The Importance of Developing and Maintaining a Secure Business Website

Featured article by Calvin Page, IT Specialist

It is one thing to create a fully-functional, attractively designed and easy-to-use website for your business. However, if you’ve done this, it’s important to note that the work does not stop there. Maintaining your website and ensuring that it is secure should be a top priority, more so if you run an online store where customers can enter their personal information and banking details. Even if your website is simple or ‘static’, it’s still crucial that it is properly updated and maintained and that the security is kept up to date in order to protect yourself and your visitors from hackers and malicious malware. Read on to learn more about the importance of developing and maintaining a secure business website.

Keeping Up to Date

Even if your website doesn’t have an online store or you don’t earn revenue from it, it’s important that it’s kept up to date. Not only does this reflect your brand and business, it also ensures that any customers who do visit your site are not being misled or provided with out of date information. For example, if your business address moves, this should be immediately updated on the website – failure to do so could result in potential customers visiting your business’ old site, which will be a loss of a customer for your business and could potentially damage your reputation. Adding a blog to your website is a great way of keeping your website up to date and ensuring that your customers have access to all the latest information on your business.

Behind the Scenes

When it comes to keeping your website updated, it’s not just the display that your customers will see that you need to think about – you need to ensure that behind the scenes is up to date as well. Regularly check your website for things that may need fixing, such as broken links and misspelled words that can be changed from the HTML side of things. You also need to keep an eye on your HTML to ensure that it’s up to date with current standards or your website may not work or display as it should.

Security

Keeping your website secure is one of the main reasons why maintaining your website is so crucial. Website that are not secure are at risk of hackers and malicious malware, which do not just pose a risk to yourself but also to any customers visiting your site as well. You don’t want to lose customers because a visit to your site resulted in them spending hundreds of pounds getting their computer repaired thanks to a virus! If you’re unsure about how to maintain your website’s security, visit commsupportnetworks.co.uk – they provide great courses for learning everything you need to know to keep your website secure.

Do you have any great tips for those looking to develop and maintain a secure business website? If you’d like to add any further information to this article, we’d love to hear from you – leave your answer in the comments below.