experienced credit card fraud in the last 5 SINGAPORE 23% MAXICO 37% years. INDIA 27% BRAZIL 37% U.A.E 33% AUSTRALIA 30% Basic Online Shopping Tips 1222 BBB Install SSL certificate, as most of the shoppers shops from secure websites only, having https url and show padlock icon. Register your store with reputed third party (ex. Better Business Bureau Online, TRUSTE) Always force users to create a strong password for their Online account by including letters, Policies Protect your store by Installing Place privacy policy on your website which clearly indicate purpose of cookies and customer data site is firewall and anti-virus software on your server to gain more customer trust. using. How you can make your web store most safe for Online shopping? website or eCommerce store which has "Green Address Bar" is most secure website because it's secure with EV ( Extended Validation) SSL Certificate. It secure customer data with 256 bit encryption strength and website addressbar become green as shown below. https://www thessistore.com/ sslstoreO © www.thesslstore.com Source: 2012 CyberSource Online Fraud Report for US & Canada | Aite Group, Oct 2012 | 2012 WorldPay Report | Nilson Report, April 2012