Hackers look to make money—and credit cards are a great way to do this. Hackers look at targets like Magento because it's so widely used. If they find a vulnerability, they can likely deploy this across many websites to increase their gains.
It is probable that there are discovered vulnerabilities waiting for the "perfect" time to be released.
Remember that these exploits are not the type of the past, where the home page is defaced with obnoxious pictures. These are subtle with the hacker (or their software) making repeated visits to the server, obtaining more information on each attempt. You will likely find out months or years down the road—when it's too late. Having to contact your customers thanks to a data breach is not a pleasant task.
Before you agree to such a project, you need to know what’s involved in the upgrade. How much does it cost? What is the timeline? What are the potential ramifications?
The first step is to perform an audit on your Magento installation. You can read more here. While we can go to a comprehensive level, we can limit the scope to investigate the code aspects to a minimum.
You will get a document that shines a light on your system's internals—in a way you haven’t seen before. We systematically review every aspect and document findings with an easy-to-understand summary. This document also has an estimate for the upgrade.
Once you review and agree to the scope and estimate, we will sign the agreement and kick off the project. Your project manager will schedule regular cadence meetings to ensure we are on the same page regarding priorities and questions.
Our development team will be hard at work. If something goes sideways, we will let you know if something goes sideways as quickly as possible. We regularly push updates so that you can follow along with the progress.
We regularly review our work to ensure all aspects function as expected.
We will let you know when the upgrade is complete (but it will be no surprise as you get scheduled status updates). At this point, you can review all features to ensure they work as expected.
Once you present your sign-off on the project, we set a time to release this.
We allocate some time to ensure any post-release issues are dealt with quickly.
Your website will now comply with Payment Card Industries Rule 6.1. If this was the only disqualification, you are currently in compliance with the PCI rules.
You will have the latest feature set:
- Page Builder: Adobe’s tool to manage content. This allows you to click/drag and edit content in your browser—and see what it looks like in real-time.
- Multi-source inventory: Adobe Commerce tracks the difference between quantity available and quantity on hand. You can fulfill the list from multiple locations.
- B2B Workflow Approvals: companies can establish order approvals at a management level.
- Live Search/Product Recommendations: these are powered by Adobe Sensei, an artificial intelligence toolset. Instead of paying significant money for these capabilities, you can have it on your website in short order.
- Walmart/Ebay integrations: all Adobe Commerce editions now have access to direct connections to Walmart and eBay.
Of course, this upgrade brings hundreds of performance improvements. Adobe Commerce 2.4 is faster than 2.2. This means you can pass more orders through your website, and customers can do it faster.
Security is another aspect. We upgrade the core Adobe Commerce and all 3rd-party modules. This represents hundreds of security fixes to ensure your website is as secure as possible.
Our mission is to provide the best service in the industry. Here’s how we do it:
- Every one of our developers is certified. We do this to live up to our training. SwiftOtter has helped thousands of developers achieve Adobe Commerce certification. The net result is a highly-qualified team.
- But it’s even better. We hire the best developers no matter where they are in the world—and we pay them well. Our developer roster is second to none.
You benefit in that we fix the root cause of problems. We don’t play games of whack-a-mole. We don’t do bandaids (but that’s your choice).