Recognizing a Secure Ecommerce

Written by Secure Net Shop

Online stores have gained much attention by consumers and merchants. The idea of being able to buy anything within a few clicks has an undeniable appeal. However, buyers do expect their experience to be hassle free and secure. This is an aspect that serious merchants take very dearly.

With the amount of websites out there, how does one determine which is secure and which is not. If being sensible about putting one’s credit card anywhere online is a good reflex, there are some other, easier to follow rules about security.

Most of the time, shopping cart ecommerce websites use very advanced encryption algorithms to encode and send the customers’ information to the shop’s database. Credit card numbers are thus completely encrypted and cannot be read by the naked eye, even by the personnel working on the website. Naturally, this makes it almost impossible to have any loss of crucial information.

Buyers should be very wary of a few things that pertain to a site’s security. To start, it must be made sure that the website URL starts with “https://”. The address bar of the browser will contain that information. Some sites only display “http://” (note the lack of the “s”), adding the “s” only when an order is to be made. Other sites show the secure URL on all pages, at all times. Another icon of security is the padlock sign, present on the browser’s address bar. An open padlock means the website is not secure, a closed one means it is.

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