After creating their growth plan, CMO realised that a few changes could help them reach their goals, namely, increasing security to reach PCI compliance level one hosting and increasing speed and performance across all three websites. Having each of the three websites on different platforms with separate servers made security updates and maintenance difficult to manage. They were concerned that their database and servers on their e-commerce sites wouldn’t be able to keep pace with increased traffic.
An additional challenge was the ever-evolving e-commerce security regulations. CMO wanted to achieve PCI level one compliance across all their websites so they could continue to honour a commitment to safely storing & processing client information. Keeping up-to-date with PCI-DSS requirements for all three sites was a difficult task for their IT personnel to manage alone.
The solution designed for CMO included:
The team from CMO described the following improvements: