Trust Guard: you must have more than a SSL and a smile

scan keeps your data safe, even after the stored on the server a favorite store.

Today, online security seal provider trust Guard goes on a mini campaign to educate the public on safety of the website.

What most buyers know about online safety begins and ends with SSL certificates (the lock on the bottom of the Web page). SSL certificates scramble travel information from point A, point (B).

Because SSL certificates, however, that's not enough information on the website, or in the database is not protected. Clear, move to the Internet with the speed of light and the hacker's always one step ahead-there's a lot more to be done to protect the information online.

Trust Guard has started a campaign to educate online shoppers about what thorough online safety means, start with an online guide, found on their website a href = "www.trust-guard.com/safe-shopping-online.htm" title = "Top Five Ways" onclick = "link Click (this. href) >" The Top five ways to protect yourself while shopping Online

Dave Brandley, co-founder of the Trust Guard, asks: "you know that old axiom-it is not the destination ... it's the trip well, we like to tell our customers that it is not the journey or the destination ... it is both! Yes, you must ensure that where you shop has an SSL certificate. That keeps your credit card information is safely sent to the server of your store. What about when to reach its destination, you must ensure that it is safe, once it arrives there too! "

Brandley, time and time again, says he hears of online shoppers who believe that an SSL certificate fully protects their information. With so many identity and credit card theft, that it is very easy to see that is not only a half truth, it is a dangerous assumption. "It's a false sense of security, Brandley remains."It ensures that people open up their wallets to sites that might not be secure. Provides that, in turn, ensure that people are open to hackers. "