Does your website offer encrypted HTTPS connections to visitors? Do you use HTTPS by default for administrative logins or lead-generation forms? You may not think you need HTTPS if you just run a brochure marketing site and aren't asking for credit card information, but you might be putting both your site and your users at risk if you don't.

The end of privacy?

Until recently, most people tended to think that nobody would bother listening to their online communications – their digital traffic may not have been secure, but it was assumed to be obscure, or at least of little interest to anyone else.

But we now know that's not the case. We increasingly lead our lives online; all of our personal, professional and financial details, interests and communications take place there, information we might not want everyone else in the world to know.