Securing Your Business, Episode 111

with Neill Feather on July 21st, 2016

Meet Neill Feather, president of SiteLock (the leading provider of website security solutions for business), and this week’s guest.

Neill started his coding journey back in his early teens has continued for decades since in the technology and systems industry. This is a guy who loves data, data analysis, and turning those insights into actionable plans for his company.

In this episode, we’ll talk about Neill’s experience as a leader and technologist and discuss some ways you can transfer some of his lessons into your business.

p.s. Neill recently talked about the technical aspects of site security on his interview on Do the Woo podcast. I’d encourage you to take a listen if you’d like to know more on how to educate your clients about the need for site security.

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Show Notes

People need to worry about security regardless of the size of their business.

Protip: Take an interest and get up to speed with website security.

Sitelock was created because there were not a lot of affordable solutions that were available for small business owners that offered 24 x 7 support. SiteLock provides a wide range of security solutions (including a firewall) for website owners.

SiteLock & WordPress

SiteLock has become diligent in becoming recognized the WordPress Community by sponsoring and attending WordCamps.

Site owners can address security vulnerabilities on their WordPress websites by reviewing and removing plugins that are NOT being used.

The importance of data

Security researchers at Sitelock are looking and reviewing security vulnerabilities daily. (US-CERT)

Many vulnerability trends are being identified from scans of websites.

Sitelock is able to scale from small to large business as you grow.

Encryption, Server Security, and E-Commerce

Hosts will typically handle the security for the servers and the network.

Encryption is mandatory for an eCommerce site.

PCI compliance is necessary when credit cards are being used on a site. You should have your merchant manage the credit card data.

Https will encrypt the data for site owners.

Be careful in thinking that SSL is all you need to secure your site.

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