Security audit for your e-commerce site, in Ariège and Occitanie

Why audit now

An online shop is never "finished". PrestaShop, WooCommerce and WordPress are excellent tools, but they are also the most-attacked targets on the commerce web — precisely because they are everywhere. Attacks don't only target big brands: a local Ariège shop handling a few orders a day is just as profitable a target for an automated script, which makes no distinction between an SME and a large account.

Three families of threats keep coming back. SQL injection on older PrestaShop versions, which lets an attacker read or alter the database — your orders and your customers. Web-skimming, or "card skimming": a snippet of malicious JavaScript slipped into the checkout page that quietly copies card numbers as the customer types them, with nothing looking wrong. And WooCommerce/WordPress module or plugin flaws, where a single abandoned or poorly updated plugin opens the door to everything else.

The cost of a compromised shop goes well beyond the technical bill. You risk blacklisting by Google and browsers, loss of customer trust, a mandatory CNIL notification if personal data leaks, and sometimes suspension by your payment provider. An audit up front costs a fraction of cleaning up an already-hacked site — and of winning back lost trust.

An audit built for Ariège commerce

The Ariège has several thousand active businesses, made up mostly of micro-businesses, SMEs, artisans and shopkeepers — around Pamiers, the département's main economic hub, Foix, the préfecture, and Saint-Girons in the Couserans. Commerce here is tied to the land: producers and craftspeople selling through short supply chains, town-centre shops, businesses geared to Pyrenees tourism, spa towns and heritage. Many opened an online shop in recent years, helped by fibre now reaching almost the whole département.

That is exactly where the risk concentrates. An online shop set up and then left running — a PrestaShop or WooCommerce no one dares update for fear of "breaking everything" — is precisely the profile automated attacks look for. With no dedicated IT team, an Ariège SME often has neither the time nor the tools to know whether its site is clean — until a customer reports something odd, or payments are suspended.

Our presence in Ariège changes how we work. We understand the reality of a local business: a single site that keeps the doors open, a measured budget, no jargon. We speak French, on the ground, and explain every finding in terms you can act on — not an unreadable PDF from a distant vendor. Behind it sits over fifteen years on large-scale e-commerce platforms and payment systems, brought to an SME audit: the same rigour, sized to fit.

• A PrestaShop shop set up years ago and never updated: we check known flaws and module health before they are exploited.
• A WordPress + WooCommerce site for an Ariège producer or artisan with a dozen extensions: we flag risky or abandoned plugins and prioritise updates.
• A traffic drop or a Google "dangerous site" warning: we hunt for the malicious code, skimmer or injected page and clean the shop up.
• Before a sales peak (tourist season, holidays): we make sure payment, backups and HTTPS hold up under load and bot pressure.
• Compliance: we frame customer-data storage to meet GDPR and be ready to answer the CNIL in case of an incident.