Secure Your Customer Data: Here’s How

1. Get your Web systems checked by a security expert familiar with SQL and other common online vulnerabilities. “Talk with the people who set up your e-commerce site and determine if they’re aware of this and similar vulnerabilities. Have they checked for them specifically?” Cobb asks.

Based on their responses, you may feel secure about your site, or you may decide to hire an outside expert to do a security audit of your site. “This may be especially important if you’ve had, say, a neighbor who took a few Web courses design your site,” says Cobb.