It is important to know yourself about the security of your website or network. After all, as the owner, you yourself are legally responsible for that security. Trust Guard scans your website or network for more than 75,000 known vulnerabilities, but should it happen that you are hacked, it is good that you can prove to a judge that you are scanned by an independent scanning party. From the privacy laws alone (GDPR), you need to be able to show that you are taking action to fix those vulnerabilities.
Trust Guard offers the possibility to display the results of the scan in different report standards, such as PCI/DSS, ISO27001, NIS2, GDPR, OWASP, SOx and HIPAA. You can use these reports towards credit card companies (PCI/DSS), cooperation with other companies (ISO audit), for Home Shopping (OWASP report), WebWinkelKeur, Becom (Belgium) and for privacy legislation (GDPR report).
You can choose the frequency at which you want to be scanned: daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly. When no vulnerabilities are found on your website, you can display the Trust Guard seal on your website. Your customers can now see that your website is regularly scanned and that you are making sure your website is secure.
Commercially, displaying the Trust Guard seal is a conversion booster! You can simply test Trust Guard for two weeks with no obligation [use your reseller link here, found in the dashboard under the reseller menu]. You can now experience for yourself how customer-friendly the Trust Guard dashboard is. After creating a test account, Trust Guard will contact you for a brief tour of the dashboard and to add domains/IPs and users if necessary.
TIP: You can of course add that you can help solve the vulnerabilities found.
That depends on the size of the webshop. The privacy legislation (GDPR) states the obligation to ‘adequately’ secure. A small webshop will not be expected to spend € 10,000. However, for a KLM or Philips, € 10,000 is a joke (according to the judge!). Another element that plays a role is the security perception of the webshop owner himself.
How many domain names and/or sub-domains does the shop have? Is it only www.shop.nl or also login.shop.co.uk (sub-domains can point to other servers via the DNS, and thus need their own/extra scan). So it is also a cost issue.
What you also have to take into account is, how often the shop installs, integrates or updates new plugins. If that is only twice a year, then a quarterly scan is basically sufficient. However, our advice is at least a monthly scan, because new security vulnerabilities are discovered weekly in existing environments, including the dangerous zero-day exploits! But for daily/weekly technical modifications (from template, javascript to new plugins) weekly or daily is recommended.
And for the logo, daily scanning is recommended because the customer will see the current date in the logo and thus know that their personal data is safe.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) affects all organizations that process personal data. Businesses that violate the law can be fined up to 4% of annual turnover. In addition, the Data Breach Notification Duty states that if your customer data has inadvertently come into the possession of third parties you must report this to the ‘Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens’ and inform all your customers. For critical sectors such as healthcare, energy, transport, drinking water, wastewater, digital infrastructures, space, banking, public administration, infrastructures financial markets, ICT service management, the European NIS2 legislation is even stricter and the fines even higher.
The owner of an online store is always legally responsible himself, not the site builder or whoever maintains or hosts it. You can never outsource that liability. It is therefore important that you check your own systems as well as those provided by suppliers for security. Trust Guard not only provides insight into possible security problems, but also helps you legally prove that you have taken measures to protect your customer data.
Trust Guard supports other standards besides PCI, such as GDPR, ISO27001, OWASP, NIS2, HIPAA and SOx. And having the Trust Guard logo on your site can help increase consumer confidence and therefore your sales. If your online store is secure, your customers should know that, right?
As a business, you are working daily to make your website prettier and better, new content, new newsletters, custom banners, new promotions and much more! Everything to appear professional and reliable and make the visitor feel good. And yet, something very important is often forgotten: security! Regardless of whether you have already purchased a website security scan, it is important that your visitors also SEE that you are concerned with the security of their (privacy sensitive) data. Show your customers with a Trust Guard logo that you take security seriously and prove with the logo that your website has actually been security tested with Trust Guard. With the engagement banner, you can create extra trust in specific places such as the shopping basket or the order button.
Did you know that on the Trust Guard certificate you can show your contact details, VAT & Chamber of Commerce number but also your Thuiswinkel.org, Becom, WebWinkelKeur, Privacy Zeker and ICT-waarborg membership? More trust = more sales; but it has to be visible to your customer!
Scan your website now for free with no obligation and protect your customers’ privacy data.
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