Could your website be harbouring malware, viruses or other foreign content? Could you and your customers’ personal data be under threat whilst you are left completely unaware?
Website hacking is on the rise. Whilst politically motivated hacking known as ‘hacktivism’ and high profile corporate hacking grab most of the headlines (like LinkedIn recently and Sony in 2011), in reality, no company big or small is immune to the threat of hackers.
You may think you’re safe – but every day our website monitoring service WebPure identifies hundreds of sites that are malicious in nature –sites compromised by hackers or specifically designed for phishing or the distribution of malware.
What does this mean for your corporate website?
It is prudent to mitigate the risk by ensuring you have some kind of security in place that can track whether malware or foreign content has been injected into your website.
If Google finds malware on your corporate website, chances are you will drop rapidly from the search engine results pages, if not disappear altogether. That’s a hefty price to pay.
Similarly if you were to have your corporate data or your customers’ information farmed, you would be facing a massive security breach and be left with a giant public relations disaster on your hands.
Through an enterprise level website monitoring solution, you can negate these risks by ongoing testing of your website’s security and usability. Broken pages, missing links and other problems can be identified and fixed, ensuring your SEO ranking stays stable and your website does not return errors. And of course, malicious content can be identified and stopped before any damage is done.
Hacking is all about big money. That’s why you need to make sure your corporate data, brand equity, online presence and valuable search engine rankings are protected, irrespective of your size.
After all, your corporate website is your silent salesperson, the face of your brand and a vital communicator in spreading your message to the world. It’s worth protecting.
