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What is McAfee Secure to Business Owners?

When your customers are buying products or services from your website, they want to know that they aren’t going to get ripped off. After all, customers who have had bad experiences buying products over the internet before are hardly likely to risk coughing up the cash without receiving anything in return again, are they? So it’s important, if you want your website to live long and prosper, that you provide your customers with piece of mind – ensuring that their money is safe is the only way you’ll get customers coming back time and time again.

McAfee Secure is one of the best and most comprehensive products out there when it comes to protecting your customers’ interests (and money), so here’s some need-to-know info before you choose McAfee Secure for your commercial website.

McAfee Secure is different to most other products on the market because it works remotely – you don’t need to download any software, upload any hardware, or anything else of the sort. Instead, if you choose McAfee Secure to protect and strengthen your site, it will be scanned every single day in order to check for any security blind-spots or potential threats to the security of your site and your customers. The minute any security issue is detected, you’ll get a notification with clear, jargon-free advice about what your problem is and the best way to solve it, meaning that you can act quickly and efficiently to fix any problems which may cost you customers.

McAfee Secure also puts you in control because of its web-based client portal. The portal allows you, as the website owner, to not only view the results of your security scans and to identify any weak spots, but also to demand scans exactly when you want them to happen. That way, you can address any complaints or concerns about the security of your site as soon as they arise, which ticks all the boxes on the customer service checklist. In addition, you can also schedule future scans in order to ensure your site is safe, even if you’re not available to check up on it.

Of course, most of this would be redundant if your customers didn’t know you were putting all of this effort in. Which is why, if you choose McAfee Secure, your website will display a logo which broadcasts to your customers the fact that you have chosen to use one of the biggest and best data protection and security packages on the market. And that kind of legitimacy is priceless.

 

Article by Connor Sephton, 12th October 2011. Content correct at the date of publication.