This week, Google started marking all non-encrypted websites as “not secure” when viewed through its Chrome browser, which has about a 60 percent market share. If your firm’s website address starts with HTTP rather than HTTPS, you are impacted by this update, and your website visitors will notice. You won’t fall off the internet like some unscrupulous vendors claim, but now is a good time to follow Google’s lead, contact your web team and encrypt your website.

Google Makes Good on Its Security Promise