What online businesses should do to protect themselves

Websites should emphasis on the site security by using the following:

1. Encryption and Decryption:
Which involve using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) when transmitting private documents via the Internet. This will guarantee protecting the information in transmission between the web server and the client's web browsers using 256, 128, 56 or 40-bit encryption.

2. Digital signatures:
Which is a digital code attached to a message and is unique to that specific message for identifying the originator of the electronic message and cannot be forged.

3. Securing our web server:
By keeping all the software including the operating system and the WWW server up-to-date, furthermore by using firewalls, Anti-Spyware and antivirus software.

4. Authentication:
Users must be individually identified to enable them specific access that will prevent any unauthorised modification deleting or corrupting of information.
This requires each user to be assigned a username and password within the system. Usernames and passwords are by far the most commonly used means of authentication in any IT systems, and are capable of providing a fairly effective level of protection.