5 Tips for Keeping Your Website and Customer Data Safe During the Holidays

5. Scan your website for vulnerabilities. According to a study by Websense, 79.9 percent of websites containing malicious code were legitimate sites that had been compromised. Merchants should closely monitor whether their sites are participating in the spread of malware. This can happen through many factors that aren't under your direct control, such as comments from users and links included by your hosting provider. Qualys has created a free service that your webmaster can use to automatically run a daily check on your websites to alert you to any issues.