What is National Safer Ecommerce Day?
Safer Ecommerce Day is a day to raise awareness about online commerce risk and best practices for safer ecommerce. This day will celebrate online marketplaces, associations, and entities that are working together to make ecommerce safer, whether through technology, solutions, regulations, or initiatives.
On this day, we will promote the concept and goal of making the internet a safe and trusted place to shop, sell, and engage through educational programming that includes webinars, podcast interviews, expert panels, and publications. We are partnering with key entities and thought leaders in ecommerce to share information on current trends. We will cover regulatory developments, dark web patterns and criminal tactics, and how to protect marketplaces and consumers from the risks of online commerce.
Why was National Safer Ecommerce Day created?
The past few years have seen a proliferation of online financial crime conducted via ecommerce channels. We are no longer dealing with individual threats – today’s bad actors operate in collaborative criminal networks that prey on victims and organizations using highly sophisticated methods.
This unified threat landscape has the potential to negatively impact everyone in the ecommerce ecosystem: buyers, sellers, banks and acquirers that enable payment processing, and marketplace platforms where legitimate entities conduct business.
These crimes also fund bigger crimes such as human trafficking and terrorism, making it a serous global problem.
We believe that awareness and education are the first steps to creating a safer ecommerce for all!
How should National Safer Ecommerce Day be observed?
Safer Ecommerce Day will be observed with an online awareness campaign leading up to a culminating event that will feature educational programs led by handpicked experts on ecommerce trends, regulations, and more.