Whenever I am asked to help someone stand up a new website inevitably we get in to discussions around site security and user experience. I am asked what makes the website secure? How do I inform my customers so they will shop with us? Should I place fancy banners and pretty logo's that say we are secure? And my answer is always the same. No!

Website security starts with the user, and is 90% based on the users of the web address. There is no website that is impervious to hackers and those who wish to steal information from it. For hackers it is the challenge. Like a new adventure. But there are those who do have malicious intent and if they want your information and do what ever it takes to steel it! Then there are the spammers who drive us all crazy.

So how are websites secured? Well my daddy once told me a lock keeps an honest person honest. When I was growing up we never locked our front door. We lived in a small town and no body locked their homes, or their cars, etc. Until one day my daddy had all his tools for work stolen from his shop. Well from that day on locks were on everything. The days of blindly trusting stopped there!