An SSL certificate encrypts traffic between your visitor and your server. Without it browsers show a “not secure” warning, which costs you trust before anyone reads a word.
The overwhelming majority of hacked websites were running known-vulnerable software with a patch already available. Attacks are automated and indiscriminate — they scan for old versions rather than choosing targets.
Weak credentials remain the second most common way in. This costs nothing to fix and takes an afternoon.
Everything above reduces the chance of a problem. Backups are what mean a problem is an inconvenience rather than a catastrophe.
Work in this order. The instinct is to delete things first, which destroys the evidence you need to find out how they got in.
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Yes. Browsers flag sites without it, and that warning is enough to lose visitors regardless of what you sell.
Mostly automated scans finding outdated software or weak passwords. Targeted attacks on small businesses are rare; opportunistic ones are constant.
Yes. Our plans include Imunify360 malware scanning and a server firewall.
Daily as a baseline, which we do automatically, plus a manual backup before any significant change.
Get in touch and we will help you work through it. Prevention is cheaper, but we would rather help than watch you lose the site.
A reputable one adds useful hardening. It does not replace updates, strong passwords and backups.