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Today, website security is crucial for any business operating online. One of the most effective ways to keep your website secure is to perform periodic security scans. These scans offer numerous benefits, from proactive website security to increasing customer trust. Here we discuss the main reasons why regular security scans are essential for your business.

As an entrepreneur or director of an organization, the responsibility for the security of the website lies with you. At a time when digital threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated, ensuring online security is essential. And that is a responsibility that you cannot simply ignore.

The moment hackers at your organisation make off with privacy-sensitive data, the consequences are your responsibility - including legal ones. Yet cybersecurity within companies is still not as self-evident as a decent lock on the front door. And that while this topic deserves just as much attention.

One of the first requirements against cybercriminals is the purchase of an SSL certificate for your website. Surfing without HTTPS in the domain name is not a good practice! With the Trust Guard Vulnerability Scan, you can now view and manage the status of your SSL certificates.

WebwinkelKeur considers it important that its members have a secure webshop, and this is reflected in the WebwinkelKeur 'secure browsing' badge on the website. To make this website security possible, WebwinkelKeur has chosen to collaborate with Trust Guard, an online full-fledged website security scan for checking the technical security of the webshop. Members of WebwinkelKeur receive a 25% discount during the first year, and a standard 15% discount when renewing.

"If you look at the latest change to the privacy statement on any website, you will see that the last change often dates from early 2018: the moment that the GDPR officially replaced the Dutch Act "Wet bescherming persoonsgegevens" (Personal Data Protection Act). That shows how the GDPR lives in companies," says Jeroen Bosch van Rosenthal of DPO Consult. "Particularly in terms of a DPO, things are still a bit off."

The government-wide standardisation of IPv6 addresses is in full swing. The conversion from IPv4 to IPv6 not only entails the use of new structured address blocks, but also many improvements in the area of security. With its new scanning technology, Trust Guard offers a solution for companies and government organisations that already work with IPv6 addresses.

As more and more patient data is stored in digital files, secure access to this data is a real necessity. Not only to protect against cybercriminals, but also to ensure that only the right staff members have access to the files. That is why hospitals are obliged to carry out an audit to test the security. Trust Guard helps you to prepare and carry out this audit.

The collaboration between Safeshops and Business to You is a good example of how two organisations can strengthen each other and together provide an even more complete service. Speaking is Greet Dekocker, Managing Director at Safeshops.

Protecting personal data and monitoring data security is a good practice. Actually acting on reports immediately and taking measures if necessary is even better. It is therefore all the more important that you have access to current and clear information within your organisation.