Internet specialist VeriSign is looking to help small businesses by providing advice on how to build customer trust and confidence online, thanks to its newly created online security clinic for small businesses.
Dubbed the VeriSign SMB Internet Security Clinic, the site offers SMBs bespoke advice from VeriSign’s team of security experts on how they can enhance their websites to improve customer trust and increase sales.
Businesses can submit questions via email that will be answered directly and posted on VeriSign’s small business page so that other businesses can learn from their peers. Advice is available on a variety of issues, ranging from online security to specific technical questions on tools and technologies such as malware, Extended Validation SSL and strong authentication.
SMBs with questions on how to make their websites more secure and attractive to online shoppers can email the company as well.
“SMBs account for 99 percent of all companies in the EU, so it is vital that tailored advice is available for them as their success will act as an engine for European growth as we move out of the recession. When shopping online, many consumers automatically start with the big e-commerce portals,” said vice president and general manager for VeriSign EMEA Martin Macay.
“Therefore, SMBs need to make sure their sites give buyers the reassurance they need to avoid being forgotten,” Macay added. “With GBP 4.4 billion spent online by UK consumers in April 2010 alone, SMB owners have a big opportunity to increase their share of these e-retail profits.”
As a starting point, VeriSign compiled a series of simple steps that SMBs can take to increase consumers’ trust and confidence in their sites, including scan the business site for malware, encrypting customers’ personal details, using a trust mark and displaying popular trust symbols, displaying visible contact details and protecting user accounts with identity protection software.
“The VeriSign SMB Internet Security Clinic gives those responsible for e-commerce reassurance that their sites will be secure, ideas on how to promote this to buyers and unrivalled access to VeriSign’s team of experts for advice,” Macka said.
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