Diving into eCommerce 3rd-Party Integrations and Payment Gateways with Dre Armeda and Lee Blue

Today, we are doing Episode 38 and the fourth and final in our eCommerce & Security Series. We talk with Dre Armeda, co-founder of Sucuri.net, the sponsor for this series, and Lee Blue of Cart66.com.
Today we are lucky to have this powerful duo take us into 3rd-party integrations and payment gateways. We explore tips and insights to ensure that all of your customers’ data is secure and that your site can safely handle this information without you having to be concerned about compromises.  This is a must-listen-to show for anyone who runs an online store, as well as people or agencies that build and support WordPress eCommerce sites.
We chatted about:
The eCommerce site data beyond credit card numbers that need to be protected and whyWhat an SSL certificate is and its role in eCommerce securityThe differences between accepting PayPal and accepting credit card payments from a security and PCI compliance perspectiveThe types of products that can affect how you choose to process the payments on your siteWhich eCommerce features have the biggest impact on securitySome tools to help shops owners in terms of overall eCommerce security
Thanks to Our Podcast Sponsor: Sucuri.net
Transcript
Bob Dunn: Hey everyone, and welcome to our show. Bob Dunn here, also known as BobWP on the web. Today is episode 38, the fourth and final show of our four-part series on security and eCommerce. Today we are rounding out the series on the topic of third party integrations and payment gateways. Like the other three shows, this is a huge area. We’re going to make our best attempt to give you a birdseye view, but also enough details to really help you with your online store.
To do this, we are bringing in the heavy hitters, who are going to drop those knowledge bombs and round off this series with even more information to help you with the security of your online store. First we bring back Dre Armeda from our sponsor, Sucuri.net, who has guided us through these last three episodes and has been nothing but an excellent sport in spending this much time with me. Hey Dre, are you ready for this last one?
Dre Armeda: Well, not after you told me I got to drop some knowledge bombs. I’m a little nervous now, but we’re here.
Bob Dunn: Well, you’ve done a few already, so, I think you’re on a roll. What I’m going to ask Dre to give us a bit of a quick recap of the last three shows, and then I want him to introduce our second guest.
Our Last Three Security-focused Shows
Dre Armeda: Aw, snap, so we got a guest. This is going to get pretty awesome. I’m excited. Bob, thanks for having me again. We’re certainly glad to be a part of this. I think this is a really good value add to any of your listeners and folks out there. We’ve covered some pretty strong topics as it comes to security with eCommerce and so on.
Episode One: Website Security Threats
Bob, we started out a few weeks ago talking about today’s website security threats. I think that was a great standing ground point to really kick this off, give people an idea of some of the things that they are inherently dealing with when they are online. I introduced the notion of reflective attacks, which I think is super important to understand because they are on the rise. I used the example of hacking, say, a website through their DNS, so maybe redirecting a site, malvertising, if you will, without even having to penetrate the actual website defenses. Going out through a third party service that needs, that’s integral to keeping the site up, attacking that, taking it down, availability is gone. That’s a big issue that we’re seeing on the rise.
Attackers are targeting not just a website’s audience these days, but they’re really starting to focus on targeting the website owner and their infrastructure. Now this, these top ten l